An ornery witch pounded her burled staff, men in kilts brawled, sylphs wafted through the air and a long scarf lay strewn across the floor of the midcentury library that had been converted into a bright and airy rehearsal space. I had been invited to a rehearsal of American Repertory …
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Leigh Donlan reviewed the Sunday evening performance on 20th October, 2024, at Lincoln Center
The exceptionally dry program title, Choreographers of the 20th and 21st Century, gave away little but turned out to herald a densely packed second program of American Ballet Theatre’s fall season: two iconic works from …
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Leigh Donlan reviewed American Ballet Theatre’s evening performance on 20th July, 2024, at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House
ABT closed their summer season with the return of Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate, a full-length story ballet based on the well-known modern Mexican novel, and a co-production with The …
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Leigh Donlan reviewed the 29th June, 2024, evening performance at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York
The shiny new thing at American Ballet Theatre’s unusually compact summer season at the Met, Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, just concluded its New York premiere run – and it’s spectacular. While there …
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Ballet to the People had the pleasure of hanging out in the rehearsal studio, watching two principal ballerinas prepare for a very busy spring season at the Met. Both were marking their 20th anniversary with American Ballet Theatre. They also happen to be besties, though their journey to the pinnacle …
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