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If we wish for it, it will come . . .
and it IS!!! (Just not to NY.) Our nearly decade long campaign of wishful thinking is about to pay off. Houston Ballet will become the first American company to present Kenneth MacMillan's masterpiece Mayerling.…
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NYCB – 1/28 matinee
We're catching up on a few observations before reluctantly leaving this beloved sanctuary city for DC tomorrow to see the brand new Real McCOO in the early matinee – that’s the Real McCoy Odette/Odile,…
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NYC Ballet 1/26
Pop on pointe & in sneakers; Crystal Pepsi in the New Age of alternative bubbly balletWho remembers Crystal Pepsi? Not many. More importantly, who remembers what it tasted like? Fewer. It never was the “clear alternative” to what everyone was drinking. It was a bad idea that a great…
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New York City Ballet 1/22
Finishing the week with novices and expertsNew York City Ballet’s Winter Season Week One concluded on Sunday, George Balanchine’s birthday, with an interesting choice of All-Stravinsky programing that featured (1) young novices who are advancing through the company’s feeder school,…
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NYCB – All Balanchine 1/18 & 1/19
New York City Ballet’s All Balanchine program on Wednesday and Thursday was made up of two of the master’s best and one of his least best of those in the active repertory. We’ll dwell…
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observations 1-18
Dance on Camera Festival tickets go on sale to the non-member general public on Thursday morning (1-19 tomorrow). Opening the festival on February 3rd will be the long-awaited documentary on Marcelo Gomes that we…