Recently, few male dancers at New York City Ballet have excelled in Petipa full-length ballets. Although refined in Balanchine/Robbins works, they struggle in 19th century “white-tights” ballets. The men’s efforts often have a “Let’s get through this performance…I don’t do …
NYCB Sleeping Beauty Off to Rocky Start
New York City Ballet opened its two-week Sleeping Beauty run Wednesday with a lackluster performance with little distinction and a few rough edges. Sterling Hyltin was Princess Aurora with Russell Janzen making his debut as Prince Désiré. Both score low on …
NYCB Sleeping Beauty;
Lausanne Ballet Competition
Above photo: Lauren Lovette and Gonzalo Garcia, Sleeping Beauty, February 16, 2017 Look forward to New York City Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty next week. The company usually performs a full-length production over Valentine’s Day and, thankfully, it is avoiding the dreadful …
NYCB Premier: Peck’s Principia
Justin Peck’s Principia, which debuted Friday before a packed house at Koch Theater as part of New York City Ballet’s New Combinations program, is an uplifting work filled with a sense of community and belonging, in contrast to his defiant …
NYCB Season Opens With Balanchine Classics
New York City Ballet opened its winter season with all Balanchine classics, with Friday consisting of works to Tschaikovsky and Saturday evening to Stravinsky. Friday presented Serenade with Megan LeCrone/Sara Mearns/Tiler Peck/Jared Angle/Aaron Sanz as leads. The last time I saw …
Balletfocus 2018 Highlights
2018 has been an action packed year in the New York ballet scene. My highlights and lowlights: ABT Young Women Emerge American Ballet Theatre featured many great young women in 2018, particularly Christine Shevchenko, Devon Teuscher, Skylar Brandt, and Cassandra …