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 …
Peck + Robbins Program: Community is the Theme
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 …
NYCB Debuts Two Works: The Shaded Line, Lineage
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 …
Jewels Opens NYCB Fall Season
I’m thrilled that it’s finally ballet season after a long summer layoff. What better way to start the New York City Ballet fall season than with the Balanchine 1967 classic Jewels, which consists of with three plotless, unrelated segments: Emeralds, Rubies, …
Baryshnikov Interview on CNN Larry King Live, 2002
I recently ran across an old VHS recording I made of ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov on CNN’s Larry King Live (how many people know what a VHS tape is?). The interview was from May 2002 after publication of Joan Acocella’s …
First Look at Joshua Beamish @giselle
Photo of Catherine Hurlin by Craig Foster Jocelyn Delifer took a rehearsal sneak peek of Joshua Bemish’s @giselle a few weeks ago. Jocelyn works in New York as a financial analyst and cultivates a balance between his day job and …
NYCB Tickets on Sale for 2019/2020 Season
Above photo: Union Jack, January 24, 2014 New York City Ballet tickets for the 2019/2020 season are on sale. The Fall Season, which runs from September 17-October 13 features Balanchine classics Jewels, Serenade, Union Jack, Symphony in C, Tschaikovsky Piano …