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Author: KentGBecker
Gillian Murphy on Pirouettes
I love watching great dancers perform pirouettes, with endless turns done effortlessly. However, I know how difficult pirouettes are as I struggled with them in may dancing days many years ago; no matter how much I watched Mikhail Baryshnikov video …
ABT Review: Oct. 29, 30
The ABT fall season, which concludes today, consisted of diverse, exciting repertory danced at a high level, filled with energy and dynamism. New and established dancers were up to the challenge of the multifaceted rep, consisting of new works and …
Herman Cornejo in
Le Spectre de la rose
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 …
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 …