Category: New York City Ballet
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NYCB – Gala 9/30
First some atmosphere from last night. It seems that there was a little bit of a South Pacific theme in play: Over the past few seasons we have learned to manage our expectations…
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observations 9-29
"Please turn off your cell phones and other electronic devices unless you are wearing a court-ordered electronic monitoring device on your ankle." We wonder if the usual pre-curtain announcement at New York City Ballet…
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observations 9-24
Oh, dear. It appears that Zachary Catazaro has been replaced for his Siegfried debut in both Swan Lake performances at NYCB this week and next. Here's hoping that it's not anything serious. Andrew Vyette…
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New York City Ballet 9/22
Swan Lake ExpressIt’s one of those things that we’ve been living with for a while – like a bad tooth that can still give a good chew. This streamlined Swan Lake conceived almost 20 years ago…
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Ballet Traffic Advisory
Toward the latter part of next week there will be lots of important debuts at New York City Ballet which many will not want to miss. Pope Francis is debuting here, too, at the…
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observations 9-17
It seems that our Stella Abrera and Marcelo Gomes will be among the headers in the lineup for the DanceFAR 2015 cancer benefit at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco on November 10th.…
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observations 9-5
It seems that ABT has been unable to update the dancers' bios to show, for instance, that Stella Abrera triumphed as Giselle and as Ashton's Cinderella last season (not to mention all of her…
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observations 8-12
Here's a lovely NBC News online piece about our Stella Abrera. She talks about how she was a complete bunhead at an early age, injuries, and achieving principal designation at a late age. Haglund…
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JR’s favorite ballerina “plastered”
Yes, indeed, that would be NYCB's newest principal ballerina, Lauren Lovette, who is now bigger than life and plastered against the wall at 100 Franklin Street in TriBeCa. Thanks to the generous mega-developpers, DDG,…
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Jennie Somogyi’s Farewell Performance
Sad, but true. Sunday, October 11th @ 3:00 PM Love this dancer. Photos: Paul Kolnik Haglund hopes Jennie sticks around in some capacity. She's NYCB through and through. So much institutional knowledge.
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observations 7-18
New York City Ballet single tickets for the fall, winter, and spring seasons go on sale August 2nd. Lots of performances of Symphony in C, The Four Temperaments, Ballo della Regina, Jewels, Symphony in…
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Lincoln Center at the Movies: Great American Dance
New York City Ballet will help launch this new series with a nationwide cinema encore presentation of The Nutcracker which was originally broadcast in 2011 on PBS. Cinema tickets officially go on sale tomorrow…
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NYCB 6/5 & 6/7 mat
The Passing of the LegsLegs come and go in ballet and torches get passed, but, oh, 'twas an artfully arranged Passing of the Legs this weekend in Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Forsooth, Maria Kowroski, who shall commence…
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Congratulations
Update 10PM: Congratulations to Lauren Lovette and Anthony Huxley on their promotions to Principal Dancer at New York City Ballet! And, finally, Ashly Isaacs has been appointed soloist. Such great news! Lauren and Anthony…
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NYCB La Sylphide 5/23 mat
ABT Giselle 5/23 eve
The best ballet hangover – everThe spirits were flowing freely from one end of Lincoln Center to the other on Saturday. Haglund was happy drunk as a skunk all day long. First, you can take the afternoon’s debut cast…