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San Francisco Ballet at City Center
San Francisco Ballet in Helgi Tomasson’s The Fifth Season, photo by Erik Tomasson San Francisco Ballet‘s engagement at City Center came to a close this weekend after presenting three diverse programs. The two that I saw illustrated artistic director Helgi … Continue reading
Posted in Balanchine, ballet, christopher wheeldon, criticism, Dance, Dance writing, Morphoses, music, New York City, Photography, Reviews
Tagged Balanchine, ballet, christopher wheeldon, city center, Concerto Grosso, Damian Smith, Dance, Divertimento No 15, Erik Tomasson, Ezio Bosso, Frances Chung, Fusion, George Balanchine, Helgi Tomasson, John Adams, Joyride, Karl Jenkins, Mark Morris, Morphoses, Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, New York City, Paul Hindemith, Pierre-Francois Vilanoba, San Francisco, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Ballet 2008 City Center, Sarah Van Patten, Son of Chamber Symphony, Taras Domitro, The Fifth Hour, The Four Temperaments, Within the Golden Hour, Yuan Yuan Tan, Yuri Possokhov
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New York City Ballet – World Tour
Albert Evans, Rebecca Krohn, Jonathan Stafford, and Rachel Rutherford in Russian Seasons (photo by John Ross) Every season, the artistic staff at New York City Ballet has the daunting task of creating a variety of programs that will attract audiences, … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, music, Photography, Reviews
Tagged Adam Hendrickson, Albert Evans, Alexei Ratmansky, Amar Ramasar, An American in Paris, Balanchine, ballet, Bugaku, christopher wheeldon, damian woetzel, Dance, darci kistler, Galina Solovyena, George Gershwin, Jared Angle, John Adams, Jonathan Stafford, Leonid Desyatnikov, Mark Stanley, Max van der Sterre, New York City Ballet, Nixon in China, nycb, Peter Martins, Rachel Rutherford, Rebecca Krohn, Russian folklore, Russian Seasons, sara mearns, sean suozzi, Sibelius, Teresa Reichlen, The Chairman Dances, Tiler Peck, Valse Triste, wendy whelan, World Tour
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Listening to Music, Seeing the Movement
Over the past week, I’ve heard two pieces of music for dance on WYNC, New York public radio: John Adams’ The Chairman Dances, which Peter Martins used for a 1988 ballet of the same name; and Georges Bizet’s Symphony No. … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Education, music
Tagged ashley bouder, ballet, Dance, George Balanchine, Georges Bizet, John Adams, music, New York City Ballet, NPR, nycb, Peter Martins, Symphony in C, The Chairman Dances, WNYC
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