It’s tough to be the opening act for two intriguing world premieres and Balanchine’s bulletproof Symphony in C. Jerome Robbins’ Opus 19/The Dreamer is not quite up to the task. The Prokofiev score may be an intoxicating ride for the solo violin, but Robbins’ choreography is a much tamer …
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It was a rare treat to watch a handful of Royal Ballet stars in the intimate surroundings of New York’s Joyce Theater; even better to catch them in play dates with their friends from New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and New York Theatre Ballet.…
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The stunning set for Yang Liping Contemporary Dance’s Under Siege, on display as audiences trooped in to Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater last weekend, would have staggered even the most jaded theater-goer. It was constructed of oversized silvery shears, thousands of them dangling ominously from an undulating lighting …
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“Is everybody in the world going to die before someone finds the answer?” asked reluctant vampire-slayer Dr. Robert Morgan, played by Vincent Price in the classic horror film The Last Man on Earth. Morgan battles a mysterious pandemic that turns humans into vampires – a premise that evoked mid-20…
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1946 must have been a dreadful year for weather if John Cage’s The Seasons, which premiered the following spring, was any reflection. Merce Cunningham wrought a ballet from it. And Richard Alston, who studied with Cunningham in the 70’s, reinvented it for New York Theatre Ballet in the spring …
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