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ABT – Swan Lake – Vishneva, Gomes 6/24
One hopes that Diana Vishneva, at the very least, bought Marcelo Gomes a beer after last night’s ABT performance of Swan Lake. It was hard to imagine a more perfect partner for Diana than…
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Swan Lake = Cash Cow
A glance at the Met Opera's ticket site shows that the Swan Lakes for Wednesday through Saturday evenings are close to sold out, Most evenings are sold well into the penultimate row of the…
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ABT – Swan Lake – Opening Night 6/22
ABT opened a week of Swan Lake performances last night with Irina Dvorovenko as Odette/Odile and Max Beloserkovsky as Prince Siegfried. The house was packed, and the crowd was enthusiastic. Haglund had mixed feelings…
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ABT – Airs / La Sylphide – Part, Stearns, Salstein 6/20
All the way home on the train after seeing the final performance of ABT‘s Airs/La Sylphide, Haglund sparred with his internal editor. She can be such a humorless b____. But tonight she’s twirling around…
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ABT – Airs – Stewart; La Sylphide – Ananiashvili & Hallberg 6/16
Last night’s performance of Airs with a cast made up of corps members Kelley Boyd, Simone Messmer, Luciana Paris, Leann Underwood, Roddy Doble, Joseph Phillips, and Sean Stewart just proved that Sean Stewart must…
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ABT – Airs, La Sylphide – 6/15
After an exhilarating and exhausting week of Giselles, ABT opened the second half of its Met season with a program that included Paul Taylor’s Airs and Bournonville’s La Sylphide. The dancers took to Airs…