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ABT – Lady of the Camellias – 6/7
In order to get out of the choking heat and humidity, Haglund went to the cool Metropolitan Opera House to see the sweltering, passionate meltdown of Marguerite and Armand. And when it was all…
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UIEX: NYCB Fourth Ring Society ending?
The Unofficial Information Exchange (UIEX) received a tip from a quasi-sort-of-official-anonymous-perhaps-reliable source that NYCB's popular Fourth Ring Society, which allows one to join for an initial payment of $20-25 and thereafter entitles the member…
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SF Examiner on Lady of the Camellias
Here's what the dance critic for the San Francisco Examiner said about the opening night performance of Lady of the Camellias: Sex sells for a reason. Everyone has it, or wants it. It relates…
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ABT – Lady of the Camellias – 6/4 mat & eve
Each viewing of Lady of the Camellias increasingly reveals how much choreographer John Neumeier admired Kenneth MacMillan. This probably explains why the New York Times dance critics, led by the critic who would like…
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ABT – OMG Lady of the Camellias – 6/3
Even consumption is beautiful at the ballet. If you love theater, if you love drama, if you love ballet, if you love Chopin, you'd better beg, borrow, or steal your way to The Metropolitan…
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ABT – Giselle – 6/2
Giselle Week concluded with another astonishingly beautiful performance by Diana Vishneva, Marcelo Gomes, and Veronika Part. Tonight's final performance happened to occur exactly 34 years to the day when the historic Makarova/Baryshnikov Giselle was…