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
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Author: KentGBecker
NYCB Winter Season Wrap-Up
NYCB’s Winter season was immensely entertaining, filled with high level dancing and innovative new and classic choreography. Highlights: Individual Performances As I noted in my Fall NYCB wrap-up, the women at NYCB are outstanding and would be great dancers at any …
Hallberg Injured;
Ballet San Jose May Close
Hallberg Out For ABT Met Season ABT announced today that David Hallberg is injured and will not dance in the Met season starting in May. The press release said that the withdrawal allows him “…to focus on his recovery from …
NYCB All Balanchine, Feb 28
NYCB presented an all Balanchine program Saturday night with Donizetti Variations (1960), La Valse (1951), and Chaconne (1976). Donizetti Variations is a bright, cheerful, and light piece with Ashley Bouder and Joaquin De Luz as the lead couple. Balanchine created …
NYCB American Composers,
Feb 26
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 …
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 …