Leigh Donlan reviewed the Sun Feb 9th, 2025, performance at the Koch Theater in New York City
Alexei Ratmansky premiered an invigorated Paquita for New York City Ballet – a fresh but fragmented take on the pedigreed classic. This program opened with Balanchine’s 1951 restaging of the first act Pas …
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Preface to Saints, Sinners & Shortstops, a memoir by Jim Becker – foreign correspondent, AP bureau chief, sportswriter, opera, ballet and theatre critic – who went to the Great Newsroom in the Sky yesterday at the age of 98.
“It must be great to be 17,” said the City …
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Leigh Donlan reviewed the Jan 30, 2025, performance at New York’s Joyce Theater
Calais-based Compagnie Hervé KOUBI returned to the Joyce Theater last week with Ce Que Le Jour Doit à La Nuit (What the Day Owes to the Night.) After its 2013 premiere in Aix-en-Provence, it came …
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Leigh Donlan reviewed the Jan 15, 2025 performance at New York’s Joyce Theater
More spiritual highs at New York’s Joyce Theater after Ragamala Dance’s transcendent account of ancient Sanskrit tales, this time from Brooklyn-based Ronald K. Brown/ EVIDENCE, who returned for their home season while commemorating their 40th …
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Leigh Donlan reviewed the Jan 9th, 2025, performance at the Joyce Theater in New York
Twin Cities-based Ragamala Dance Company brought Children of Dharma to the Joyce Theater this week for its New York premiere. Created by Ranee Ramaswamy and her daughters Aparna and Ashwini, the dance beautifully illustrated select …
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