A match made in ballet heaven: Polina Semionova and David Hallberg. Her brilliant Odile is the embodiment of evil. (Photo: Rosalie O’Connor, courtesy American Ballet Theatre)
Backstage @ABTBallet Swan Lake tonight watching the god-like David Hallberg & Polina Semionova
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) June 30, 2012
Hallberg and Semionova’s refined and flawless technique finds no better showcase than ABT’s ‘Swan Lake’, backed up by a mesmerizing swan corps. (Photo: Rosalie O’Connor, courtesy American Ballet Theatre)
Olympic-hopeful divers watch out: @ABTBallet David Hallberg's heart-stopping Act IV dive off the cliff into the lake deserves Olympic gold
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) June 30, 2012
The All-American danseur noble, Ethan Steifel, has been a prince, a god, a warrior, a sailor, Romeo, and Billy the Kid – and who can forget teen heart-throb Cooper Neilson in ‘Center Stage’? – but he bade New York audiences farewell last week as a pirate slave. America’s loss is New Zealand’s gain. (Photo: Rosalie O’Connor, courtesy Amerian Ballet Theatre.)
Crowd went wild for the departing Ethan Stiefel as the pirate slave Ali in Le Corsaire @ABTBallet. A night of big, bold & brilliant dancing.
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) July 3, 2012
Pas d'esclave did not disappoint: Stiefel threw jumps into his grands pirouettes while Gillian Murphy tossed off single-single-quadruples
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) July 3, 2012
The supremely athletic Gillian Murphy, gallant and fearless Marcelo Gomes, and spirited yet refined Ethan Stiefel were just one of several dream teams fielded by ABT in the epic ‘Le Corsaire’ this season. (Photo: Rosalie O’Connor, courtesy American Ballet Theatre.)
Le Corsaire boasts a silly plot, tired sets & cheesy costumes (pirates in tennis skirts, slave girls in Swarovski-bedecked tutus)...
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) July 3, 2012
... yet no one does swashbuckling like Marcelo Gomes, Craig Salstein & Sascha Radetsky #LeCorsaire @ABTBallet
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) July 3, 2012
Stella Abrera flaunted the most gorgeous port de bras & épaulement as Gulnare (looking more like a queen than a slave girl but who cares)
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) July 3, 2012
The hilariously floppy wedding-cake tutus in Act III were hard on the eyes, but these dancers could have pulled it off in jeans & Converse
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) July 3, 2012
Corsairs were pirates authorized by the King of France to seize & plunder foreign ships, with 1/3 of the bounty handed over to the King.
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) July 3, 2012
#Corsair was also the name given to the luxury yachts custom-built for #JPMorgan - an irony refreshed by the recent trading scandal
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) July 3, 2012
The real July 4th fireworks exploded onstage at the Met this afternoon: Herman Cornejo & Ivan Vasiliev in @ABTBallet #LeCorsaire
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) July 5, 2012
Ivan Vasiliev electrified Met audiences as pirate slave Ali in ‘Le Corsaire’. This young man takes risks, performing jumps that as yet have no name – with a lyrical grace unexpected from someone of his short, stocky, powerful build. (Photo: Rosalie O’Connor, courtesy American Ballet Theatre)
Cory Stearns w/his noble lines & Veronika Part w/her beautiful feet did more for US-Russia relations today than the new START Treaty
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) July 5, 2012
The dashing and elegant Cory Stearns exemplifies the Byronic hero Conrad, leader of the pirates in ‘Le Corsaire’: “That man of loneliness and mystery… he knew himself a villain – but… scorn’d the best as hypocrites…Lone, wild, and strange/ He stood alike exempt/From all affection and from all contempt” (Photo: Rosalie O’Connor, courtesy American Ballet Theatre)
It's Africa hot on NY streets, other kind of hot in ImperialTheatre where Kelli O'Hara & Matthew Broderick are making #NiceWorkIfYouCanGetIt
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) June 30, 2012
#NiceWorkIfYouCanGetIt Joe DiPietro's smart book, Kathleen Marshall's classic choreography & glorious Gershwin raise silliness to high art
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) June 30, 2012
Brilliant orchestrations of some of the greatest American music #NiceWorkIfYouCanGetIt http://t.co/wzPgfXxV via @youtube
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) July 6, 2012
Kelli O'Hara's honeyed voice & superb comic timing with Matthew Broderick win standing ovation #NiceWorkIfYouCanGetIt http://t.co/aXcCxiwQ
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) June 30, 2012
:)) Bootlegger Kelli O'Hara, on lookout for cops, sings "Someone To Watch Over Me" with cocked rifle http://t.co/uMPfzyeV via @youtube
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) July 6, 2012
#NiceWorkIfYouCanGetIt blithely skewers politicians & other hypocrites but aims sharpest barb at Isadora Duncan-style modern dancers
— Ballet to the People (@Carla_Escoda) July 1, 2012
