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ABT 10/25 Mat & Eve
It’s never easy to ramp up to negotiate the down ramp in Natalia Makarova’s staging of The Kingdom of the Shades. It just takes constant work and dedication. The seemingly uncomplicated step-arabesque-plie becomes torturous…
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observations 10/22
Haglund just got back from Wayne McGregor’s new ballet “Beckett’s Endgame.” The music by Dustbin Mama was singularly beautiful for its 90 minute long beat of the hamgam. The existential palette for the scenery…
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ABT 10/17 & 10/19
It was an exhausting weekend. Sandwiched between two performances of beloved 20th Century ballets made when the world was embroiled in conflict and revolutions, there was the No Kings March to protest the war…
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observations 10/20
A dear reader alerted us to Wiener Staatsoper’s production of Alexei Ratmansky’s Of Love And Rage being produced there under the title Kallirhoe. The performance is available for free streaming for two more days.…
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ABT 10/15 — All Tharp Program
American Ballet Theatre’s opening night program, Twyla @ 60, is a misnomer. Twyla is really 84 — a thumping, jumping, pumping, romping 84; 84 and wanting more, as they say. But she’s been making dances for…
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observations 10/10
It’s tiring. Every three years we have to go through this tug of war between NYCB dancers and management over the contract. There are practical solutions that NYCB’s board, along with other nonprofit boards,…