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ABT Swan Lake 6/11 mat, 6/14 mat & eve
Holy Hiss & Spit!Those ABT Odiles are a bunch of sharp-elbowed bitches, ain’t they? We’ll get to them, but it’s more important to first highlight the initial revelation of the season — one that we have…
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6/7 Evening
School of American Ballet Workshop PerformanceSo this happened. Saturday about 1pm Haglund was on a crowded northbound M11 bus on 10th Ave coming home from the gym. As the bus approached the 34th St stop, he was…
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NYCB 5/30
Puck in the net for the Stanley Cup winNotwithstanding Taylor Stanley’s impetuous, scene-stealing Puck, New York City Ballet’s Friday evening performance of Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream caused more wince than wonderment. Sure, the kids were cute enough. But how long…
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Andrew Veyette’s Farewell Performance 5/25
He went a little too crazy.For the past decade of his 25 year career with New York City Ballet, Andrew Veyette has kept us on the edge of our seat. “What is he doing?! OMG, doesn’t he know…
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Rumors of Haglund’s demise have been greatly exaggerated
NYCB’s Starship lands for the Spring SeasonSometimes life gets in the way of ballet and blogging. Here it is the end of the fourth week of NYCB’s spring season, and Haglund is just firing up. He saw some performances…
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observations 4/11
In a stunning but artistically important move, Cassandra Trenary will leave ABT to join the Vienna State Ballet as a principal dancer working under the guidance of Alessandra Ferri who is about to…