Kitri Basilio Barcelona
Our review of American Ballet Theatre’s first two performances of ‘Don Quixote’ in Barcelona in the Huffington Post.…
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Sneak peek at Don Quixote rehearsal, as ABT packs up for Spain
As American Ballet Theatre prepares for their Barcelona tour, check out our photos of Isabella Boylston and newcomer James Whiteside, who will be debuting in the lead roles of Kitri and Basilio, along with five other powerhouse couples. While many full-length productions of Don Q are – let’s face …
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Ballet to the People’s bow to the Mariinsky Ballet’s Swan Lake at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley (our Huffington Post review).…
Read more →'Year of the Rabbit' takes New York by storm
George Balanchine was barely 30 years old, and a new immigrant to America, when he premiered the piece that would become the signature work of New York City Ballet (here danced beautifully by Pacific Northwest Ballet). Serenade broke new ground in many ways, especially in its highlighting of the …
Read more →Stepping on the gas!
A reader challenged me yesterday to work harder to raise money for the new film about Jacques D’Amboise’s National Dance Institute, I Can Dance! As incentive (I suspect he thinks I spend my days lying around on a couch) he is offering to match-fund up to $1,000 donated by Ballet …
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