Category: New York City Ballet
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NYCB 4/23 matinee
Utterly brilliantJust saying – if that was a final salute to a role yesterday, it was one that the Balletomane Brigade will never forget. To be clear, we have no information to the effect that…
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NYCB 4/18
Ave Maria!What is there left to do but hail Maria Kowroski after one of her most glorious adagios in Symphony in C last evening as NYC Ballet opened its spring season with a blessed all-Balanchine…
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observations 3-3
ABT has posted some Whipped Cream costume photos on its website. There are some very imaginative designs including the costume in which Justin Souriau-Levine seems to have graduated from the Little Mouse in Nutcracker…
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NYCB – All Robbins Program 2/21
In the winter season’s all-Jerome Robbins program of Glass Pieces, Moves, and The Concert, the endlessly different postures of humanity are seen marching in and out of light or under umbrellas which shield them…
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Promotions at NYCB!
How fabulous to hear of eight more promotions at NYCB! Russell Janzen to principal. Sara Adams, Harrison Ball, Emilie Gerrity, Joseph Gordon, Unity Phelan, Troy Schumacher and Indiana Woodward to soloist. Peter Martins could…
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NYCB Sleeping Beauty 2/16
Haglund is rushing off to the Orchid Show today at the New York Botanical Garden, but he needs to pause to gush over the beautiful new rose that debuted last evening in New York…
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observations 2-15
New York City Ballet wants to remind everyone about the 2-part PBS special that airs this Friday, February 17 at 9PM and next Friday, February 24th. A performance will be presented from last summer's…
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NYCB – Sleeping Beauty 2/8 & 2/9
High level wind shears ain’t got nothin’ on those women in the New York City Ballet corps de ballet. Whoooooosh! When they went flying downstage in their lines of ballonés in the Vision Scene…
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NYCB – 1/28 matinee
We're catching up on a few observations before reluctantly leaving this beloved sanctuary city for DC tomorrow to see the brand new Real McCOO in the early matinee – that’s the Real McCoy Odette/Odile,…
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NYC Ballet 1/26
Pop on pointe & in sneakers; Crystal Pepsi in the New Age of alternative bubbly balletWho remembers Crystal Pepsi? Not many. More importantly, who remembers what it tasted like? Fewer. It never was the “clear alternative” to what everyone was drinking. It was a bad idea that a great…
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New York City Ballet 1/22
Finishing the week with novices and expertsNew York City Ballet’s Winter Season Week One concluded on Sunday, George Balanchine’s birthday, with an interesting choice of All-Stravinsky programing that featured (1) young novices who are advancing through the company’s feeder school,…
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NYCB – All Balanchine 1/18 & 1/19
New York City Ballet’s All Balanchine program on Wednesday and Thursday was made up of two of the master’s best and one of his least best of those in the active repertory. We’ll dwell…
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NYC Ballet 1/17
La Sonnambula, Prodigal Son, Firebird
Like moths to a flamethe masses flew toward the opening night of New York City Ballet for a program comprised of ballets that did not exemplify Balanchine’s prized esoteric black & white geometry – his unique left-brain creative…
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The Qool Train
On Sunday, January 1, 2017, Manhattan’s East Side Art Train smoothly waltzed up its sparkling clean, brand spanking new tracks toward 96th Street along Second Avenue in a wedding dance of sorts with well-wishers…
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observations 12-30
Some potentially hopeful stirrings in the ABT Met Season casting have been sighted by our eagle-eyed Haglund'eelers. The Saturday evening Giselle cast has been relieved of its low-end Albrecht which opens up the possibility…