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Martha Clarke talks about Cornejo, Ferri & Chéri
Martha Clarke describes her first glimpse of Herman Cornejo and how her work with him and Alessandra Ferri came about. Her brief discussion of Chéri already brings mist to the eyes. It's hard to…
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ABT 11/1
Bach it to me, baby.What a terrific and exhilarating revival of Twyla Tharp’s Bach Partita last night with sensational violin soloist Charles Yang. Wow, can this young man ever lean his weight into Bach for a powerfully stirring…
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ABT – Opening Night – 10/30
Tornado funnels at dinner. It’s hard to know where to start when it comes to describing ABT’s opening night performance of its fall season at the Koch Theater. Parts of it should be erased…
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Uh-oh.
Vishneva weighs in on Tsiskaridze’s appointmentDiana Vishneva: "I very much hope that this is not the end of a great school," Vishneva, a People's Artist of Russia, the country's highest artistic award, told the RIA Novosti news agency. "There…
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Suddenly needs a job
Altynai Asylmuratova has been replaced by Ulyana Lopatkina as the Artistic Director of the Vaganova Academy. It's an ugly story that we won't go into here, but you can read about it. So it…
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San Francisco Ballet 10/24
Cinderella – All dressed up with somewhere
to go, but. . .. . . not enough horsepower pulling the old carriage to get there. To be perfectly frank and utterly truthful – yes, rare as that is – whenever Haglund comes face-to-face with a brand…