I am a ballet fan and photographer living in New York City. You can see my work, which focuses on curtain calls of ballet dancers, houses of worship, and landscapes at
notmydayjobphotography.
Author: KentGBecker
$400,000 for Stagehands?
While eating my cereal this morning, I was floored by an article in The New York Times on a strike by stagehands at Carnegie Hall. The stagehands, who do everything from moving pianos to unloading instruments from trucks to configuring …
James Whiteside Promoted to
Principal Dancer at ABT
James Whiteside was promoted to Principal Dancer at ABT today. He is a favorite of The New York Times dance critic Alaistair Macaulay and was featured in a Times article several weeks ago as a Mover and Shaper in the …
New York City Ballet
Balanchine in Black & White
Sept 28, 2013
Watching a full-length classical ballet is easy because the plot is formulaic: boy meets girl and they either die or live happily ever after. Balanchine modernist ballets are a much more difficult task to interpret, similar to viewing an abstract …
New York City Ballet Balanchine
Black & White Reviews
Here are links to three reviews of New York City Ballet’s Balanchine Black & White: The Four Temperaments, Episodes, Duo Concertant, Symphony in Three Movements. Haglund’s Heel Blog Alastair Macaulay in The New York Times Very nice symmetry in photo …
American Ballet Theatre
Nutcracker at BAM
After settling on tickets for American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT) Nutcracker at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), it struck me that real estate is not the only thing substantially more expensive in Manhattan relative to Brooklyn. Ticket prices for New …
Photos From Cadillac Mountain,
Acadia National Park, Maine
While vacationing in Boothbay Harbor, Maine in August, our family took a 2-day trip to Acadia National Park, several hundred miles north. The National Park is quite a bargain with a 7-day pass at $20, providing access to miles of …