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observations 9/6
It's time to rev up the ole pointe shoes for the fall season. Vroom vroom vroom. Let's poke some holes in those tailpipes to make sure that everybody can hear that the…
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Major ascension by Julio Bocca
Last week Haglund was reading a recent interview of Julio Bocca in which he casually quipped that he'd like to run an organization again some day. Now comes the announcement that he's taking…
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observations 7/19
A hopelessly crappy news week ends with some great news. Congratulations to Patrick Frenette, Léa Fleytoux, and Fangqi Li on their promotions to Soloists at ABT! High quality promotions every one of them. Susan…
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ABT Swan Lake 7/3 matinee
In addition to promoting Chloe Misseldine to Principal Wednesday at the conclusion of her matinee performance as Odette/Odile, Artistic Director Susan Jaffe should have draped Chloe's shoulders with a black & white PhD…
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ABT fails to learn from its mistakes
Take away the smoke, laser lights, Kabuki makeup, and odd-for-the-sake-of-odd costumes, and what is left of Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works are the same old neck rolls, rib rolls, arm rolls, twisting women to…
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ABT @ the Met
Onegin 6/18If there was any question as to whether Lensky simply failed to get a shot off or chose to allow Onegin to kill him during their duel, it wasn’t answered on Tuesday night…