Category: New York City Ballet
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NYCB – All Wheeldon Program 1/28
Last evening NYCB presented its first ever program devoted solely to the work of its former resident choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. Single choreographer programs are usually reserved for the works of Balanchine and Robbins. When…
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Celebrating the Giants – 1/22
At NYCB's Sunday matinee, which was the official celebration of the giant genius of George Balanchine on the occasion of his birthday, the audience was treated to performances by 13 – that's 13 bonafide…
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NYCB – Winter Season Opening Night 1/17
NYCB closed its Christmas season of The Nutcracker only to open the Winter Season last evening with a big Christmas tree on stage surrounded by children's presents and soldiers. The Steadfast Tin Soldier was…
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On Haglund’s Calendar – Stop the insanity!
Can't wait for NYCB to open the winter season on Tuesday, January 17th with Bouder & Veyette in Tchai Pas and R. Fairchild and Peck in Who Cares? There are lots of great performances…
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Program reminders
NYCB The Nutcracker Live-streamed at the movies TONIGHT 6PM Eastern. NYCB The Nutcracker Live from Lincoln Center PBS Wednesday night at 8PM. San Francisco Ballet's The Little Mermaid on Great Performances PBS Friday night…
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Lucking Out with Vaganova Today
Lucking Out: my life getting down and semi-dirty in seventies new york by James Wolcott and Vaganova Today, The Preservation of Pedagogical Tradition by Catherine W. Pawlick recently arrived in the mail in the…
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Hot Ticket of the Week
. . . that is, the third week of December. Ana Sophia Scheller and Robert Fairchild will be the Sugar Plum Fairy and Her Cavalier on Sunday, December 18th at 5PM at the New…
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Nut notes
The kids at Ballet Mississippi are about to have a few Christmas dreams come true when ABT's Veronika Part and Blaine Hoven join them as The Sugar Plum Fairy and Her Cavalier for a…
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NYCB – The Nutcracker – Opening Night 11/25
Watching the children perform in the New York City Ballet's annual Nutcracker is a little like watching a collection of rare Madame Alexander dolls come to life. There is no end to the perfectly…
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Some refreshing good news . . .
NYCB Nutcracker opens in less than one week! All the familiar faces of the dancers we cherish will be in the leading roles. The only guest artist is – what!@¿# – why, oh, why…
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NYCB coming to a cinema near you
Tuesday, December 13 marks the first of hopefully many live HD transmissions by NYCB to movie cinemas across the country, and hopefully across the world eventually. Five hundred theaters will receive the inaugural live…
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Program reminders
PBS presents Miami City Ballet tonight at 9:00 p.m. Tickets for the YAGP documentary "First Position" at the NYU Kimmel Center on November 5 are available at this link. PBS presents NYCB Nutcracker on…
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NYCB – Square Dance, Fearful Symmetries, West Side Story Suite – 10/8
Despite the high level of dancing seen these past four weeks and despite having attended far fewer performances than usual, Haglund is relieved that NYCB's Fall Season is finished. The deceitful and disrespectful manner…
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NYCB – The Jerry Dancers honored – 9/30
True. Last night's presentation of The Jerome Robbins Award to 26 NYCB ballerinas, who used their extraordinary artistry over a sixty-plus year span to bring his work to life, was not an official NYCB…
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Snack on this
If new ballets acquired by the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre could spend six weeks in a Broadway-style out-of-town tryout in a suburban Toronto theater, we might get a lot better…