Category: New York City Ballet
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Villella at SPAC with NYCB
Edward Villella will be NYCB's Guest of Honor at the Ruby Ball Gala on July 13th at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. The performance will include Balanchine's Rubies in addition to rep by Martins,…
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NYCB – Who doesn’t love a parade?
The final performance of NYCB's Spring Season got started six minutes late on Sunday for whatever reasons. Not to worry, though. Conductor Clotilde Otranto shaved six minutes off of Stars and Stripes – without…
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NYCB – Piano Power – 6/4
NYCB fielded quite an impressive army of ivories last night, and that was even before the armies of Stars and Stripes arrived. Four pianists were featured in last night's program – three of them…
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NYCB final week includes
6/4 – Chase Finlay's debut as El Capitan in Stars and Stripes. 6/7 – Tiler Peck in her OMG role in Allegro Brilliante. 6/9 – Ashley Bouder & Andrew Veyette close out the season…
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NYCB – Spools of Faile 5/24
Faile is back for another try. The second installation of NYCB's Art Series, which again features the work of the Brooklyn art collective, is on display on the promenade level of the theater. You'll…
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NYCB – All Martins Program – 5/14
Tonight NYCB presented its first ever full evening of repertory by Peter Martins. Over the years, there have been complaints about his choreography mostly because it has never been as good as Balanchine's and…
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NYCB – All Balanchine – 5/11 mat
Mark your calendars. Next weekend is the 40th Annual Ninth Avenue Food Festival. Hard to believe that it's that time of year again. The old avenue sure has seen its share of funnel cakes,…
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NYCB – Spring Gala – 5/8
It was one of those nights when you wished you could be in two places at once. While NYCB was presenting its Spring Gala at Lincoln Center, the newest production of On Your Toes…
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NYCB – Ivesiana sneaks in under
cover of darkness – 4/30It's only about two months between the end of NYCB's Winter Season and the beginning of its Spring Season but it can seem like an eternity. When the curtain rose tonight on the first…
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UIEX Update – NYCB reality TV series for real
LAST AUGUST, the H.H. Unofficial Information Exchange (UIEX) tickertape was whirling around chasing its tail in a frenzy after getting a tip on Sarah Jessica Parker's new idea to produce a reality TV show…
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Program Reminder
Live From Lincoln Center: CarouselThis Friday, April 26, at 9:00pm (Eastern) PBS's Live From Lincoln Center will broadcast the New York Philharmonic's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel in which NYCB's Tiler Peck and Robert Fairchild dance. It…
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Jennie Somogyi is back!
NYCB confirmed on its FB page that Jennie is back in the lineup. What a joyous celebration that will be, particularly for those of us who watched her limp from the stage after rupturing…
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NYCB Spring Season opens in 12 days
Here it is almost two months later and NYCB still proudly proclaims on the front of its website that it promoted ELEVEN of its own dancers. Maybe the company should keep it on the…
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“Little Dancer” musical by Susan Stroman planned for Kennedy Center
While no casting has yet been announced, the producers released the information that NYCB's Tiler Peck portrayed the dancing & singing Little Dancer in the workshop production last summer. The brand new production will…
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Just throwing it out there . . . .
Never has NYCB had more dancers who would thrill the ballet universe in the traditional Petipa role of Kitri. Think of Bouder, Mearns, Scheller, Peck, Hyltin, and Reichlen tearing up the stage in Don…