Duncan Lyle Dance at Martha Graham Studio Theater Nov 18-19

November 7, 2019

Above photo by Rod Brayman: front-Lauren Post, Betsy McBride; back-Carlos Gonzolez, Isadora Loyola, Patrick Frenette, Rachel Richardson, Jose Sebastian. Now that the American Ballet Theatre fall season ended two weeks ago, not much is going on in the New York …

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Herman Cornejo 20th Anniversary ABT Celebration

October 27, 2019

I posted photos of last night’s celebration of Herman Cornejo’s 20th anniversary at American Ballet Theatre on my photography website, notmydayjobphotography.com. The all Herman evening was a celebration of his great talents starting with Apollo, his ABT debut in the …

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ABT Second Week: New Romantics, Apollo, and Beach Boys

October 26, 2019

American Ballet Theatre’s New Romantics program featured two new works and one from last year. James Whiteside’s New American Romance, which debuted in July at the Vail Dance Festival, is a compelling piece (see photo above with Joo Won Ahn, …

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Ratmansky Seasons Highlights ABT First Week

October 20, 2019

Alicia Alonzo, former American Ballet Theatre great and founder of National Ballet of Cuba, passed away Thursday. Coincidently, ABT performed Theme and Variations that evening, a work that George Balanchine created for her and Igor Youskevitch in 1947 at Ballet …

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Peck + Robbins Program: Community is the Theme

October 6, 2019

Community was the theme in the New York City Ballet Robbins + Peck program Thursday with Jerome Robbins’ 1969 Dances at a Gathering and Justin Peck’s 2014 Everywhere We Go. Both explore human interactions in group dynamics as dancers work …

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NYCB Debuts Two Works: The Shaded Line, Lineage

September 29, 2019

New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Lovette’s new work The Shaded Line is for the young and woke. Unfortunately, I am neither. The work, which debuted Thursday, is a continuation of Lovette’s exploration of gender norms and conformity in society …

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