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New Kenneth MacMillan Website!
The MacMillan Estate has launched its fantastic new website. It contains some rare video footage including a clip of Irek Mukhamedov, Leanne Benjamin and Michael Nunn in the body-chalking / gang effort segment of…
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On Haglund’s Calendar – NYCB Nutcracker 12/20
Ms. Gilliland will be the lovely Sugarplum Fairy at the matinee. Not to be missed! SUNDAY MATINEE, DECEMBER 20, 1:00 PM (Conductor: Sill) SUGARPLUM: Gilliland; CAVALIER: J. Stafford; DEWDROP: Hyltin; HERR DROSSELMEIER: Kramarevsky+; MARZIPAN: Laracey;…
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ABT casting update. Serenity Prayer needed.
Oh Heavenly Father, grant me the ire to complain about what I cannot change, enough wrath to hold a grudge forever, and indignation that is uncontainable. Amen. And so, ABT has filled in a…
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Balletonomics
Marginal Utility Theory as it Pertains to Performing Pirouettes Where the choreography calls for a triple pirouette, the incremental intensity of the dancer’s joy in performing 4, 5 or more revolutions will increase at…
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New ABT Nutcracker by Ratmansky
at BAM beginning in 2010The New York Times reports that ABT will announce tomorrow that it will establish a Nutcracker franchise at the Brooklyn Academy of Music beginning in 2010. The new choreography will be by Alexei Ratmansky…
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Sarah Lane’s Giselle Debut – LakeCities Ballet Theatre
Haglund was visiting the website of LakeCities Ballet Theatre, a regional company with a highly-acclaimed conservatory in the northern Texas city of Lewisville, because he had read that Julie Kent and Sascha Radetsky were…