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PA Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet, a stunning achievement
Since Angel Corella took the directorship of Pennsylvania Ballet five years ago, he has hurled huge challenge after huge challenge at the company. It has been startling to watch the Intel-like turbo-burst speed with…
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NYCB – stars rising
Interim leader Jon Stafford announced this afternoon that Joseph Gordon has been promoted to principal dancer and that Daniel Applebaum, Harrison Coll, Claire Kretzschmar, Aaron Sanz, Sebastian Villarini-Velez and Peter Walker have been promoted…
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PA Ballet – Romeo and Juliet company premiere 10/11
More on this tomorrow, but just a brief note to say that last evening's Romeo and Juliet with Sterling Baca and Lillian Di Piazza was one of the most honest, fully danced, fully lived…
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NYCB 10/10 – Getting back to big house ballet
New York City Ballet returned to “big house ballet” on Wednesday evening. The large (paying) crowd was enthusiastic about the program’s three masterpieces: Balanchine’s Prodigal Son sandwiched between Robbins’ Fancy Free and West Side…
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NYCB Sat 9/29 Mat & Eve
Huxley in La Sylphide – As if to the manner bornOn Saturday evening, Anthony Huxley returned to the role of James in La Sylphide, which in 2015 vaulted him to his appointment as principal dancer along with his partner at the time, Lauren Lovette.…
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Like a lame Carson joke
How bad was it?!It was so bad that the Citizen App on Haglund's phone sent him an alert that a crime was in process at Lincoln Center. Twice. We are, of course, talking about New York City…