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Gelsey Kirkland Ballet – Cavalry Halt 3/7
It was a complete pleasure seeing the Gelsey Kirkland Ballet present the New York premiere of Marius Petipa’s Cavalry Halt Friday night at Symphony Space. Staged by Nikolai Levitsky and Vera Solovyeva, both formerly…
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Stanley, Blanche, and Stella
coming to the Kennedy CenterOh, yeah. Just announced – the Scottish Ballet's blistering hot production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire will be part of the Kennedy Center's 2014-2015 season. The company took this ballet into…
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observations 3/4
Ethan Stiefel has made the decision not to renew his AD contract at the Royal New Zealand Ballet and will return to the U.S. on September 1st. Thanks to Kallima for providing us with…
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NYCB – agility & speed close with a big win – 3/2
If you bought a ticket to today’s final performance of the Winter Season, you hit the ballet trifecta. Concerto Barocco, The Four Temperaments, and Stravinsky Violin Concerto were the elite purebreds that brought the…
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UIEX: Olga orbiting in ABT’s star system
The Unofficial Information Exchange (UIEX) tickertape was whirling around at Warp 6 this morning after knowledgeable street analysts predicted that Olga Smirnova would dance in La Bayadere at ABT's performance on the evening of…
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New Ratmansky Sleeping Beauty for ABT
NYT reports that ABT's 2015 Spring Season at the Metropolitan House will feature a new production of Sleeping Beauty with designs by Richard Hudson based on Leon Bakst's original designs for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.…