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NYCB Adds 4-week Fall Season!
NYCB announced some annual schedule reshuffling today. In exchange for giving up two weeks of performances during the first week of January (not his year) and two weeks of performances during June, NYCB will…
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Balletonomics
It’s time to put the foot down on pointe shoes.Modern manufacturing technology allows the mass production of throwaway monthly contact lenses with a retail price of $20 per pair. Millions of people insert these…
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New Year’s Eve with the Mariinsky – La Bayadere Shades, Paquita excerpt
Here's the link. [This video might have an expiration date for access.] Wow. Everyone looks fantastic! Tereshkina and Sarafanov in the La Bayadere PdD are incredible. How nice to see Yana Selina featured! She…
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OMG! Haglund’s Heel Wins International Award!
Haglund's Heel has won The Ballet Bag's 2009 Award for "the coolest ballet campaign of the year" in recognition of our undying, grass-roots-turned-international-soon-to-go-viral campaign to bring Sir Kenneth MacMillan's masterpiece Mayerling to ABT in…
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A little more Nutcracker.
Over on Ranting Details, Matthew Murphy has a few photos from the Nutcracker in his hometown of Missoula. The Garden City Ballet's production this year featured ABT's lovely Stella Abrera and Sascha Radetsky as…
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MLB Trade Fantasy
Yes, yes, yes, it's the Major League Ballet trading season again. Armchair team managers everywhere are speculating about free agencies, draft picks, and about who in their right mind would let the World Series…