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Miami City Ballet @ Lincoln Center 4/13-14-15
When a ballet company other than New York City Ballet performs a Balanchine work in New York, the reaction is usually “Ugh, why?” – except in the case of Miami City Ballet where the…
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Bocca brewings 4/13
Here is yet another reference to an offer by ABT to Julio Bocca in El Pais (second paragraph) in which the author advocates that Uruguay use Bocca's departure as an opportunity to build from…
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Miami City Ballet opens tonight
Haglund is quivering with excitement at the prospect of our own Simone Messmer debuting in the lead of Balanchine's Serenade when Miami City Ballet opens at Lincoln Center tonight. It is such a relief…
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Bocca brewings continued
Here is an in depth article from Uruguay's El Telescopio that gives a thoughtful analysis and rundown of the matters that led Ballet Nacional Sodre to its present crisis. The writer cautions not to…
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High Strung
High Strung, the movie that opened nationwide yesterday starring the former Mariinsky dancer Keenan Kampa, an American, and Nicholas Galitzine (The Beat Beneath My Feet – 2014), was a pleasant surprise. No violence, no…
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Bocca brewings
Thanks to Haglund'eeler, NewYorkie, for sending us this link from the Uruguayan weekly newspaper that says after six years at the helm of BNS, Julio Bocca has been offered $1 million per year to…