Category: New York City Ballet
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NYCB – All I want for Christmas…
It is possible that over the past year or so some readers may not have been paying much attention to Haglund’s calm cooings about Isabella LaFreniere. Well, calm no more. First, apologies to anyone…
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observations 12-7.1
Where is the money supposed to come from for all of this?! NYCB just announced that Aaron Sanz and Harrison Coll will debut as Nutcracker Prince on December 23rd (@ 2pm) and December 24th…
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observations 12-2
The few comments that we've been able to find so far on social media after last night's Iowa City preview premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's new Nutcracker for the Joffrey Ballet are pretty ecstatic. Here's…
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New York City Ballet 11/25
Nutcracker – the perfect elixir for battle fatigueIt was a shock. A total shock to the senses. The complete lack of civility between the rats and the soldiers was not something that any of us expected to witness in this 21st…
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Oh, Turkey Nuts
A lot of people wonder why Odette and Odile never appear on the stage at the same time if they are truly different characters. Of late, there has been a Russian propaganda effort to…
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observations 11-21
The Sunshine Cinema on 143 E. Houston Street in Manhattan will be showing the Royal Ballet's Anastasia tonight at 7pm. Marianela Nunez has the title role the role of Kschessinska. This charming historic cinema's…
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observations 11-18
One of our loyal Haglund'eelers alerted us to the upcoming livestream of the Royal Ballet's rehearsal of some part of Sleeping Beauty. Dame Monica Mason is involved although we don't know who the dancers…
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observations 11-12
NYCB Nutcracker gets the green light: We're close to the start of this year's Nutcracker run. Opening night cast the day after Thanksgiving includes Ashley Bouder as Dewdrop. The last time we saw her…
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NYCB – Gleaming sums it up
“Meow. This represents too much sitting.” Well, yes, perhaps. But in our defense, we did stand up several times to applaud which, according to the fitness app on the Apple Watch, counts as vigorous…
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NYCB – 10/14
Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering –
about as storyless as an Auden haikuTwo decades before creating Dances at a Gathering, Jerome Robbins was immersed in bringing the complicated souls of Leonard Bernstein's and W.H. Auden’s Age of Anxiety into ballet form. Auden’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poem of…
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NYCB 3rd Week
Symphony in Three Movements, the highlight againWe wish it were called Symphony in Six Movements and would go on twice as long. And when the New York City Ballet dancers get inside the Stravinsky music as they did on Saturday…
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UIEX – observations 10-5
This whole idea of a Sarah Lane/Daniil Simkin Giselle has staggering potential – IF Simkin will portray Albrecht as an immature, self-absorbed cad who recklessly toys with Giselle's heart. It's been quite a while…
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NYCB – Jewels
Although each section of Balanchine’s Jewels includes a good-sized corps de ballet who articulate his beautiful patterns of movement, it is the Pas de Deux that are perhaps most memorable. Over the course of…
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Livestream events upcoming
Per the Wall Street Journal, Lincoln Center will run a livestream all-day event on its Facebook page and its constituents' FB pages next Friday, October 7th. The broadcast called From Sunup to Curtain Down…
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NYCB – Stravinsky/Balanchine B&W 9/21 & 9/24 mat
It's no secret that more than a few of the balletomanes who love these Stravinsky/Balanchine Black & White programs bear the burden of geometriphagia* – the uncontrollable feeding on geometric shapes. By now, readers…