Andrea Lois Becker points me to a video of Herman Cornejo and Xiomara Reyes in Le Sprectre de la rose from Herman’s YouTube channel. Herman performs this role in ABT’s fall season with Sarah Lane and is simply brilliant. His …
Month: October 2015
ABT Review, Oct. 23 and 24
ABT’s Fall Season program is diversified, with a nice mix of classics (Company B, The Green Table, Monotones I and II) along with newer works (After You, The Brahms-Haydn Variations). For some reason, attendance seems up substantially from last year …
ABT Review, Oct. 22
ABT’s Thursday mixed rep program had an interesting mix: Twyla Tharp’s The Brahms-Haydn Variations (2000) last performed by ABT in 2010; Ashton’s modernist Monotones I and II (1965); and Jooss’ World War I drama The Green Table (1932). Tharp’s work …
ABT Met Season Casting Announced!…sort of
The Met Opera House website released casting for ABT’s Spring Season…but took the information down yesterday. This might have been a glitch as ABT usually releases casting in a press release posted in its website. Anyway, here are highlights: 1. David …
Mixed Rep-Oct. 19
Gomes to Receive Dance Magazine Award ABT’s Marcelo Gomes will be one of five dance luminaries to receive the 2015 Dance Magazine Award along with lamenco star Soledad Barrio, National Ballet of Canada artistic director Karen Kain, dance historian, and archivist David …
NYCB Harlequinade and Opus Jazz, Oct 15
NYCB’s Thursday performance of Masters at Work featured two dissimilar but delightful and cheery works: Balanchine’s 1965 Harlequinade and Jerome Robbins’ 1958 N.Y. Export, Opus Jazz. Balanchine created the two-act Harlequinade for the 65th anniversary of the original production by …