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“A” is for Articulation
NYCB makes it as clear as black & white 4/28-29During the first two days of its Balanchine Black & White week, New York City Ballet fielded nine masterpieces with such clarity, graceful force, joy, and supreme artistry that it suggested a new zenith…
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Garbage in, garbage out at ABT
Manipulation & misuse of unverified statistics to promote a faulty star strategyHow nauseating it was to observe the self-satisfied smirking of ABT’s chief financial officer, William Taylor, as he ticked off one false statement after another as justification for ABT’s secret “Star Strategy” during a…
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How did this even get into the news?
Fifteen-year-old Gearóid Solan has been accepted into the upper level of the Royal Ballet School at Covent Garden beginning with the fall term having received a waiver to the minimum entrance age requirement of…
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The crime of waste at ABT
How does McKenzie sleep at night? How can he continue to deny ABT's audience the opportunity to see the glorious Stella Abrera perform Giselle, the role that she was destined to dance and…
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observations 4/16
Now here's a book that Haglund couldn't pre-order fast enough on Amazon after reading this morning's NYT review of it in the Music section. Reynold Levy, who left his job in 2014 as President…
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Reports from Down Under re: Stella Abrera’s Giselle
More Updates (scroll down and see comments) We'll update as we receive more. This report just into H.H. from Anna C. after the second performance at the Australian Ballet which concluded an hour or…