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ABT – From Classic to Premieres – 5/24 & 5/25
Sometimes dancing just for the sake of dancing is like talking just for the sake of talking. Last evening ABT opened the first of a sequence of four performances of mixed repertory entitled From…
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ABT – More guest artists
What an incredible failure on the part of the entire ABT artistic management team that it chooses to add yet another guest artist to its spring season. When is the Board of Directors going…
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ABT – Don Q – When sweet is not enough – 5/23
Sweet will take you a long way with the ballet audience at The Met. The audience will forgive most anything so long as there is sweetness to admire. Tonight Alina Cojocaru personified sweetness in…
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NYCB – Fearful Symmetries, The Dreamer,
La Sonnambula 5/22What a Sunday matinee! Peter Martins should rename his piece Fearsome Symmetries. Today his choreography was knocked out with fearless authority by Sterling Hyltin & Chase Finlay, Tiler Peck & Taylor Stanley, Lauren King…
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NYCB – All Robbins – 5/21
After preparing all day yesterday for the End of the World – laundry done, litterbox changed, checkbook balanced, recycle bins emptied – what did we get at 6PM? A couple of dark clouds and…
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ABT – Corella to dance in Giselle w/Reyes
Praise the Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. According to the ABT calendar on its website, Angel Corella will be stepping in for the injured Herman Cornejo to dance Albrecht to Xiomara Reyes'…