Category: NYCB

NYCB’s Thursday performance of Masters at Work featured two dissimilar but delightful and cheery works: Balanchine’s 1965 Harlequinade and Jerome Robbins’ 1958 N.Y. Export, Opus Jazz.  Balanchine created the two-act Harlequinade for the 65th anniversary of the original production by …

NYCB’s 21st Century Choreographers program consists of five works from young choreographers. I saw the Friday performance-short at only 1 hour and 57 minutes-which will be repeated October 16 and the evening of the 17th. The pieces were interesting, but only …

Joaquin De Luz was one of my favorite dancers at ABT and I remember his great work in Balanchine’s Theme and Variations. He was always precise and exact in his movements filled with substantial athleticism in this challenging piece. Happy …

NYCB presented a celebration of dance set to American composers in Americana X Five Friday evening. My favorite of the evening was the comical Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, created for the 1936 Rodgers and Hart musical On Your Toes. This was …

Eagerly anticipating two Prince Siegfied debuts in NYCB’s Swan Lake from Russell Janzen and Zachary Catazaro, ballet fans had to settle for one as Zachary suffered an injury that denied him (hopefully temporarily) the coveted role. Zachary, injured in dress …

NYCB Principal Dancer Megan Fairchild will depart the Broadway revival of On The Town on August 9 to return to the NYCB, according to Broadwayworld.com. Megan will be succeeded by NYCB Soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, who will step into the role of …