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Back and forth across the plaza 10 Jun 2013 | 01:04 am
It's the final weekend of the NYCB's Spring Season, and so on Friday night I found myself sloshing through Hurricane Andrea to get to the State Theatre. On Saturday I went to Le Corsaire at the ABT, a...
Back to the NYCB 3 Jun 2013 | 06:33 am
Returning to the NYCB after the circusy Don Quixote of ABT was like a palette cleanser. Were the performances perfect? No, but I felt at all times that I was watching a remarkable company perform the ...
Don Quixote - The Osipova and Vasiliev Show 30 May 2013 | 01:58 am
The signature move of the Natalia Osipova/Ivan Vasiliev super-duper Don Quixote occurs late in the first act -- the move is a one-handed lift, with a ballerina holding a striking pose in the air for e...
Mixed Bill at ABT -- Actually Mixed 26 May 2013 | 08:19 pm
There are times when the ABT can seem like an excellent overall company. It can do some more modern works by Twayla Tharp or Mark Morris very well. The program started off with a spirited rendition of...
Love, drama, passion, suffering at the ABT 21 May 2013 | 09:53 pm
I once ran into an ex-boyfriend years after we broke up. It wasn't at all like The Way We Were or any movie where two exes see each other and all the feelings rush back. I barely remembered anything a...
Mrs. John Claggart's Sad Life 18 May 2013 | 07:29 pm
I once read a biography of Renata Tebaldi entitled Voice of An Angel. The book was filled with beautiful pictures of the legendary soprano, along with a fairly comprehensive outline of her life that f...
The Great Gatsby 13 May 2013 | 12:09 am
Baz Lurhmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby opened this weekend to mostly negative reviews from the critics. The criticisms were familiar: it was gaudy, it was tacky, it celebrated the very excesses...
NYCB: All American, All Balanchine 6 May 2013 | 12:50 am
I attended my first performance of the NYCB's spring season yesterday afternoon. The theme for the spring season is "American Music Festival" and yesterday's program was a rather eclectic collection o...
Cricket 28 Apr 2013 | 07:33 am
Our family dog Cricket passed away on April 10. She was two days shy of her 15th birthday. She went suddenly and painlessly, just lay down and never woke up. Sweet and obedient to the last, minutes b...
Ashley Bouder's Aurora 24 Feb 2013 | 09:16 pm
Last week I saw Tiler Peck's Aurora and thought nothing could positively top that wonderful Sleeping Beauty performance. Then last night I went back and saw Ashley Bouder's Aurora, and I realized that...
