It’s not often that I see a ballet step that I have not seen before, but that was the case when American Ballet Theatre’s Elisabeth Beyer posted an Instagram video from World Ballet Day in November 2023. In the brief …
Category: ABT
ABT Bad News: Shorter Met Season and Ratmansky Departs
Photo: Alexei Ratmansky and Amar Ramasar in Amar’s Final NYCB Performance, May 29, 2022 Recent American Ballet Theatre news of Alexei Ratmansky’s departure and the shortened Metropolitan Opera House Summer Season is depressing. Before Christmas, Ratmansky announced that he would …
New York Debut of Ratmansky’s Of Love and Rage
In an American Ballet Theatre Spring Season filled with old iconic warhorses that ballet fans have committed to memory, Alexei Ratmansky’s Of Love and Rage is a refreshing contrast. The work, which debuted at Segerstrom Center in March 2020 and …
ABT Returns to the Met: Don Quixote
American Ballet Theatre opened its Spring Season with Don Quixote at the Metropolitan Opera House Monday after a three-year absence due to COVID-19 (with a one-month delayed start due to the ridiculous extension of the Met Opera season, resulting in …
Daniil Simkin at Kennedy Center
New YouTube Video
Check out my latest YouTube video on Daniil Simkin. American Ballet Theatre performed Don Quixote at the Kennedy Center in March 2022. As I noted in my last video on Aran Bell, I value the immediacy social media provides on …
New Aran Bell Video
American Ballet Theatre performed Don Quixote at the Kennedy Center in March. The company posted a rehearsal video from Aran Bell’s Don Quixote Grand pas de deux variation. Bell’s variation is noteworthy for his top-notch execution and several unique innovations …