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
Mikhailovsky Ballet at
Lincoln Center
I don’t make any money from my blog or photography website, but there are nice non-monetary benefits from my web activities. I attended a news and photography photo op this afternoon, which provides the press (and bloggers apparently) an opportunity …
Mariinsky at BAM
Mariinsky Ballet will perform at Brooklyn Academy of Music from January 15-24, its first appearance in New York in four years. Here is the schedule posted on the BAM site: Swan Lake Thursday Jan. 15 Viktoria Tereshkina and …
Stella Abrera Helping Philippines in Typhoon Recovery
After ABT’s Australia tour from August 28 to September 7, ABT Soloist Stella Abrera visited her native Philippines with a dual purpose: perform Giselle with Ballet Philippines and help schoolchildren in Guiuan, a city devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan last …
ABT Review, Nov. 1
I saw the premier of Raymonda Divertissements last week and was not impressed by the work, finding it unfocused and disjointed. However, I came away with a more positive view of the work Saturday evening with leads Paloma Herrera and Cory …
ABT Review, Oct. 30
Twyla Tharp’s Bach Partita was one of my favorites last year. ABT debuted the piece in 1983; the work had a long dry spell from 1985 to 2013, with ABT reviving it in the fall season last year. The piece is …
ABT Review, Oct. 25
Saturday evening’s programming consisted of ABT classics Jardin Aux Lilas (Lilac Garden), Fancy Free, and Sinfonietta. The casts for Jardin Aux Lilas and Fancy Free were the same as Thursday that I previously reviewed. Herman Cornejo, Marcelo Gomes, and Cory Stearns …