Category: New York City Ballet
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Finally …
New York City Ballet announced today that Jon Stafford has been named to the position of Artistic Director of BOTH NYCB and SAB. An excellent choice, we believe. In fact, our first choice from…
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Hitchcock by Balanchine
Variations Pour Une Porte et Un Soupir 2/26A new set of Jaws chewed its way into the House of Balanchine last night. Debuting in the role of the all-powerful, seductively sinister Door in Variations Pour Une Porte et Un Soupir, Sara…
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Bouder’s on the pity-pot
How disappointing that Ashley Bouder has elected to act like Carabosse because she was not allowed to reign over the opening night of Sleeping Beauty and had to defer to a brilliant and beautiful…
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observations 2/20
This afternoon New York City Ballet filed its answer and a motion to dismiss the Waterbury complaint which it expects to be heard in court on April 22. The company has filed only on…
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NYCB 2/13 – Sleeping Beauty opening night
Love worked out well for the young couple on the first night of New York City Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty, the 28-year-old beauty of a production created by Peter Martins after Petipa and which…
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Ater-ballet
Ater: a Latin adjective that means dark, gloomy, black, dismal, malicious, or unlucky. New York City Ballet served up a heap of that this past week on the George Balanchine Stage at Lincoln…
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observations 1/31
Haglund'eelers are snapping up the tickets to the February 19 screening of the Royal Ballet's La Bayadere at Landmark Theater Cinemas on W. 57th St. We all recall how the RB's Swan Lake sold…
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NYCB Week 1
Serenade, Mozartiana, Tsch Piano Concerto No. 2Somebody’s out of shape. A month and a half of holiday eating and then – wham bam! – it’s right into a string of seven performances at NYCB without so much as an episode…
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NYCB 1/22 Myths & legendary dancing open the season
Apollo, besides being the god of music, poetry, truth, healing, and sunlight, is also the god of foreigners and the protector of refugees. We thank him for taking time out of his impossibly busy…
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Forward looking
It seems that Haglund has tickets for every performance of the first week of NYCB's winter season. In fact, at least eleven times during the first two weeks he’ll be ensconced in his favorite…
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NYCB Nutcracker 12/9 & 12/16 eves
The big, fat Rat King waddled out waving his gilded sword and then paused to pat down his lacquered helmet of baby-poop-yellow hair. He hollered, “I’m going to shut this whole place down,…
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New York City Center
Balanchine: The City Center Years 10/31Halloween is one of those unofficial holidays when people pretend to be something they are not. It’s very big in New York – as is St. Patrick’s Day when everyone pretends to be Irish…
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observations 10/31
While having just spotted the citizen in the West Village who always marches in the Halloween Parade as the guy from the movie The Birds who is being chased by a flock of black…
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More hypocrisy from the NYT
Here we go again…Two NYT stringers are wailing and moaning like scorned women who want attention and screaming how the world should be while possessing no facts, no evidence, no journalistic standard of justification, nothing of substantive…
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NYCB 10/14
Joaquin de Luz – From one dream to the nextWhen you can dance for a quarter of century and finish your career in white tights performing in a technically exposing role like Theme and Variations in which you can still do a series…