Above photo: Lauren Lovette and Gonzalo Garcia, Sleeping Beauty, February 16, 2017 Look forward to New York City Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty next week. The company usually performs a full-length production over Valentine’s Day and, thankfully, it is avoiding the dreadful …
NYCB Premier: Peck’s Principia
Justin Peck’s Principia, which debuted Friday before a packed house at Koch Theater as part of New York City Ballet’s New Combinations program, is an uplifting work filled with a sense of community and belonging, in contrast to his defiant …
NYCB Season Opens With Balanchine Classics
New York City Ballet opened its winter season with all Balanchine classics, with Friday consisting of works to Tschaikovsky and Saturday evening to Stravinsky. Friday presented Serenade with Megan LeCrone/Sara Mearns/Tiler Peck/Jared Angle/Aaron Sanz as leads. The last time I saw …
Balletfocus 2018 Highlights
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 …
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 …
Sleeping Beauty Dreams: An Odd and Entertaining Dream
Nice to see Diana Vishneva and Marcelo Gomes back in action in Sleeping Beauty Dreams at the Beacon Theater. They last performed together in New York in Diana’s final American Ballet Theatre performance in June 2017 in an emotional farewell. …