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ABT – The Bright Stream 6/10
It was another highly entertaining performance of The Bright Stream tonight. Julie Kent and Jose Manuel Carreno as Zina and Pyotr, her husband, were quite pleasing to watch in Ratmansky's steppy choreography and seemed…
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ABT – The Bright Stream – don’t be a fool and miss it
As Haglund walked to the Met last night, the skies darkened, the rain started to fall, and the temperature mercifully sank several degrees below the day's high of 97. Relief at last. Inside the…
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ABT – Lady of the Camellias – 6/7
In order to get out of the choking heat and humidity, Haglund went to the cool Metropolitan Opera House to see the sweltering, passionate meltdown of Marguerite and Armand. And when it was all…
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UIEX: NYCB Fourth Ring Society ending?
The Unofficial Information Exchange (UIEX) received a tip from a quasi-sort-of-official-anonymous-perhaps-reliable source that NYCB's popular Fourth Ring Society, which allows one to join for an initial payment of $20-25 and thereafter entitles the member…
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SF Examiner on Lady of the Camellias
Here's what the dance critic for the San Francisco Examiner said about the opening night performance of Lady of the Camellias: Sex sells for a reason. Everyone has it, or wants it. It relates…
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ABT – Lady of the Camellias – 6/4 mat & eve
Each viewing of Lady of the Camellias increasingly reveals how much choreographer John Neumeier admired Kenneth MacMillan. This probably explains why the New York Times dance critics, led by the critic who would like…