Photo: ralphbijker at Flickr, © Creative Commons The New York Times reports that the final performance of New York City Ballet’s three-week run last summer in Paris will be broadcast on PBS February 17 and 24. As I discussed at length last …
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David Hallberg Returns;
Ballet Tattoos;
Amar Ramasar Profile
David Hallberg Returns David Hallberg will return to the stage after a more than two-year absence due to a foot injury according to The New York Times. David will dance the lead role of Franz in Australian Ballet’s Coppélia December 13, 16, …
John Clifford New York City Ballet Videos on YouTube
John Clifford recently posted a number of great New York City Ballet (NYCB) videos on his YouTube channel. Clifford is a choreographer and Artistic Director at Los Angeles Dance Theater and was a Principal Dancer at NYCB from 1966-1974, founder of …
NYCB Review:
Classic NYCB, American Music
NYCB presented two delightful programs Thursday and Friday consisting of great classics danced at a high level. The dancing of the company this fall season has been outstanding with all of the favorite principals back from other projects, with the …
NYCB Jewels and Divertimento No. 15 Review, Sept 24, 30
NYCB presented Balanchine’s 1967 classic Jewels Friday. The idea for the ballet originated in Europe in the 1950s when Claude Arpels of the jewelry firm Van Cleef & Arpels suggested it to Balanchine, according to John Gruen’s The World’s Great Ballets. …
NYCB Balanchine and Stravinsky, 9-21
After the NYCB gala the previous evening celebrating fashion in ballet, the company did an abrupt turn Wednesday with minimalist “Black and White” Balanchine works set to Stravinsky. Dancers were clad in plain black or white leotards, with the biggest …