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Mariinsky Swan Lake casting for Wash DC 2014
As we know, subject to change in a big way – but here it is: Tue., Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. Fri., Jan. 31 at 7:30 p.m. Sun., Feb. 2 at 1:30 p.m.Viktoria Tereshkina,…
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ABT declares artistic bankruptcy
In Kevin McKenzie's updated and re-imagined production of Giselle for the spring Met season, Giselle is a classically-impoverished equinerina and Albrecht makes gay porn. Some of the worst crap-casting ever makes ABT's 2014 Spring…
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observations 10/7
There's a new brief clip for the NYCB/AOL "television" program citi.ballet that was uploaded this morning at on.aol.com. It's about pointe shoes, which is fine, but Haglund hopes that the dancers will learn to…
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NYCB 10/5 Matinee
Leggz Kowroski’s Swords of SexSo much to talk about, so little time. Haglund's got to spend the rest of the weekend revving up his new iPhone that came yesterday. Seriously, when you register your prints on the home…
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Scottish Ballet’s A Streetcar Named Desire
stuns New Orleans with its brilliance"That, drama fans, is how you perform Tennessee Williams in toe shoes; how you capture one of the great emblematic characters of American theater without uttering a word." That's from today's Times-Picayune in response…
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NYCB 10/3
Soirée Musicale, Spectral Evidence, NamounaThe brilliant, self-described anarchist John Cage created a large body of musical compositions that Haglund isn't much interested in listening to when he winds up his old Victrola. Thank goodness there are people like…