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Black & White reigns supreme
Whew, what a week of American culture on the West Side of Manhattan. New York City Ballet wrapped up its first week of the spring season – all Balanchine classics – in fine form.…
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Maya Plisetskaya
Rest in peace.
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Jared & Yuriko soar in La Bayadere – for Houston Ballet
From Houston Ballet's Instagram Treasure squandered by ABT now on display for the whole world to see.
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observations 5/1
Yesterday the Royal Ballet uploaded rehearsal footage of Alessandra Ferri and Frederico Bonelli in the new work by Wayne McGregor, Woolf Works, which is based on stories written by Virginia Woolf and due to…
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“A” is for Articulation
NYCB makes it as clear as black & white 4/28-29During the first two days of its Balanchine Black & White week, New York City Ballet fielded nine masterpieces with such clarity, graceful force, joy, and supreme artistry that it suggested a new zenith…
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Garbage in, garbage out at ABT
Manipulation & misuse of unverified statistics to promote a faulty star strategyHow nauseating it was to observe the self-satisfied smirking of ABT’s chief financial officer, William Taylor, as he ticked off one false statement after another as justification for ABT’s secret “Star Strategy” during a…