I don’t normally associate solar power with Lincoln Center, but there is a giant exhibition running until December 1 featuring a 28-by-24-foot LED wall that changes slowly, focusing on an overhead view of a solar tower and solar mirrors. The …
NYCB Balanchine and Stravinsky,
Sept 27, Oct 3
New York City Ballet presented important Balanchine and Stravinsky works Saturday evening, September 27 and last Friday: Apollo (1928), Monumentum pro Gesualdo (1960), Movements for Piano and Orchestra (1963), Duo Concertant (1972), and Agon (1957). Stravinsky composed Apollo between 1927 …
ABT in Chicago
ABT is in Chicago at the Auditorium Theatre (can’t they find a more interesting name for the theater?) Friday-Sunday with theme All-American Celebration consisting of Bach Partita, Some Assembly Required, Sinatra Suite, and Fancy Free. The Chicago Tribune’s Laura Moltzahn …
Herrera, Kent, Reyes
Retirement Thoughts
ABT announced Tuesday that Principal Dancers Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent and Xiomara Reyes will retire at the end of the 2015 Met season. Paloma will give her farewell on June 9 as Princess Aurora in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty. Julie Kent …
Herrera, Kent, Reyes to Retire
ABT announced yesterday that Principal Dancers Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent and Xiomara Reyes will retire at the end of the 2015 Met season. Will miss them. More thoughts tonight.
Mikhailovsky Ballet
Casting Update
Here is a casting update for Mikhailovsky Ballet, performing at Koch Theater, Lincoln Center from November 11-23. I look forward to seeing Leonid Sarafanov; I’ve seen him on YouTube video, but never live. Also, Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova in …