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A Merry Christmas from ABT – 12/22
Just when you thought that your due diligence (snooping) revealed everything that "Santa" was to bring on Christmas, you get a surprise gift that makes you sit back and wonder How did they know…
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Bolshoi Ballet – Nutcracker live-streamed 12/19
Art is Great. Yuri Grigorovich is Great. The Bolshoi is Simply Beyond Great. Haglund just saw his best ever Nutcracker. Hands down, the best he’s ever seen. Lord, does Grigorovich know how…
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The Nutcracker 12/17 – Joffrey Ballet School / Gelsey Kirkland Academy
Every so often we meet up at the bar during intermission, quite by accident, but we tend to frequent the same bars at the NY State Theater and the Met Opera House. We toast…
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ABT Nutcracker sneak peek
It’s coming together, Folks. It is REALLY coming together. Haglund spent the afternoon at a dress rehearsal for ABT’s new Nutcracker. This was a working dress rehearsal at the NJPAC where things looked…
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Peeps
There’s just something fundamentally wrong about chocolate reindeer Peeps. The little guys are on display in the candy aisle at the Duane Reade. Reindeer don’t peep. Haglund isn’t sure what kind of a sound…
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Ballet Cop on the Beat: Times to remember
In today's edition of The New York Times, Alastair Macaulay, who has no practical dance education whatsoever, reviews Mark Morris’s The Hard Nut. He calls it a “revelation” and “among the most touching” of…