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NYCB – Looking forward
NYCB opens its Spring Season on Tuesday. Everyone hopes that the labor negotiations will be resolved but not without the dancers achieving a standard of compensation and benefits that reflects that they work in…
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NYCB labor negotiations
Haglund totally supports the NYCB dancers if they wish to strike. According to the 2008 Form 990, which was not filed until May 2010, Peter Martins made $723,000. (Wonder what he receives now.) The…
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Lumiere Ballet El Cid photo
Photographer Ben Gancsos was kind enough to supply this gorgeous photo below of Venti Petrov and Gabriela Gonzales in the Lumiere Ballet's production of El Cid which Haglund recently reviewed. Truly beautiful! Photo…
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Mariinsky photo
Unless you visit the Mariinsky website, you may not have seen this picture of Ulyana Lopatkina and Danila Korsuntsev in Swan Lake. It's one of Haglund's favorite's because of the beauty of the symmetry. …
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Lumiere Ballet’s El Cid 4/23
Community theater, community ballet theater, has a special place in the hearts of a lot of real New Yorkers, many of whom regularly seek it out as a supplement to "big house" productions. It's…
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ABT’s Gala Gaffes
The latest casting for the spring season as posted today includes a lot more minuses than pluses. Ethan Stiefel has withdrawn from all performances because he's not in performance condition. Duh. How many years…