NYBC’s Thursday mixed rep performance with a theme of American composers consisted of some of my favorite works: Hallelujah Junction (2001), Interplay (1952), and Glass Pieces (1983), along with Tarantella (1964). The music for Hallelujah Junction and Glass Pieces is …
Month: February 2015
Peck as Miss Turnstiles;
ABT Sleeping Beauty
Tiler Peck as Miss Turnstiles NYCB Principal Dancer Tiler Peck will replace Megan Fairchild as Miss Turnstiles in six performances in the Broadway production of On the Town: March 3 at 7pm, March 4 at 2pm and 8pm, March 14 …
Hudson on ABT Sleeping Beauty
I’m excited about ABT’s new production of Sleeping Beauty by Alexei Ratmansky, which will debut at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Orange County, California in a little over a week, running from March 3-8. The sets look spectacular …
Olivia Cowley Debuts New
Ballet and Fashion Website
Olivia Cowley, Soloist at The Royal Ballet, has a new website. balletstyle.co.uk explores two of her passions, ballet and fashion. The site gives readers a behind the scenes look into the ballet world and a sense of her fashion tastes after …
ABT Sleeping Beauty Auditions,
Segerstrom Center
ABT is looking for supernumerary actors (extras) for the premier of ABT’s Sleeping Beauty March 3-8 at Segerstrom Center in California. Auditions will be held Sunday, February 22 at 5 pm at the Judy Morr Theater, Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa, …
NYCB Romeo+Juliet
Valentine’s Day
Koch Theater was a popular place Saturday evening on Valentine’s Day for NYCB’s Romeo+Juliet, with occupied seats in the rarely-filled fifth ring extreme sides and long lines for the men’s restroom at intermission (always my indicator of a packed house). …