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Category: New York City Ballet

  • observations 6/23

    The delayed All Balanchine Program from Lincoln Center at Home's Dance Week is now available. It features New York City Ballet's performances of the fourth movement of Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Concerto Barocco excerpt, The Man…

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  • observations 6/18

    New York City Ballet announced today that it has cancelled the fall and Nutcracker seasons in the face of COVID-19. Not good news, but expected. More digital programing is in the works. That's good…

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  • When the rich cry poor

    It seems that NYCB may have decided that it doesn't want to dance tonight, either, on Lincoln Center Dance Week. So, we can watch "Turnout with Tiler" with NYCB's Tiler Peck or we can…

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  • Right here, right now

    A Midsummer Night's Dream 1986 http://lincolncenter.org/lincoln-center-at-home/show/a-midsummer-nightrsquos-dream-1986-244

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  • observations 5/29

    NYCB stages its final performance of the Digital Spring Season tonight at 8PM. The program features works from its 21st Century Choreographers bills including Peck's Easy and excerpts from dances by Tanowitz, Ratmansky, Reisen,…

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  • Reopening

    As we already wrote somewhere in the comments, the Brooklyn Nets are dipping their toes back into training. They are conducting training sessions at the new HSS Training Center in Sunset Park. The Hospital…

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  • observations 5/26

    Coming up this evening on NYCB's digital spring season is Donizetti Variations with Ashley Bouder and Andrew Veyette from January 28, 2015. Let's hope that NYCB extends and ramps up its digital offerings over…

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  • observations 5/24

    Today Governor Cuomo encouraged New York professional sports teams to start their training camps. Let's find out how they are going to do that and how it can apply to our two New York…

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  • observations 5/22

    Tonight's NYCB Digital Season offering is an all-Wheeldon program of Liturgy and Carousel (A dance). Maria Kowroski and Jared Angle are featured in the first; Lauren Lovette, Tyler Angle, Emilie Gerrity, Peter Walker, Kristen…

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  • observations 5/19

    Coming up this evening at 8pm is the NYCB digital season presentation of Balanchine's Diamonds with Sara Mearns and Russell Janzen and the extraordinarily beautiful Diamonds corps de ballet. The performance from September 2019…

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  • observations 5/9

    Coming up tomorrow, Sunday 5/10 from Mariinsky TV: Raymonda Choreography by Marius Petipa (1898), revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev (1948) Conductor: Valery Gergiev Raymonda: Viktoria TereshkinaJean de Brienne: Xander ParishAbderakhman: Konstantin ZverevClemence: Yekaterina ChebykinaHenrietta:…

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  • observations 5/4

    Coming up this week from NYCB's digital spring season: Tuesday @ 8PM Rubies from Jewels with Megan Fairchild, Gonzalo Garcia, and Mira Nadon dancing the principal roles. Friday @ 8PM Concerto DSCH featuring Sara…

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  • NYCB Digital Spring Season

    Coming up from NYCB on their website, YouTube channel, and Facebook page: April 21 8PM — Allegro Brilliante w/Tiler Peck and Andrew Veyette filmed on January 18, 2017 April 24 8PM — Rotunda (Justin…

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  • NYCB cancels its Spring Season

    Unhappy, but what can anybody do? We'll all live but it won't be a very happy spring. Meanwhile, companies begging for money doesn't sit very well at a time like this — at least…

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  • Most of the votes are in

    It has been so stressful waiting for the official results of the New Hampshire Democratic Primary tonight. Everyone knows that the Airedale Terrier deserves Best in Show, but the favorite of the voters seems…

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