New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake is a fixer-upper with great bones: mesmerizing lakeside scenes populated by caffeinated swan-maidens, vividly ironic national dances, and an epic denouement. The fixes are low-hanging fruit – why the company hasn’t gotten around to them is a mystery.…
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Toba Singer reported from Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida, which presented Alberto Alonso’s Carmen Suite, staged by his widow, former Cuban National Ballet dancer, Sonia Calero, on Nov. 8 and 9, 2019.…
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Legendary ballerina Alicia Alonso, who helmed the Cuban National Ballet for 71 years, has died at age 98. Alonso was a star of American Ballet Theater and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. She was also the first Western dancer to appear as a guest artist in the Soviet Union, …
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Things got off to a slow start at New York City Ballet this season but lately they’ve been firing on all cylinders. A triple bill in which the most recent work dates back to 1958 looked thrillingly of the moment on Thursday night.…
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An evening of largely uplifting and celebratory dance at New York City Center’s Fall for Dance opened with a bleak portrayal of intimacy by Crystal Pite. …
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