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ABT – Airs / La Sylphide – Part, Stearns, Salstein 6/20
All the way home on the train after seeing the final performance of ABT‘s Airs/La Sylphide, Haglund sparred with his internal editor. She can be such a humorless b____. But tonight she’s twirling around…
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ABT – Airs – Stewart; La Sylphide – Ananiashvili & Hallberg 6/16
Last night’s performance of Airs with a cast made up of corps members Kelley Boyd, Simone Messmer, Luciana Paris, Leann Underwood, Roddy Doble, Joseph Phillips, and Sean Stewart just proved that Sean Stewart must…
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ABT – Airs, La Sylphide – 6/15
After an exhilarating and exhausting week of Giselles, ABT opened the second half of its Met season with a program that included Paul Taylor’s Airs and Bournonville’s La Sylphide. The dancers took to Airs…
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Thanks, Mr. Wolcott.
Thanks for the shout-out for Haglund's Heel yesterday in your Vanity Fair blog entry about Osipova's Giselle! Much appreciated and quite unexpected.
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ABT – Giselle – Osipova, Hallberg 6/13
For the first few minutes last night, Haglund thought that perhaps we were coming out of the starting gate with the mad scene. Giselle scrunched up her face, whined and sniveled uncontrollably, went back and…
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ABT – Giselle – Riccetto, Cornejo 6/13
Substituting on very short notice for an injured Xiomara Reyes, Maria Riccetto performed only the third Giselle of her career. Herman Cornejo as Albrecht performed his fourth. Both are works in early process. Both are…