ABT announced Tuesday that Principal Dancers Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent and Xiomara Reyes will retire at the end of the 2015 Met season. Paloma will give her farewell on June 9 as Princess Aurora in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty. Julie Kent …
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Herrera, Kent, Reyes to Retire
ABT announced yesterday that Principal Dancers Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent and Xiomara Reyes will retire at the end of the 2015 Met season. Will miss them. More thoughts tonight.
Stella Abrera as Giselle in
The Philippines
The Twitter account for Stella Abrera’s charity Steps Forward for the Philippines links to Jude Bautista’s great coverage of Stella’s Giselle performance in Manila Friday with ABT Principal Dancer James Whiteside. The performance was threatened by a bad storm that hit …
Yuriko Kajiya and Jared Matthews in Houston
The Houston Chronicle has a nice interview with former ABT Soloists Jared Matthews and Yuriko Kajiya on life in their new home. The two will dance the leads in the grand classical showpiece Paquita on the mixed rep program that …
Mixed Rep-Sept. 16
David Hallberg Injury Update David Hallberg tweets that his cast is off. He had foot surgery in August and said earlier that he plans to return to the stage in “a couple of months.” NYCB Dancers on Broadway The New York …
Stella Abrera in the Philippines
ABT Soloist Stella Abrera will perform the lead role in Giselle with Ballet Philippines at Manila’s Cultural Center for the Philippines on Friday. ABT Principal Dancer James Whiteside will perform the role of Albrecht. For Stella, who lived in the Philippines …