Tag: ballet blog
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NYCB 4/22 Agonizingly arbitrary
Last evening’s performance was slightly delayed when a very senior balletomane who had been brought to the theater by her son suddenly fell into an unwakeable sleep prompting concern for a medical emergency. It…
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NYCB scores a trifecta with Balanchine, Bizet, and Stravinsky
There he stood nearly motionless as the thundering brass of Stravinsky’s final notes of Firebird swirled around him. They were the notes of victory over the evil (albeit totally captivating and adorable) Kastchei and…
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observations 3/19
Earlier this week McHaglund O’Heel wandered over to Carnegie Hall to hang with the famous Irish fiddler Martin Hayes and The Common Ground Ensemble to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Hayes and the Ensemble have…
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ABT Mozartiana, Nuages, Firebird
The ballerina wasn’t the only one praying during the Mozartiana Preghiera section on Friday the 13th. After what seemed her interminable absence due to a resentful tendon in the foot, we were gratified and…
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ABT’s Othello – “Vintage has it all over new”
That’s one of the advertising tags for the current run of Arthur Miller’s masterpiece Death of a Salesman, first performed in 1949, which opened in previews on Friday night at the Winter Garden Theater.…
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NYCB 2/27–Diamond District Fraudulent Swap
A crime has been committed. New York City Ballet has gone full-frontal Trump with its gaudy, hideous re-design of Madame Karinska’s revered costumes for Balanchine’s Diamonds. What a way to destroy a tradition of…
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The Aurora we’ve been waiting for
After having our hearts broken three years ago when then-soloist Emma Von Enck was inexplicably passed over for casting as Aurora in New York City Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty, we finally emerged from the…
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It’s not too late
to order dinnerwear for tomorrow. Let’s keep the table conversation light and apolitical, and our snoods & wattles calm.
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observations 11/26
You know, Giving Tuesday is coming up. This year it’s on December 2nd. Nearly every non-profit organization appeals for donations including New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Let’s take a brief look…
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observations 11/15
So much casting has come out this week for various runs, but it’s missing important names. Why aren’t we seeing Ashley Hod and Jules Mabie cast as NYCB’s Sugarplum Fairy and Her Cavalier? Where…
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ABT 10/29 — We’ve already met. . .
Artistic Director Susan Jaffe appeared before the curtain and began the evening with a brief historical talk that emphasized that ABT does new, innovative works to keep the art form “alive.” The evening went…
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ABT 10/17 & 10/19
It was an exhausting weekend. Sandwiched between two performances of beloved 20th Century ballets made when the world was embroiled in conflict and revolutions, there was the No Kings March to protest the war…