Injuries to Principal Dancers Gillian Murphy, Maria Kochetkova, and Veronika Part caused major cast changes in American Ballet Theatre’s Le Corsaire this week. The changes allowed great young talents-Soloists Skylar Brandt and Christine Shevchenko-to smash through the rigid ABT hierarchy, …
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Shevchenko, Lendorf in Le Corsaire
Christine Shevchenko continued her great American Ballet Theatre season with a fine performance as Medora in Le Corsaire with Alban Ledorf as Conrad, the pirate. Christine has great technique and turning abilities, a necessity for this role. Although the performance …
Skylar Brandt Stars in Le Corsaire
American Ballet Theatre did what is does best Thursday evening in Le Corsaire, providing an evening filled with technically brilliant bravura dancing. Check out my curtain call photos on my photography website notmydayjobphotography.com. Look for my review Saturday. In the meantime, here …
ABT Giselle Review: Gomes, Hallberg, Stearns
American Ballet Theatre celebrated Marcelo Gomes’ 20th anniversary with the company Tuesday evening in front of a raucous crowd. As is customary in such events, Marcelo gave numerous curtain call bows to an appreciative audience, with past and present ABT …
Marcelo Gomes 20th Anniversary ABT Celebration
I posted curtain call photos of the American Ballet Theatre performance of Giselle Tuesday evening on my photography website notmydayjobphotography.com. It was a special evening celebrating Marcelo Gomes and his 20 great years with ABT. More thoughts tomorrow on the memorable …
David Hallberg Returns in Giselle!
David Hallberg returned to the Met stage in the American Ballet Theatre Giselle Saturday, a triumphant and emotional performance with Gillian Murphy as Giselle (for curtain call photos, see my photography website notmydayjobphotography.com). David has been out since 2014 after several ankle …