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NYCB 9/24 – The secret is out
Alexa Maxwell’s bold, red-hot debut in Rubies last night was a triumph on multiple levels. It served to shame NYCB artistic management for denying Alexa an opportunity to lead a single Nutcracker performance for…
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NYCB 9/23 – Jewels continued
Whenever Haglund sees a performance of Jewels, he can’t stop wondering what in Balanchine’s life led to his skill of being able to think of movement in such kaleidoscopic terms. Maybe it was, indeed,…
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NYCB 9/22 – What Liz said
“I’ve never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I’m here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.” At the season’s opening performance, New York City…
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observations 9/1
Well, here we are again less than 24 hours later to coo over the casting released by NYCB for the first week of the fall season. It looks superb. Haglund will swoop in for every performance…
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observations 8/31
Haglund was skipping down the sidewalk on his way to pickleball while listening to and conducting the Brahms Haydn Variations, one of his favorite pieces to conduct while traversing the city. Vigorously conducting music…
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NY City Center Hugo Marchand – Artists at the Center 7/23
Sometimes it pays to sit in the cheap seats. Although not literally cheap, but certainly less costly than sitting in the front of the prime orchestra section with the ballet glitterati, the tier seating…