I posted a few curtain call photos from Mariinsky Ballet’s Swan Lake Thursday at BAM with Viktoria Tereshkina and Vladimir Shklyarov. Click the above photo to go to my photography website notmydayjobphotography.com. Enjoyed the performance and check out my review …
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Mariinsky BAM Tickets
Going Fast
With the start of the New Year a few days ago, it’s hard to believe that the Mariinsky Ballet will be at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in less than two weeks. Tickets are going fast, so if you want …
Balletfocus 2014 Highlights
Balletfocus 2014 highlights: Polina Semionova, ABT Don Quixote, June 17 Polina Semionova was stunning as Kitri in ABT’s Don Quixote on May 17. If there is a better Kitri in the world today, I would like to see it. …
On the Town:
Helluva Show in a Helluva Town
I’ve seen dozens of ballets in 2014 but zero Broadway shows. After tiring of Nutcracker, I jumped at the chance to see On the Town at the Lyric Theatre given its ties to the ballet world-Jerome Robbins was the original …
Mixed Rep-Dec. 17
Guillaume Côté Injured Bad news from Canada. National Ballet of Canada Principal Dancer and sometime ABT guest artist Guillaume Côté suffered a severe knee injury Saturday, tearing his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) during a Nutcracker performance in Toronto, according to TheStar.com. According …
Gelsey Kirkland Ballet Nutcracker
Gelsey Kirkland Ballet’s Nutcracker production is on a smaller scale relative to more grand, elaborate, and expensive NYCB and ABT works. Although smaller in stature in the intimate Schimmel Center at Pace University in downtown Manhattan, the work packs quality …