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Joseph Phillips in Vladivostok, Russia
The State Primorsky Opera and Ballet TheaterGerald Ford Foundation It's been almost 40 years since President Ford gave the coat off his back to Leonid Brezhnev during the 1974 SALT II negotiations in Vladivostok, Russia. The two probably didn't discuss…
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NYCB – fall season final week
Well, here it is, the end of NYCB's fall season and Haglund has a little collection of Playbills on the coffee table that need discussing. It's not that he's been lazy; it's that so…
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Mariinsky Swan Lake casting for Wash DC 2014
As we know, subject to change in a big way – but here it is: Tue., Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. Fri., Jan. 31 at 7:30 p.m. Sun., Feb. 2 at 1:30 p.m.Viktoria Tereshkina,…
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ABT declares artistic bankruptcy
In Kevin McKenzie's updated and re-imagined production of Giselle for the spring Met season, Giselle is a classically-impoverished equinerina and Albrecht makes gay porn. Some of the worst crap-casting ever makes ABT's 2014 Spring…
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observations 10/7
There's a new brief clip for the NYCB/AOL "television" program citi.ballet that was uploaded this morning at on.aol.com. It's about pointe shoes, which is fine, but Haglund hopes that the dancers will learn to…
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NYCB 10/5 Matinee
Leggz Kowroski’s Swords of SexSo much to talk about, so little time. Haglund's got to spend the rest of the weekend revving up his new iPhone that came yesterday. Seriously, when you register your prints on the home…