The Vail International Dance Festival opened Sunday night. On Wednesday Herman Cornejo will dance Rubies with Tiler Peck in excerpts from Balanchine's Jewels with the Pennsylvania Ballet. Later in the week he and Alessandra Ferri will perform a bit from Angelin Preljocaj's Le Parc. Haglund wishes that Herman would jump to NYCB so that we could watch him dance almost every night and where he would receive the management's respect. It's time. The time is now. Make the jump.

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This Friday night, Veronika Part will be Giselle at the Mariinsky Ballet in a Coming Home performance that is sure to send the audience into a tizzy. How great it would be for her to reclaim an association with the Mariinsky on a more permanent basis. How great it would be for us to see all those videos of her performances that ABT's management won't let her dance.

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It was surprising (and slightly disappointing) that New York's Ukrainian community allowed the Bolshoi Ballet's visit to Lincoln Center go by without so much as a token protest against Don Putinxote. But the Ukrainian Congress Committee of North America based in upstate Watervliet, NY has organized a protest for TONIGHT at the open air venue in Saratoga Springs where the Bolshoi will perform Don Quixote.

From the Times Union:

"It's not against the ballet and performers," said Dr. Andrij Baran, president of the Capital District chapter of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of North America. "It's to raise public awareness that there's tragedy going on."

Though they might want to, let's hope none of the dancers grand jete out of the idyllic Barcelona festivities to join the protesters. It's best that they stay on stage and just enjoy the action around the perimeter from a distance.