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
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from balletfocus.com and notmydayjobphotography.com. Above is a beautiful stained glass window from Saint Jean Baptiste Church at 76th Street between Lexington and 3rd Avenues in Manhattan. The stained glass artist was Charles Lorin. You can see Lorin’s “signature” …
ABT Nutcracker at BAM
Sad to see that this is ABT’s last season of Nutcracker at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Beginning December 2015, ABT will perform at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California. When ABT announced the new Alexei …
Mixed Rep-Dec. 17
Guillaume Côté Injured Bad news from Canada. National Ballet of Canada Principal Dancer and sometime ABT guest artist Guillaume Côté suffered a severe knee injury Saturday, tearing his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) during a Nutcracker performance in Toronto, according to TheStar.com. According …
Gelsey Kirkland Ballet Nutcracker
Gelsey Kirkland Ballet’s Nutcracker production is on a smaller scale relative to more grand, elaborate, and expensive NYCB and ABT works. Although smaller in stature in the intimate Schimmel Center at Pace University in downtown Manhattan, the work packs quality …
SAB on PBS Sunday
Live From Lincoln Center on PBS will present NYCB’s School of American Ballet (SAB) Sunday, December 14 at 12:30-2 on WNET Chanel 13 in New York. NYCB has been featured on Live From Lincoln Center many times since the first …
Nutcracker News:
Kirkland Ballet, Maria Kochetkova
Gelsey Kirkland Ballet Nutcracker Gelsey Kirkland Ballet performs at Schimmel Center at Pace University near the Brooklyn Bridge, December 11-14 and 18-21. Ticket prices for Gelsey’s Nutcracker are a reasonable $39, $49, and $59. Check out Balletfocus this weekend for …