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Attention, mes amis Parisiens
The Frenchman, Alexandre Hammoudi, will be dancing the principal role of Désiré in ABT's Sleeping Beauty on Tuesday, September 6 opposite the exquisite could-be-French-too-if-she-wanted Stella Abrera as Aurora. Hammoudi was born in Paris and…
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observations 7-25
Beginning this November, José Manuel Carreño will become the Artistic Director of Ballet de Monterrey, a company that includes many Cubans within its roster of forty dancers. Here is merely one of them, Ernesto Mejica,…
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Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival
Lincoln Center and Darlene Love deliver!There are some performers who shouldn’t retire from the stage – Baryshnikov, Jagger, and Darlene Love. Oh my goodness. Did Lincoln Center ever do itself proud last night with its sensational presentation of Darlene…
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Another black eye for ballet
while making America grate againThis is not a political blog. In fact, we go out of our way to avoid national political hot-topics even though they might draw parallels to the dance world and even supply a little…
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observations 7-16
Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival begins next week. On Saturday (7/23) Dance Theatre of Harlem company & school will perform on the Hearst Plaza (by the reflecting pool) at 2:00pm. Then at 7:30pm…
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Opening preview performance
CATS – The new life beginsHaglund used to walk by the Winter Garden Theater and wonder when in the heck that CATS musical would close. He’d seen it a few times over its 18 year run, knew a few…