PBS News Hour had an interesting segment earlier in the week on Jacques d’Amboise’s National Dance Institure. d’Amboise founded NDI in 1976, which works with New York City school children through weekly classes, short-term residencies, and public performances. NDI currently partners …
Category: NYCB
NYCB Kennedy Center Reviews
Reviews from NYCB’s Kennedy Center performances that wrapped up Sunday: The Economist Curmudgeons grumble that the ballets are not performed so well now as when they were first made. But even seasoned ballet-goers cannot help but revel in NYCB’s dancing …
NYCB Winter Season Wrap-Up
NYCB’s Winter season was immensely entertaining, filled with high level dancing and innovative new and classic choreography. Highlights: Individual Performances As I noted in my Fall NYCB wrap-up, the women at NYCB are outstanding and would be great dancers at any …
NYCB All Balanchine, Feb 28
NYCB presented an all Balanchine program Saturday night with Donizetti Variations (1960), La Valse (1951), and Chaconne (1976). Donizetti Variations is a bright, cheerful, and light piece with Ashley Bouder and Joaquin De Luz as the lead couple. Balanchine created …
NYCB American Composers,
Feb 26
NYBC’s Thursday mixed rep performance with a theme of American composers consisted of some of my favorite works: Hallelujah Junction (2001), Interplay (1952), and Glass Pieces (1983), along with Tarantella (1964). The music for Hallelujah Junction and Glass Pieces is …
Peck as Miss Turnstiles;
ABT Sleeping Beauty
Tiler Peck as Miss Turnstiles NYCB Principal Dancer Tiler Peck will replace Megan Fairchild as Miss Turnstiles in six performances in the Broadway production of On the Town: March 3 at 7pm, March 4 at 2pm and 8pm, March 14 …