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ABT – Manon 6/2 & 6/3
Manon just turned forty last March. How this masterpiece came about is compressed into a few fascinating pages in Jann Perry’s biography of choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, Different Drummer, which Haglund has been trying to…
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ABT – Coppelia 5/30, 5/31 mat & eve
In a span of 26½ hours, Haglund sat through 7½ hours of Coppelia. He’s not complaining, though, because those 7½ hours included 7 minutes of the most divine Prayer variation that he expects ever…
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ABT is dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century
Thanks to Robin for the early morning alert about ABT's new YouTube channel. It just went up 16 hours ago. The one video so far is an introductory promo about the company. It is…
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observations 5/30
Three ABT Coppelias and a NYCB rep program equal one crowded weekend calendar. Check back here on Sunday for a blog post unless something earth shattering happens that keeps Haglund up all night blogging.…
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Update to the post below
The owner of the bootleg video that ABT proudly misappropriated for its own sales pitch of Ms. Smirnova was offended and yanked the video from all but "private" users. ABT finally has taken a…
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Free kittens from ABT
Anyone who buys a ticket to see ABT's guest artists this week in La Bayadere will receive a FREE KITTEN! Buy two tickets to see the guest artists, get two kittens and a coupon…