A big thank you to New York Theatre Ballet and to Amanda McKerrow of the Antony Tudor Ballet Trust for generously allowing us to post these Tudor ballets. …
3 APRIL 2020
8 MARCH 2020
Lauren Lovette takes on Odette-Odile at NYCB
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.…
20 NOVEMBER 2019
Building Character in Alberto Alonso’s Carmen
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.…
20 OCTOBER 2019
Meeting Alicia: Toba Singer reminisces
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, …
15 OCTOBER 2019
Balanchine & Cunningham: New York City Ballet fires on all cylinders
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.…