Category: New York City Ballet
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NYC Ballet 9/17-18
Ready or not, here we come!The theater doors sprang open and in we ran on the first night of New York City Ballet's Fall Season. As if in a game of Hide & Go Seek since June, we…
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NYCB 5/14 – Contemporary Choreography I
Tuesday evening’s Contemporary Choreography I program was not the spectacular, uplifting evening that we expected. Alexei Ratmansky’s Pictures at an Exhibition was originally a hyperkinetic romp of artistry to Mussorgsky’s music…
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NYCB Tonight!
Very much looking forward to hearing Stephen Gosling play this tonight at NYCB:
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NYCB Spring Gala 5/2
Gimmicks and GownsNew York City Ballet galas are never about good taste. Wear all your jewelry, find a dress that borders on ostentatious, judge everyone’s state of thinness — that’s what they’re about. So…
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NYCB 4/26
Dances at a Gathering & Brahms-Schoenberg QuartetProperly hydrating before and during Robbins' long piano ballet, Dances at a Gathering, is important for the professional — balletomane, that is. The ballet may only be 60+ minutes long, but on Friday…
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NYCB 4/24 & 4/25 The growing season begins
New York City Ballet opened its Spring Season with a little rain and a gloomy cloud, but the sun managed to break through to get the growing season officially started. The…
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NYCB 2/15
Ratmansky’s “Solitude” – The impact of a child’s deathSomeone else’s child. In a far away chaos. The world doesn’t even blink. And the chaos carries on. Alexei Ratmansky blinked. In his new work Solitude, which is set to Gustav Mahler’s…
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NYCB 2/6 & 2/7
The Four Temperaments & Liebeslieder WalzerIt seems we're all a little temperamental these days. The world is out of balance; so why shouldn't our temperaments be off, too? But thanks to Balanchine, who in 1946 turned temperamental off-balance…
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Tiler Peck’s Concerto for Two Pianos
From soup to nuts, she gets it right.music ☑︎ choreography ☑︎ costumes ☑︎☑︎ casting ☑︎ lighting ☑︎ Tiler Peck’s first choreographic commission for New York City Ballet wasn’t a surprise success. We all were sure that she could create…
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NYCB 1/25 Wheeldon + Martins + Peck
If NYCB wants to paper the house for Wheeldon's and Peck's dances, it should find people who can behave. It's hard to remember a performance with more obnoxious, orchestrated applause & woo-whoo that…
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NYCB 1/24 – What a difference a day makes
Well, well, well – just had to wait 24 hours to get the real opening performance of the Winter Season. What an evening of spectacular dancing! Fancy Free was so good Wednesday…
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NYCB Winter Season opens without the seasoning
It was a rather flat start to New York City Ballet's Winter Season with an all-Robbins evening that was extended by a half hour due to the presentation of the Janice Levin Award…
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observations 1/21
The full length Jewels and "scenes from" Coppelia will be presented as part of the New York City Ballet SPAC summer season. That is grrreat news as we look forward to the announcement of…
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observations 1/10
NYCB's Winter Season is several steps down from its extraordinary Fall Season, but nevertheless, there are some things to look forward to judging from the first week's casting and a few hints gleaned…
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NYCB Nutcracker
Patience rewardedHaglund knew if he sat through enough NYCB Nutcrackers that the thrill would finally rise above the humdrum. And so it happened this past week and yesterday. At NYCB's Wednesday matinee, Miriam…