Category: New York City Ballet
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NYCB – Opening Night of the Winter Season 1/19
Over the next few weeks, the night skies will reveal five planets shining brightly simultaneously. It’s a rare occurrence that last happened more than a decade ago. Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter will…
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NYCB’s winter premiere offering
Here is NYCB's promo vid for Justin Peck's new ballet based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Most Incredible Thing which premieres on Groundhog Day. Very slick and enticing marketing effort. Our fingers are crossed…
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observations 1-18
Let's get it started, folks. Winter Season begins tomorrow! We have loved this marketing campaign since Day 1. Illustrator Jamie Lee Reardin's little cat-like faces full of cat attitude and ultra-long skinny-kitty limbs just…
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observations 1-13
As of January 1, 2016, the State Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theater in Vladivostok, Russia has been officially re-designated as the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. There is a new beautiful website, still…
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NYCB 2016 Art Series – Marcel Dzama and Amy Sedaris?
Chess moves are coming to New York City Ballet's 2016 Art Series. Canadian born, Brooklyn-based, chess enthusiast, contemporary artist Marcel Dzama will be the featured artist this winter. His installation on the Promenade will…
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observations 1-7
Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema presents Jean-Christophe Maillot’s THE TAMING OF THE SHREW on Sunday, January 24th. The cast is as follows: Katharina, the Shrew: Ekaterina KrysanovaPetruchio Vladislav LantratovBianca: Olga SmirnovaLucentio: Semyon…
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NYCB Nutcracker – New Year’s Eve
Don't cry because you finished the nuts. Smile because you had the nuts… — Mr. Squirrel Yes, okay, but Squirrel Wisdom is sometimes hard wisdom to follow. Haglund cracked a final unscheduled Nut on…
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NYCB Nutcracker – Sunday evening 11/29
Haglund recommends that all ballerinas immediately get pregnant. At Sunday evening’s performance of NYCB’s Nutcracker, Ashley Bouder, with a four-month bun in the oven, danced the role of Dewdrop more beautifully than possibly at…
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NYCB Nutcracker
High Steps & Glide Steps on Opening NightOn Thanksgiving Day, a dozen precision marching bands from across the country proudly advanced their inspiring music through the streets of New York in the Macy’s Parade while millions watched. No one seems to…
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observations 11-12
New York City Ballet's casting for the first week of Nutcracker was posted earlier this week. How exciting to see Rebecca Krohn and Amar Ramasar featured during the first week of the run –…
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NYCB – 10/18
Finishing on cat’s legs[Please click on my face for full effect.] What a rip-roaring close to the fall season on Sunday afternoon! Major debuts and major corps triumphs demonstrated that this company has unparallelled depth in its…
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NYCB 10/11
Jennie Somogyi’s last waltzAt one time or another, we’ve all picked up the phone only to be surprised to hear someone who we haven't spoken with for a long time and have missed. "It’s good to hear…
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NYCB All Balanchine – 10/10 Mat & Eve
Riddle: What’s black & white with no percussion except for the strong beating heart of its founder? That would be, of course, Saturday’s phenomenal Balanchine Black & White program at NYCB that was performed…
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NYCB – Jeux by Kim Brandstrup 10/8
Now, this was a little more like it. Full concept, robust theater, stunning costumes, some okay steps. It could have used an airplane crash somewhere in it, probably. When Nijinsky created his own Jeux…
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NYCB 10/2 – Split decision
When Balanchine was still alive and in the several years following his death, it was pretty much universally agreed that people didn’t care for most of the choreography by Peter Martins. Some were even…