The highlight of the second and final week of ABT’s fall season at Lincoln Center was Prodigal Son, with impressive performances by Jeffrey Cirio (Thursday) and Daniil Simkin (Friday) in the lead role. Both displayed great technique and gusto in …
Month: October 2016
ABT Review: Jessica Lang-Her Notes, Daphnis and Chloe
ABT’s Friday bill showcased Jessica Lang’s world premier of Her Notes. The work is an exciting explosion of movement, complexity, and mystery. The work merits multiple viewings given the intricate and nuanced patterns Lang presents, and I look forward to …
ABT Review: The Brahms-Haydn Variations
Checking on the ABT fall season schedule a few weeks ago, I was relieved to discover the first performance on my list coincided with the Clinton/Trump presidential debate. The debates, like a gruesome traffic accident on the highway, are both …
John Clifford New York City Ballet Videos on YouTube
John Clifford recently posted a number of great New York City Ballet (NYCB) videos on his YouTube channel. Clifford is a choreographer and Artistic Director at Los Angeles Dance Theater and was a Principal Dancer at NYCB from 1966-1974, founder of …
NYCB Review:
Classic NYCB, American Music
NYCB presented two delightful programs Thursday and Friday consisting of great classics danced at a high level. The dancing of the company this fall season has been outstanding with all of the favorite principals back from other projects, with the …
NYCB Jewels and Divertimento No. 15 Review, Sept 24, 30
NYCB presented Balanchine’s 1967 classic Jewels Friday. The idea for the ballet originated in Europe in the 1950s when Claude Arpels of the jewelry firm Van Cleef & Arpels suggested it to Balanchine, according to John Gruen’s The World’s Great Ballets. …