Ballet Focus

Duncan Lyle Dance presented four works Monday and Tuesday in the cozy Martha Graham Studio Theater. The American Ballet Theater dancer choreographed the works, performed by fellow ABT dancers Patrick Frenette, Carlos Gonzalez, Andrii Ishchuk, Isadora Loyola, Betsey McBride, Rachel …

Above photo: Stella Abrera, Giselle, May 23, 2015 American Ballet Theatre released its schedule and casting for its 2020 Met season, May 11-July 4. This will be ABT’s last eight-week spring season in the Metropolitan Opera House. In an attempt …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …