I opened up my ABT Met season with a great Giselle performance Wednesday afternoon featuring Sarah Lane and Daniil Simkin (I posted a few curtain call photos on my photography website notmydayjobphotography.com). Given the quality performance, I’m not sure why the …
Category: ABT
Misty Copeland and the Fouetté Video
Above Photo: Misty Copeland and Herman Cornejo, June 17, 2017. I discussed Misty Copeland’s technical issues in two previous reviews from last year’s American Ballet Theatre Met season: Don Quixote and Swan Lake. In general, in difficult technical segments, Misty tends …
Dreary ABT Fall Season Finally Ends
American Ballet Theatre’s Fall season came to an end today, the least successful Fall season I can remember (I think the first ABT Fall season at City Center was in 1998). The season featured several good works (Serenade after Plato’s …
ABT Fall Season 2017: More of the Same
ABT’s Fall Season makes heavy use works that have debuted or revived in the last several years. Works Thursday/Friday/Saturday evening consisted of two performances of Her Notes (debuted last year); two of Seranade after Plato’s Symposium (debuted in the 2016 …
Robert Fairchild Leaves NYCB;
Daniil Simkin Joins Staatsballett
Above Photo: Robert Fairchild, Career Transition for Dancers Benefit, September 28, 2015-New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Robert Fairchild will leave at the end of the NYCB fall season to devote more time to his Broadway career, according to an …
NYCB, ABT Fall Seasons Upcoming
Above photo: Sterling Hyltin and Andrew Veyette, Swan Lake, September 24, 2015 August is a slow month in the New York City ballet scene with the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre fall seasons providing something to look forward …