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Jared Matthews promoted to principal dancer
This is great, great news. So very deserved. Houston Ballet: Well done!! Congratulations to one of our most favorite home grown talents ever. Here are Jared and Yuriko as Romeo and Juliet. What a…
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Skip the wrapping and ribbon
Rachel Moore's present to ABT on its 75th Anniversary is to bail out on the declining institution. Now if we could only get the same present from her mate on the artistic side. The…
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observations 6-14
There is plenty of progress on our new Culture Shed in the Hudson Yards District on the West Side of Manhattan! (Click on image to enlarge.) Applause for New York's construction workers for whom…
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PTDC, Parsons Dance, Ballet Hispanico @ Pier 63
The inaugural performances of the Hudson River Dance Festival are this week! On Wed. 6/17 and Thu. 6/18 at 6:30 PM on the Great Lawn of Chelsea (Pier 63 @ 23rd Street) in Hudson…
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ABT – Sleeping Beauty 6/11
Small is beautifulWere it not for the extraordinary dancing of Sarah Lane and Herman Cornejo along with a few secondary players last night, this reconstruction of Sleeping Beauty would have seemed more like salvage. That's not…
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Dame Monica Mason event at Lincoln Center
Prior to the Royal Ballet's performance at Lincoln Center on Wednesday, June 24th, there will be a Dance Dialogue with Dame Monica Mason, former Artistic Director and Principal Dancer of the Royal Ballet, and…