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NYCB 5/14 – Contemporary Choreography I
Tuesday evening’s Contemporary Choreography I program was not the spectacular, uplifting evening that we expected. Alexei Ratmansky’s Pictures at an Exhibition was originally a hyperkinetic romp of artistry to Mussorgsky’s music…
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NYCB Tonight!
Very much looking forward to hearing Stephen Gosling play this tonight at NYCB:
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NYCB Spring Gala 5/2
Gimmicks and GownsNew York City Ballet galas are never about good taste. Wear all your jewelry, find a dress that borders on ostentatious, judge everyone’s state of thinness — that’s what they’re about. So…
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NYCB 4/26
Dances at a Gathering & Brahms-Schoenberg QuartetProperly hydrating before and during Robbins' long piano ballet, Dances at a Gathering, is important for the professional — balletomane, that is. The ballet may only be 60+ minutes long, but on Friday…
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NYCB 4/24 & 4/25 The growing season begins
New York City Ballet opened its Spring Season with a little rain and a gloomy cloud, but the sun managed to break through to get the growing season officially started. The…
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NYCB 2/15
Ratmansky’s “Solitude” – The impact of a child’s deathSomeone else’s child. In a far away chaos. The world doesn’t even blink. And the chaos carries on. Alexei Ratmansky blinked. In his new work Solitude, which is set to Gustav Mahler’s…