Category: New York City Ballet
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NYCB 2/19
Swan Lake — the funnies versionBlondie & Dagwood, Marmaduke, Little Orphan Annie, L’il Abner, Barney Google — just a few of the colorful Sunday funnies that came to mind during the opening Swan Lake performance. We don’t often…
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NYCB 2/5
NYCB celebrates Maria TallchiefBesides all the blissfully clear dancing in the performances of Scotch Symphony, Sylvia: Pas de Deux, and Firebird, all of which Balanchine created for Maria Tallchief, one other thing was crystal clear: he…
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NYCB 2/6
Paquita 2.0New York City Ballet is known for stripping down classics to their essential elements and compressing them for their always-on-the-go audience who only has so much time it can devote to going to…
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NYCB 1/29
New Combinations program not very new at allWhile watching the strange little promo of Justin Peck’s new dance which was running on the screens in the theater lobby, we were reminded how his sloppy hunched-over shoulders, shuffling feet, and hanging-open…
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A Massive Congratulations to Miriam Miller
on her promotion to principal dancer at NYCB. We knew this outcome would take a good amount of time to be realized, and we fretted over whether the pandemic would stall or kill her…
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NYCB 1/24
Danses Concertantes, The Cage, Concertino,
Stravinsky Violin ConcertoDuring the second week of New York City Ballet’s Winter Season, the company presented masterpieces by Balanchine and Robbins and a couple of filler pieces with qualities that compensated for less rewarding choreography.…
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NYCB 1/21
Winter season opens — sometimes a bit too chillWhile Haglund sat here composing this review WQXR washed the airwaves with the sublime beauty of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings. Suddenly he realized what was missing from last evening’s opening performance of the…
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Well thank goodness that’s over
Thinking back over the years, it's hard to recall a lot of NYCB dancers who made a public hoopla about a role that they retired. The simple grace that Maria Kowroski showed in…
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Merry Christmas from Haglund’s Heel
We had a complete changing of the guard this past year. Meet Finale a/k/a Gala Grand Finale Sugarplum Fairy. Five months old. Born in a junkyard at the side of a…
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Great sadness
NYCB Conductor Clotilde Otranto. RIP. Legacy.com
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NYCB 10/10
Balanchine + Ratmansky – both in top formThursday night’s Balanchine + Ratmansky program capped off the fall season like a royal's fascinator. Oh my gosh, watching this new generation fashion the masterworks onto their crowns — re-tooling the tulle, as…
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NYC Ballet Gala 10/9
Signs pointing to nowhere . . .. . . before pointing us the wrong way into the water. The New York City Ballet Gala performance taxed our patience as we have come to expect over the years. Gianna…
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NYCB 9/26
Impressive debutsThe final performance of the Masters at Work series included successful debuts for Unity Phelan, Peter Walker and Miriam Miller in Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2. All three clearly had decided beforehand that…
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NYCB 9/25
Mozartiana, M&M, Concerto DSCHHow freakin' lucky are we at the ballet to be able to listen to a program of four of the greatest composers to ever live! Tschaikovsky, Mozart, Stravinsky, and Shostakovich. That is one…
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NYC Ballet 9/21 evening
Intelligence For Our TimesThe highlight of Saturday evening was Lar Lubovitch’s Each In Their Own Time, a pas de deux he created for New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival in 2021 to Johannes Brahms’…