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Viva Argentina and NYCB’s Petiparina!
There is a saying that the devil is in the details. In Petipa's ballets, particularly The Sleeping Beauty, the devil, God, truth, peril, and all beauty dwell within the details. It takes a smartly…
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. . . to help us speculate about spring casting
Here is the full casting for ABT's first two performances of Symphony in C in Hong Kong as it appears in the performance program. It may help us speculate about who we'll see in…
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Books
There seem to be more than a few new ballet books coming our way in 2013. Dancing on Water: A Life in Ballet, from the Kirov to the ABTElena Tchernichova, Joel Lobenthal, Joseph BrodskyScheduled…
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Edward Villella will chair jury at 2014 USA Int’l Ballet Competition in Jackson, MS
He will be only the third jury chairman in the history of the quadrennial competition established in 1979 and which next convenes in June of 2014. The first chairman was Robert Joffrey, and the…
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Who is the new NYT Culture Editor?
Still no announcement. He or she had better get installed fast, judging from the immediate and fast decline in the quality of the dance criticism. Macaulay on PNB's first night: "All levels of the…
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NYCB – The Sleeping Beauty – 2/13
So, after a week of ugly, malicious, and downright beastly controversy over who would be this year's Top Dog – and the widespread disappointment that the honor didn't go to a "big dog breed"…