I posted curtain call photos of the Thursday ABT performance of Frederick Ashton’s marvelous La Fille mal gardée on my photography website notmydayjobphotography.com. A beautiful performance by Stella Abrera and James Whiteside, with Marcelo Gomes the Widow Simone. Check for my …
Ellison Ballet Spring Showcase
I posted photos of the Ellison Ballet Spring Showcase on my photography website notmydayjobphotography.com. Ellison Ballet is a training school in New York run by Edward Ellison, a former Soloist at San Francisco Ballet. I previously reviewed the 2015 Showcase and …
Gelsey Kirkland Ballet
Mischief Review
The Gelsey Kirkland Ballet spring performance mixed rep bill was interesting and exciting. With a theme of Mischief, Mischief & More Mischief, GKB again avoided well-worn gala excerpt classics in favor of unique, less frequently performed works. The works were …
NYC Ballet Schools Active This Week
Busy week for New York studio and student companies, with performances from Gelsey Kirkland Ballet, Ellison Ballet, and Ballet Academy East. I’ve attended performances from all three companies/schools and think they are great, with many talented young dancers. Ballet fans that …
ABT Sylvia 5/12, 5/14
Multiple Cast Treat
American Ballet Theatre (ABT) opened its Spring Met season with Sylvia, a delightful Frederick Ashton 1952 work created as a star vehicle for Margot Fonteyn. Léo Delibes’ score is beautiful, a masterpiece of 19th-century ballet music. Tchaikovsky was so impressed with …
Three Casts in ABT Sylvia
Interesting casting for the ABT Sylvia Thursday night. Gillian Murphy was injured, replaced by not one dancer but three separate casts: Isabella Boylston and Marcelo Gomes as Sylvia and Aminta, respectively in Act I; Maria Kochetkova in Act II; and …