Category: New York City Ballet
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observations 5-24
ABT's week of La Bayadere is on TDF at the moment. Don't miss Wednesday night May 30th with Sarah Lane, Herman Cornejo and Skylar Brandt. Discounted tickets for Whipped Cream at the Met and…
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NYCB – Robbins 100 continues
Oh my goodness. There was more ritual packed into Tuesday than you’ll ever find among The Cats of Thistle Hill. (Last night in NYCB's 4th Ring, Haglund observed a balleto-felineo-mane cuddling up with his…
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NYCB Gala 5/3
Playing dress-up never goes out of style. Especially at the New York City Ballet Spring Gala where dressing up can mean up to thousands of dollars. Dressing up can also mean dressing down or…
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observations 5-1
At this time every year, we become so disgusted and frustrated with ABT's bald-faced cast lies and manipulation that we need an exorcism – an ABT exorcism. Well, Haglund has found just what we…
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NYCB Week 1
Like discovering new treasure every dayMany of us sit in the theater night after night wishing we could see this or that dancer in a new important role that s/he seems on the cusp of being ready to dance.…
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NYCB Opening Night 4/24
Maria “the Miraculous” Kowroski and Abi Stafford opened New York City Ballet’s spring season with a performance of Concerto Barocco in which all of the dancers looked like thoroughbreds primed and ready to Run…
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observations 3-15
Well, this is exciting. NYCB has announced its casting for the Kennedy Center performances March 27th through April 1. Obviously, the company is priming us to come down from NYC by the busloads to…
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observations 3-14
There’s good stuff on Broadway this spring. We’re just getting around to a little raving about the new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre that counts among…
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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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“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,…
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observations 2-8
It sure is good news to our ears that NYCB will include Symphony in C during its residency at SPAC this summer. That bodes well for the fall season. The SPAC season is creating…
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New York City Ballet 2/2 & 2/3 evening
During the second week of its winter season, NYCB soldiered on but with a few bruises that require bandages. Most of the leading dancers of the company have held their chins high and are…
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New York City Ballet
Chaconne shines a light on a few things 1/30New York City Ballet’s winter season continued into its second week with the All Balanchine Program that included changes in cast. Here we were again in iconic Farrelldom enjoying the poetic, musical geometry of…