Category: New York City Ballet
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NYCB 2/27–Diamond District Fraudulent Swap
A crime has been committed. New York City Ballet has gone full-frontal Trump with its gaudy, hideous re-design of Madame Karinska’s revered costumes for Balanchine’s Diamonds. What a way to destroy a tradition of…
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The Aurora we’ve been waiting for
After having our hearts broken three years ago when then-soloist Emma Von Enck was inexplicably passed over for casting as Aurora in New York City Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty, we finally emerged from the…
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NYCB Sleeping Beauty
When Good meets Evil at the ballet, usually Good wins out. But Wednesday night, Ashley Hod’s Carabosse nearly ran away with the show until she went up in smoke & sparklers after witnessing a…
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NYCB – The King’s thing is tiny
In Alexei Ratmansky’s terrific new ballet, The Naked King, which premiered Thursday evening at New York City Ballet, the King’s thing is so tiny that it got lost behind the tiniest fig leaf. No…
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NYCB 1/29 & 1/30
In case some of you titology-oriented H.H. readers were theorizing about the paratextual elements in Justin Peck’s new ballet The Wind-Up and whether the title could possibly refer to Peck “winding up” his tenure…
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NYCB 1/20 “Tradition is the future”
“Tradition is the future” was the spirit inhabiting the opening performance of New York city Ballet’s winter season last evening.
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observations 11/26
You know, Giving Tuesday is coming up. This year it’s on December 2nd. Nearly every non-profit organization appeals for donations including New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Let’s take a brief look…
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observations 11/15
So much casting has come out this week for various runs, but it’s missing important names. Why aren’t we seeing Ashley Hod and Jules Mabie cast as NYCB’s Sugarplum Fairy and Her Cavalier? Where…
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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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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…
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NYCB 2/27
New swan, new hopeNot many people know that the Iowa River which runs through the middle of the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City has long been home to a population of trumpeter swans. Most…