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NYCB – A tipsy close to the Fall Season
Did the dancers of Sunday's finale enjoy drinks before closing down the office with Symphony in C? Oy. Ashley Bouder and Joseph Gordon leading the First Movement were nothing but business as they stapled down every…
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observations 10/11
Mariinsky Ballet Artistic Director Yuri Fateev told the Washington DC bureau of Sputnik News that next year ABT will host Kimin Kim to dance in the 40th anniversary celebration of Natalia Makarova's staging of…
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NYCB’s Week 3 – Full of starlight
Perhaps our strange compulsion to pick up and buy all things plaid will subside now that Union Jack has been stored away for the season. What a terrific run it was for this old…
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observations 10/4
Tickets for ABT's fall season at the Koch Theater have been on Goldstar for quite some time. ($25-54) There's no suggestion of a bogus, obnoxious Costume Fee like the one they've loaded onto the…
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NYCB – Slapsticks and finger-pointing
Last week left Haglund with a percussion concussion. The relentless advancing cadence of the drums in Balanchine’s Union Jack and the cacophonous cymbal-crashing, drum-beating advocacy in Lauren Lovette’s new The Shaded Line all gave…
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Calm is her super power
Sitting through the shimmer and glimmer of five performances of Jewels last week was certainly worth the increased posterior spread. And we wouldn’t have missed the first performances of Raymonda Variations or Variations Pour une…