Category: New York City Ballet
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NYCB – Opens One Month from Today!
No guest artists. Just great artists.
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NYCB -The effect of global warming on the ballet
It has happened. Global warming has made a greater impact than we ever anticipated. Last night at NYCB, Winter was tepid, Spring was hot and sultry, Summer was cool, and Fall was a…
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NYCB/McCartney – Ocean’s Kingdom
What Haglund loves about this Bill Bernstein photo is that the two of them are dressed alike. Haglund is more than just optimistic about the Peter Martins choreography for this new work. Martins has…
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NYCB Wins McCartney ballet score!
Surely Haglund will win some well-deserved prize for being the first to sniff out the McCartney/Martins story on his Hunch-O-Meter LAST JUNE! Well, it's now official. NYCB gets the McCartney score for next Fall's…
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NYCB – *Olde Good Things 2/15
Whenever Haglund is in a space where he can truthfully say that the oldest thing in the room is also the best thing, he feels validated, like there’s a reason to go on living. …
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On Haglund’s Calendar – New Dosado-er at NYCB
Allemande left and dosado — On Thursday, February 24, Ashley Bouder will debut in Square Dance. Y'all may wanna swing by for it.
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NYCB – “There’s Satan in that Siren”
That was the chant from the NYCB Fourth Ring last night after Sara Mearns lured Sean Suozzi to his destruction in their formidable debuts as the Prodigal Son and Siren. Hey, Haglund just reports what he…
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NYCB – The Magic Flute, Duo, Valse & 4Ts – 2/2
Haglund is glad he decided to sleep on what he saw last night at NYCB instead of shooting from a cranky hip, because the bright, sunny morning brought back some of the bright, sunny…
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NYCB – Ligetisplits at the ballet
Haglund wishes that he’d had a better time at NYCB Friday night. With the exception of a scorching rendition of Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH, it was a fairly lackluster evening. Neither the New…
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NYCB Opens the Winter Season with terrific 4Ts
There was much to cheer about at NYCB’s opening performance of its Winter Season. No, Peter Martins did not appear before the curtain to make a speech. He had a busy day of explaining…
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Slip-Slidin’ in The Big Apple
It's an orthopedic surgeon's dreamscape out there on the streets this morning. Black ice galore. Everyone be careful on your way to the OPENING NIGHT of NYCB'S WINTER SEASON. Haglund wonders if Peter Martins…
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The Bala Lama
"It’s not clear what’s going to happen." this, from the scholar, Jennifer Homans, speaking about the future of ballet while plugging her book on Charlie Rose last night. It was one of those proverbial Duh, thank you, Captain…
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Sunday Snowcrackers @ NYCB & ABT 12/26
Neither a few snow flurries nor cool breezes nor signal problems on the G train kept Haglund from enjoying a Sunday full of Nutcrackers. First up was Rebecca Krohn’s debut as the Sugar Plum…
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When the NYT’s critic can’t find the right words
Haglund can hardly keep up with all the December Nutcracker doings. But he’s going to lower the old chin and push forward. He wouldn’t want some snarky donut hole at The New York Times…
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NYCB – Nutcracker Opening Night 11/26
As you can see, when Haglund got home from NYCB’s Opening Night of The Nutcracker, somebody was waiting for a complete report on the mice. And he was not happy to hear that the mice,…