2018 has been an action packed year in the New York ballet scene. My highlights and lowlights: ABT Young Women Emerge American Ballet Theatre featured many great young women in 2018, particularly Christine Shevchenko, Devon Teuscher, Skylar Brandt, and Cassandra …
Category: Ballet-General
Story of the Nutcracker Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Top photo: Sabina Alvarez, Gelsey Kirkland Ballet Nutcracker, December 2015. One of my favorite YouTube channels is Polyphonic, which explores popular music. The videos by a Canadian music journalist are sometimes technical and always interesting. Examples include discussions of Freddie …
City Center Celebrates Balanchine Classics
New York City Center, as part of its 75th anniversary season, is presenting Balanchine: The City Center Years with works from eight leading companies, a sort of all-star production. New York City Ballet’s first performance was in 1948 at City …
ABT DVD Dry Spell Continues
Above photo: World Premier of Alexei Ratmansky’s Harlequinade, my suggestion for an ABT DVD. Two years ago, I wrote an article on the distribution of the product of dance. I examined major ballet companies on their efforts to expand audiences through …
Dance Theatre of Harlem at Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Photo: Stephanie Ray Williams and Da’Von Doane, Dialogues, April 2017. Lincoln Center Out of Doors will feature Dance Theatre of Harlem Saturday at 7:30 pm at the Damrosch Park Bandshell next to the Metropolitan Opera House. I’ve always enjoyed DTH …
Fall Season Tickets: ABT, NYCB, Balanchine City Center
Above photo; Marcelo Gomes, Cory Stearns, Herman Cornejo, Fancy Free, October 25, 2014. There is much going on in the New York City ballet scene this fall with interesting works from American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and a …