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ABT Sylvia 7/8 and 7/9 Matinee
It was like going through the dessert line twice. Oh my goodness. You know that $35,000 chocolate pudding that Chef Marc Guibert throws together with caviar, high end chocolate and gold, and then…
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ABT Giselle 6/21 Mat & Eve
She keeps forgiving himForgiveness used to work. That’s what Giselle reminds us. It was sometimes a path to realizing one's deepest single love. Not so these days, though. "So long” is an easy no-fault click away…
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observations 6/20
Haglund didn’t attend ABT's Woolf Works this week. He’s not much of a fan of either Virginia Woolf or Wayne McGregor; so there wasn’t much point in suffering through the work again. Virginia…
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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…