The Bolshoi Ballet
"Coppélia in HD"
Bolshoi Ballet
Empire 25 Theater
New York, NY
June 10, 2018
There was no more joyous place to be in New York on a gray damp Sunday than inside a standard issue (vertical) multiplex in wildly overcrowded Midtown. The reason? Sergei Vikharev's staging, for the Bolshoi in 2009, of "Coppélia" based on that of Marius Petipa and Enrico Cecchetti for the Imperial Russian Ballet in 1894. The production is – even on film – proof of the magic
"La Source", "In Creases", "Circus Polka", "Western Symphony"
School of American Ballet
Peter Jay Sharp Theater
New York, NY
June 1, 2018 matinee
The afternoon began with a disconcerting jolt. The curtain rose on "La Source" revealing not the lead couple, but two members of the corps standing sentinel at the back corners of the stage. In deference to its student performers, "La Source" had been reconceived and recombined. Instead of two pas de deux interlarded with soloist and ensemble
American Ballet Theatre
“Giselle”
American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House
New York, New York
May 14, 2018
by Carol Pardo
copyright © 2018 by Carol Pardo
The ballet "Giselle" is intended to be about its title character, a village girl who dies of a broken heart when she discovers that her beloved is a nobleman in commoner's clothing and betrothed to boot. Yet so great are her feelings for him that, from beyond the grave, she saves him from the Wilis,
New York City Ballet
“Divertimento No. 15,” “The Four Temperaments,” “Chaconne”
New York City Ballet
The David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
January 30, 2018
The winter 2018 season of the New York City ballet opened with two all-Balanchine programs back to back. During that first week the air in the Koch Theater was suffused with a combination of relief and jubilation. The company was back, having lived through the retirement of Peter Martins, its longest serving artistic director, and Balanchine
"5", Ganz leise kommt die Nacht / The Night Falls Quietly", "On the Nature of Daylight", "Vertigo Maze"
Dresden Semperoper Ballett
The Joyce Theater
New York, NY
November 1, 2017
The Dresden Semperoper Ballet, founded in 1823, boasts a roster of sixty dancers, and a repertory which, during the 2017-2018 season, encompasses everything from Petipa's "Sleeping Beauty" to Justin Peck's "Heatscape". Its inaugural season at The Joyce included eleven dancers from all ranks of the company (among them
American Ballet Theatre
"Her Notes", "Symphonic Variations", "Other Dances", "Serenade After Plato's Symposium"
American Ballet Theatre
David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
October 19, 2017
American Ballet Theatre has long had a dual identity in New York. In the spring at the Metropolitan Opera, the company presents itself as the guardian of 19th century imperial Russian tradition. Spectacle, scale, hierarchy rule. The fall season, at the home theater of the New York City Ballet, is more egalitarian. Mixed bills provide