Author: Haglund
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ABT 10/29 — We’ve already met. . .
Artistic Director Susan Jaffe appeared before the curtain and began the evening with a brief historical talk that emphasized that ABT does new, innovative works to keep the art form “alive.” The evening went…
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ABT 10/25 Mat & Eve
It’s never easy to ramp up to negotiate the down ramp in Natalia Makarova’s staging of The Kingdom of the Shades. It just takes constant work and dedication. The seemingly uncomplicated step-arabesque-plie becomes torturous…
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observations 10/22
Haglund just got back from Wayne McGregor’s new ballet “Beckett’s Endgame.” The music by Dustbin Mama was singularly beautiful for its 90 minute long beat of the hamgam. The existential palette for the scenery…
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ABT 10/17 & 10/19
It was an exhausting weekend. Sandwiched between two performances of beloved 20th Century ballets made when the world was embroiled in conflict and revolutions, there was the No Kings March to protest the war…
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observations 10/20
A dear reader alerted us to Wiener Staatsoper’s production of Alexei Ratmansky’s Of Love And Rage being produced there under the title Kallirhoe. The performance is available for free streaming for two more days.…
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ABT 10/15 — All Tharp Program
American Ballet Theatre’s opening night program, Twyla @ 60, is a misnomer. Twyla is really 84 — a thumping, jumping, pumping, romping 84; 84 and wanting more, as they say. But she’s been making dances for…
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observations 10/10
It’s tiring. Every three years we have to go through this tug of war between NYCB dancers and management over the contract. There are practical solutions that NYCB’s board, along with other nonprofit boards,…
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NYCB 10/9 — Waiting for Ratmansky
Beckett told Haglund to revisit Voices, an experimental effort by Alexei Ratmansky for New York City Ballet, first performed in 2020. Rather than fitting ballet steps to music, Ratmansky attached them to a mostly…
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NYCB 10/1 — The Goldberg Variations, Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
You know, a piano performance of Bach’s The Goldberg Variations can range from 39 minutes to 92 minutes depending on whether all the repeats are played. Some pianists have skipped the repeats to make…
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NYCB 9/25 questionable taste continues
It’s hard to remember when we last wrote that the best thing on the New York City Ballet’s repertory program was a ballet by Peter Martins, but Thursday night was one of those times.…
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NYCB 9/17 — Square Dance, Episodes, Western Symphony
It is almost as though New York City Ballet is trying to use trickling Balanchine programing to falsely strengthen the river-flow of mostly sub-par contemporary programing that it wants to wash over the audience.…
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NYCB opens with good dancing on a ho-hum program
The movers lost an entire crate of Haglund’s most prized shoes. This world being what it is these days, we’re positive they were stolen. If anyone sees the Bang-up Job Moveristas pedaling their rose-colored carts…
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Landlord white is not our favorite color
Thanks for stopping by. We got to our new home safe and sound, but it was a very bumpy trip. It appears all posts have been saved. We’ll be painting, wallpapering and moving stuff…