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NYCB Stravinsky/Balanchine 3/1
Stravinsky’s Rite of BombogenesisIn case anyone missed last night's NYCB performance – At the climax of the night-long fest, Tiler Peck could no longer contain herself while dancing in Symphony in Three Movements and launched a rocket…
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NYCB 2/24 Matinee
So good that it’ll ruin youWe’re talking, of course, about the Stravinsky/Balanchine program that opened Saturday afternoon and has four more performances next week. This is why we live in New York! These are the standards that make it…
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New dance exhibit at the Whitney Museum
Coming to the Whitney Museum of American Art on the West Side of Manhattan is a new dance-focused exhibit of Nick Mauss works entitled Transmissions. From the Whitney: For this exhibition, Nick Mauss explores…
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observations 2-20
There’s quite a bit of interesting, wide-ranging stuff to report. Irina Dvorovenko will star as “Elizaveta Grushinskaya – The still-beautiful, world-famous, about-to-retire Prima Ballerina” in New York City Center Encores presentation of Grand Hotel,…
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“It was all rigged. The system was rigged,” cried
Donald TrumpThe New York TimesNew York City Ballet has completed its internal personnel investigation of complaints of abuse recently made by former employees against Peter Martins concerning incidents they described happening decades ago. The New York Times which…
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NYCB 2/13 Romeo + Juliet + other stuff
In the short span of a week, the New York Times has published two more diatribes maligning the retired head of New York City Ballet, Peter Martins. This, of course, is, always has been,…