Category: New York City Ballet
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NYCB Fall Season mostly in full, glorious color
There are Third World problems and First World problems and then there are New York Balletomane problems. These are sometimes expressed with the question: "How was the performance?" followed by the answer "It…
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NYCB Weeks 2&3 – Spectacular, to say the least
With three quarters down and one to play, we can safely predict that this has been the most winning New York City Ballet fall season in decades. For several years, balletomanes have been…
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NYCB Jewels 9/20 & 9/21
Loaded with gemsNew York City Ballet dressed itself to the hilt with two more glistening performances of Jewels on Wednesday and Thursday. Every single debut was a 100 carat diamondized beauty set among the polished…
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NYCB Opens its 75th Anniversary Season 9/19
Opening Night of New York City Ballet’s 75th Anniversary Season had a circusy feel to it – as though we had somehow stumbled into the middle of Massine’s Parade. A line of picketing…
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observations 9/14
Here's the NYCB cast sheet for Week 2 that is posted in the lobby. No changes yet to Week 1. Just curious — who out there in NYC currently receives free individual health…
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observations 9/12
This is a drop dead gorgeous coffee table book. Oh my goodness. While the choreography for which these costumes were designed was mostly forgettable — with the exception of the brilliant Spectral Evidence by…
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observations 9/5
So . . . along with today's announcement of some fairly interesting casting for New York City Ballet's opening week of Jewels came the announcement that the NYCB Orchestra has authorized a strike…
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NYCB 5/10
Here she is – better late than never!Our little pink renegade in the red Azalea Corps de Ballet of Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park has appeared at last. Seemingly always late getting to the stage, she didn't show up this year…
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Wheeldon and Pyres at NYCB
When the math doesn’t workArriving at our blessed $38 seats for our first view of Christopher Wheeldon’s new “abstract” work for New York City Ballet entitled From You Within Me, we were met by a front scrim…
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NYCB Week Two
Sometimes patchy but mostly passionateThere are some patches in the garden that need to be filled in. The NYC Department of Parks should pay more attention to our iconic azalea garden in Damrosch Park and…
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observations 4/25
We think we predicted this some years back. If Sara Mearns was going to get a Juliet, it would probably be Ratmansky's. And yes, it will be so. On June 16th in Toronto, Sara…
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NYCB 4/20
Well now they’re just plain showing off . . .. . . the azaleas in Damrosch Park, that is. It's not that there wasn't some of that going on last night at NYCB, too. Terrific debuts, a long anticipated return, and…
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NYCB opens the spring season with high spirits — and an occasional sputter
Not everyone was in full bloom last night at the opening performance of NYCB's spring season, but we balletomanes didn't care. Spring season always starts with peeks at new growth; it doesn't start…
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NYCB 75th Anniversary Season 2023-2024
OMG! This is how ya bankrupt the balletomanes. . .We're literally fainting over the fall season. There are so many different programs that will bring such joy to the faithful and so much opportunity for so many dancers to shine. We may end…
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NYCB 2/26
Whew! What a relief! Now we can get some sleep!New York City Ballet closed the season with a terrific Sleeping Beauty that was a mere handful of balances short of spectacular. But we'll take it and be thrilled. It had been…