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ABT – Don Quixote – 5/17
Good dancing, good music tonight at the opening performance of Don Quixote as Paloma Herrera and Jose Manuel Carreno performed for the last time together in New York at The Met. Their love, respect,…
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ABT gala with a small g – 5/16
It was probably completely lost on ABT's management that the most enthusiasm and appreciation from the gala audience was awarded to a PdD by a choreographer who ABT seems to be boycotting the rest…
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Camellias and white powdered sugar
There probably is no connection between these two pictures except that they are two things that have extreme effects on the human system. Haglund plans to see four Camellias in the coming weeks to…
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Dances Patrelle – GILBERT & SULLIVAN,
The Ballet! – 5/13Arthur Sullivan was born on this day 169 years ago. To celebrate, Dances Patrelle poured champagne for the whole audience during intermission at tonight's presentation of GILBERT & SULLIVAN, The Ballet! It was one…
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ABT – The Guest Artist Drain
2009 $110,0002008 $73,0002007 $173,273 Those are just the reported fees paid to the guest artists for those years. The actual expenses relating to transportation, accommodations, special rehearsals and coaching, insurance, costumes, and the added…
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NYCB – Not perfectly sinful, but pretty good.
At an informal talk on Monday where Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Patti LuPone, and Wendy Whelan discussed the new production of The Seven Deadly Sins, Ms. LuPone made a point of saying that she had brought…