Category: New York City Ballet
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observations 5/22
The New York Post reports that David Koch isn't going to help fund the renovation of the new David Geffen Hall (formerly Avery Fisher Hall) at Lincoln Center. Well, who's surprised. They couldn't exactly…
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NYCB 5/15 – The pups are loose!
Watching the young NYCB pups race on stage to run with the big dogs makes Haglund’s heart sing. In last night’s blistering and beautiful Symphony in C, the young corps dancers Ashly Isaacs and…
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ABT & NYCB 5/12
The thrill of the customized ballet eveningGiven the ballet offerings at Lincoln Center last night, Haglund would have expected to attend the most classical ballet La Sylphide with Herman Cornejo at ABT and then race across the plaza to watch…
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observations 5/9
Get Ready, San Diego. New York City Ballet is coming your way. The company will appear at the beautiful San Diego Civic Theatre on Saturday, October 10th as part of the La Jolla Music…
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Premiere 5/7
NYCB’s La Sylphide soarsPardon the sticky fingers, but Haglund woke up this morning with a hankering for homemade cinnamon Danish, probably the aftereffect of enjoying last night’s premiere of New York City Ballet’s new La Sylphide. We’re…
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observations 5/7
We're plenty excited about the NYCB premiere of La Sylphide tonight. Those props had better behave themselves. All of the upcoming casts are fantastic: Hyltin & DeLuz, Bouder & Veyette, Peck & Garcia, and…
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NYCB 5/5
Lute Abuse at the BalletCinco de Mayo was observed in many parts of the city last night – in different ways. About cinco minutes into Zachary Catazaro’s debut as Apollo, a substance like slippery mayo on the grip…
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observations 5/6
ABT has made more alterations to the spring season casting. Marcelo Gomes has been deleted from Gillian Murphy's cast of Ashton's Cinderella and replaced by Alex Hammoudi. On the heels of the end of…
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Black & White reigns supreme
Whew, what a week of American culture on the West Side of Manhattan. New York City Ballet wrapped up its first week of the spring season – all Balanchine classics – in fine form.…
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“A” is for Articulation
NYCB makes it as clear as black & white 4/28-29During the first two days of its Balanchine Black & White week, New York City Ballet fielded nine masterpieces with such clarity, graceful force, joy, and supreme artistry that it suggested a new zenith…
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Jennie Somogyi and Ana Sophia Scheller return!
NYCB posted the first week's casting, and our Jennie is back! Hallelujah! She will dance opening night, April 28th, in Balanchine's Episodes and in all of the performances of Episodes that week. Never has…
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April 28th
is going to be a big, big day around these parts. Two weeks from today, New York City Ballet opens its Spring Season with a huge week of Balanchine Black & White repertory followed…
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It’s getting ridiculous…
… the blistering hot talent in this one family. Tiler Peck will substitute for her sister-in-law, Megan Fairchild, on Broadway in performances of On the Town March 3rd, March 4th (both performances), March 14th…
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observations 2/14
More casting for the Segerstrom Center premiere of ABT's Sleeping Beauty has been posted on the calendar. It appears that Marcelo Gomes is slotted to perform – in addition to his Prince Desire role…
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NYCB puts the Art in Smart – 2/12
It was one of those quintessential, Manhattan-cool, this-is-why-we're-the-Dance-Capital-of-the-World evenings. The first of three 2015 Art Nights at New York City Ballet was an evening of off-the-charts dancing for an audience of laid back, trendy…