Category: New York City Ballet
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The day after
Haglund spent the day after Christmas working off the holiday sugar and distilled elements by sitting around and enjoying a high calorie buffet of ballet. Lauren King's second performance as the Sugar Plum Fairy…
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NYCB – Slew of debuts – 12/22 matinee
The last two weeks of NYCB's The Nutcracker can be unusually exciting because Peter Martins often casts several deserving corps dancers in meaty principal roles. These opportunities are meaningful beyond words for the dancers…
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Ring those bells
What gives? The New York City Ballet rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning, and the market tanked nearly 100 points. Didn't the traders see the dazzling smile…
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Henry Leutwyler’s new NYCB book Ballet
Sorry to sound so down right bah humbuggish, but this book is a disappointment. Haglund can't claim to have even an elementary knowledge of photography or "art" photography, but blur doesn't do anything but…
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NYCB on 60 Minutes plus
CBS has loaded tonight's 60 Minutes segment onto its website. Additionally, some footage that did not make the final cut, including film footage of Balanchine, is on the website as Correspondent Candids. As fluff…
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NYCB – The Crux of the Nut – 11/24
In the Playbill program for last evening's NYCB The Nutcracker, there was a brief excerpt from a 2009 interview with Valery Gergiev, who while commenting on the social power of the theater, said: "When…
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NYCB on 60 Minutes this Sunday
CBS 60 Minutes anchor Leslie Stahl follows Robert Fairchild in his 2011 debut in Apollo during this Sunday's edition of 60 Minutes. As everyone knows, the program is customarily on at 7pm, but this is…
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NYCB change in Winter Season repertory
Apparently, NYCB has pulled the new Peter Martins/Marc-Andre Dabalvie ballet from the 2013 Winter Season because the composer needs more time to complete the music. A premiere by Justin Peck to Bohuslav Martinu's Sinfonietta…
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Henry Leutwyler’s book on NYCB delayed again
Amazon sent out another round of emails notifying anxious buyers that shipment of Henry Leutwyler's new book of NYCB photographs will be delayed until mid-December – the second delay since the original expected release…
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A doctoral level lesson in dance marketing
from NYCB. . . that is, another doctoral level lesson. A new fabulous promotional video has shown up on the front of NYCB's website and is now on The Atlantic Magazine's website as well. Oh,…
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Henry Leutwyler’s new book on NYCB – delayed
Haglund got the bad news in the middle of the night from Amazon.com that shipment of his copy of Henry Leutwyler's much anticipated new book of photographs of NYCB will be delayed until early-mid…
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NYCB – Smokin’ C – 10/13 matinee
Hot. Fast. Thrilling. This afternoon's final performance of Symphony in C closed with a blast of energy as dense as dynamite. And it was all detonated by Andrews Sill's baton and the fabulous and…
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NYCB – Year of the Rabbit
It's the Year of the Dragon. It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that Haglund was born in the Year of the Dragon — a while back. Thankfully, the elemental sign of water…
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No debate tonight
No one was debating the greatness of NYCB tonight at Lincoln Center. It was another extraspecialtacular evening that concluded with a brilliant Symphony in C –– the C standing for Cyclone Speed, baby. You…
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NYCB – Symphony in C promising debuts 10/2
NYCB has a lot of big hitters on the disabled list right now including Somogyi, Bouder, Mearns, and Abi Stafford. We'll see them all back in the lineup sooner than later, but for now,…