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NYCB – Opening Night Spring Season 2011
NYCB received a warm reception upon opening its Spring Season Tuesday with the first evening of a week of Black & White programs – programs consisting of those Balanchine ballets which were costumed in…
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Ukulele Festival @ Alvin Ailey Center
Edukated Fleas Whistling Wolves Les Chaud Lapins (the hot rabbits) Tripping Lily Pre-war Ponies If you don't frequent The Uke Hut over on Fifth Avenue around 32nd Street (Thurs & Fri in the basement…
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NYCB – Looking forward
NYCB opens its Spring Season on Tuesday. Everyone hopes that the labor negotiations will be resolved but not without the dancers achieving a standard of compensation and benefits that reflects that they work in…
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NYCB labor negotiations
Haglund totally supports the NYCB dancers if they wish to strike. According to the 2008 Form 990, which was not filed until May 2010, Peter Martins made $723,000. (Wonder what he receives now.) The…
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Lumiere Ballet El Cid photo
Photographer Ben Gancsos was kind enough to supply this gorgeous photo below of Venti Petrov and Gabriela Gonzales in the Lumiere Ballet's production of El Cid which Haglund recently reviewed. Truly beautiful! Photo…
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Mariinsky photo
Unless you visit the Mariinsky website, you may not have seen this picture of Ulyana Lopatkina and Danila Korsuntsev in Swan Lake. It's one of Haglund's favorite's because of the beauty of the symmetry. …