Category: New York City Ballet
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NYCB’s Rebecca Krohn – Summer Roadwork
Just another hot day in Manhattan as NYCB's beautiful, gracious, shimmering, and no doubt sweaty Rebecca Krohn (aka one of Haglund's favorites) prances around on the hot asphalt out on 7th Avenue in front…
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NYCB – Chase Finlay and Anthony Huxley promoted to soloist
NYCB's Chase Finlay and Anthony Huxley have been promoted to soloists according to Broadway World. The appointments were announced today as the company concludes its Saratoga Season. Good news, indeed!
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Compromise
Instead of trying to rename the Koch Theater, why don't we just give an additional name to the actual stage: The George Balanchine Stage at the David H. Koch Theater at the Lincoln Center…
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NYCB – Dancers’ Choice – 6/12
The Dancers chose, the Dancers organized, the Dancers gave out gifts and prizes, the Dancers danced, and we all had a good time at the third annual Dancers' Choice evening at NYCB which was…
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UIEX: NYCB Fourth Ring Society ending?
The Unofficial Information Exchange (UIEX) received a tip from a quasi-sort-of-official-anonymous-perhaps-reliable source that NYCB's popular Fourth Ring Society, which allows one to join for an initial payment of $20-25 and thereafter entitles the member…
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NYCB – Fearful Symmetries, The Dreamer,
La Sonnambula 5/22What a Sunday matinee! Peter Martins should rename his piece Fearsome Symmetries. Today his choreography was knocked out with fearless authority by Sterling Hyltin & Chase Finlay, Tiler Peck & Taylor Stanley, Lauren King…
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NYCB – All Robbins – 5/21
After preparing all day yesterday for the End of the World – laundry done, litterbox changed, checkbook balanced, recycle bins emptied – what did we get at 6PM? A couple of dark clouds and…
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NYCB – Not perfectly sinful, but pretty good.
At an informal talk on Monday where Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Patti LuPone, and Wendy Whelan discussed the new production of The Seven Deadly Sins, Ms. LuPone made a point of saying that she had brought…
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NYCB – Friday 5/6 & Saturday Mat 5/7
Haglund is clearly out of shape for the MLB spring season. (That's Major League Ballet for those who have forgotten.) After only five treks to the outfield bleachers, he's exhausted. What a week! Friday…
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NYCB – A Grand New Apollo 5/5
It was another butt-on-the-edge-of-the-seat night at NYCB on Thursday as Chase Finlay made a remarkable debut in Apollo followed by Jennie Somogyi and her band of Sanguinista Rebels who happily tore through The Four…
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NYCB delivers the big “O” – 5/4
O-U-T-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G evening at NYCB last night. The men and women of the corps de ballet were unified, committed, and energetic – a joy to watch in all three ballets of the evening. First up…
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NYCB – Opening Night Spring Season 2011
NYCB received a warm reception upon opening its Spring Season Tuesday with the first evening of a week of Black & White programs – programs consisting of those Balanchine ballets which were costumed in…
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NYCB – Looking forward
NYCB opens its Spring Season on Tuesday. Everyone hopes that the labor negotiations will be resolved but not without the dancers achieving a standard of compensation and benefits that reflects that they work in…
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NYCB labor negotiations
Haglund totally supports the NYCB dancers if they wish to strike. According to the 2008 Form 990, which was not filed until May 2010, Peter Martins made $723,000. (Wonder what he receives now.) The…
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NYCB Opens in Two Weeks
No guest artists. Just great artists. Yep, the first week of casting is up for NYCB's spring season and the first crack of the ballet bats is only two short weeks away. There are…