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10/12 Update: ABT fall casting dribbling in
Some of the casting for the performances at Bard has been posted. The only surprise so far is that Paloma Herrera is performing Sinatra Suite with Marcelo Gomes. Hopefully, the City Center casting will…
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NYCB – Square Dance, Fearful Symmetries, West Side Story Suite – 10/8
Despite the high level of dancing seen these past four weeks and despite having attended far fewer performances than usual, Haglund is relieved that NYCB's Fall Season is finished. The deceitful and disrespectful manner…
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Stiefel’s ABT retirement (and other) plans
Ethan Stiefel told reporter Valerie Lawson of The Australian that his 2012 spring performances in Le Corsaire and Swan Lake with ABT at The Met will probably be his last with the company. The…
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NYCB – The Jerry Dancers honored – 9/30
True. Last night's presentation of The Jerome Robbins Award to 26 NYCB ballerinas, who used their extraordinary artistry over a sixty-plus year span to bring his work to life, was not an official NYCB…
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NYC Down Under
Ethan Stiefel's 2012 season for the Royal New Zealand Ballet begins with a program called "NYC" – get it? It actually stands for New Young Classic and will be a program consisting of three…
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Snack on this
If new ballets acquired by the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre could spend six weeks in a Broadway-style out-of-town tryout in a suburban Toronto theater, we might get a lot better…