ABT Soloist Sascha Radetsky announced Friday on Twitter that he will leave ABT after the Met season: “First rehearsal today for my last show with @ABTBallet, on July 3rd in Coppelia, with the lovely Xiomara Reyes” Sorry to see Sascha …
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MIxed Rep-March 27
Back from vacation and catching up on ballet news… ABT Heads West For Nutcracker in 2015 ABT announced that it will perform Alexei Ratmansky’s Nutcracker beginning in December 2015 at Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa, California. The company will give …
ABT Manon in Japan
Naomi Mori of Backtrack reviews ABT’s Manon, the company’s final Japan performance. Naomi reports that Manon returns to the ABT repertoire after a seven-year absence. ABT’s new Manon stage production is by Peter Farmer, consisting of pastel-color tones much lighter …
ABT All Star Gala Review
from Japan
Naomi Mori of Backtrack reviews ABT’s All Star Gala program from Tokyo, where the company is performing until March 2 (see her review of ABT’s Nutcracker in the previous post). She liked female leads Gillian Murphy and Skylar Brandt and …
ABT Nutcracker in Japan
ABT is performing in Japan until March 2. Here is a nice review by Naomi Mori of Backtrack of the February 20 Nutcracker performance with Veronika Part and Marcelo Gomes. I loved their opening night performance at BAM in December …
Mixed Rep, Feb. 25
New Sleeping Beauty Production for ABT in 2015 Great news for ABT. The New York Times reports the company will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a new production of Sleeping Beauty choreographed by Alexi Ratmansky. The ballet will be based …