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NYCB 1/21
Winter season opens — sometimes a bit too chillWhile Haglund sat here composing this review WQXR washed the airwaves with the sublime beauty of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings. Suddenly he realized what was missing from last evening’s opening performance of the…
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Well thank goodness that’s over
Thinking back over the years, it's hard to recall a lot of NYCB dancers who made a public hoopla about a role that they retired. The simple grace that Maria Kowroski showed in…
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Merry Christmas from Haglund’s Heel
We had a complete changing of the guard this past year. Meet Finale a/k/a Gala Grand Finale Sugarplum Fairy. Five months old. Born in a junkyard at the side of a…
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ABT Crime and Punishment 10/31
When the ballet requires super titles— or a heavy lean on another artist's reputation or gimmicky angst & yank choreography of the type that neither William Forsythe nor Jorma Elo could make stick, it’s time to reassess the campaign…
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ABT Fall Season
What’s old is new againThe saying in the world of antique furniture is that refinishing a museum-quality piece knocks the value out of it. It is the preservation of the artist’s original work that is important, not…
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Great sadness
NYCB Conductor Clotilde Otranto. RIP. Legacy.com