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🇵🇭 🛫 🌊 🌁 🗽🐈⬛ 🐕🦺 Carla Escoda
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My review of Alexei Ratmansky's latest world premiere for
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along with Wheeldon's This Bitter Earth and two ballets by Justin Peck
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(Photo: Erin Baiano)
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Ratmansky banishes a king
Carla Escoda caught the world premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s The Naked King at Lincoln Center’s Koch Theater on 5th Feb 2026 Andrew Veyette as the King, with, from left, Preston Chamble…
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6 days ago
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Irresistible: Justin Peck's latest, THE WIND-UP, to Beethoven's Eroica symphony. My review for
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12 days ago
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18 days ago
The world over: Bachtrack’s Classical Music Statistics 2025
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Daniil Simkin has brought friends Siphe November, Jeff Cirio, Osiel Gouneo and Alban Lendorf, all SONS OF ECHO, to New York. My thoughts for
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about 1 month ago
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A new Petrushka and brilliant collaboration from
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BalletX and ensemble132 boldly reimagine <i>Petrushka</i>
Leigh Donlan was at the 8th Jan 2026 performance at the Perelman Theater in Philadelphia
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MOMIX injected some much-needed joy into an otherwise dispiriting season. My review of their ALICE at the Joyce for
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(photo: Renato Mangolin)
about 2 months ago
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A government hard at work protecting its people from small boats and undignified fonts
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At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
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2 months ago
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3 months ago
London City Ballet at the Linbury: joy and sorrow at its best ✍️ Deborah Weiss
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Rennie Harris Puremovement from Philly, Creation Global from Chicago and House of Jit from Detroit joined forces in Rennie Harris' electrifying AMERICAN STREET DANCER. My review
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from the Joyce Theater in New York
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3 months ago
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Gala night at Paul Taylor: 2 world premieres from Lauren Lovette & Robert Battle & one piece from the rep made for a rollercoaster evening. My review
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Photos: Elizabeth Chapa & John Harnage in Lovette's stim (Hisae Aihara), Patrick Gamble & co in Battle's Under the Rhythm (Ron Thiele)
3 months ago
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More Paul Taylor at Lincoln Center in New York! My review
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(Photo: SPEAKING IN TONGUES, Steven Pisano)
3 months ago
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Paul Taylor Dance is packing the houses at Lincoln Center's Koch Theater. My review of Saturday night's program
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featuring COMPANY B and ESPLANADE (Photo: Gabrielle Barnes and Alex Clayton in ESPLANADE, by Ron Thiele)
3 months ago
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Andrea Miller and the dancers of GALLIM brought a joyous, wacky and inspired new work to New York's Joyce Theatre last week. My review
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(Photo: Steven Pisano)
3 months ago
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Compagnie DYPTIK is back in New York. Loved the last piece they brought to Fall for Dance. My review of their latest work, inspired by a medieval dancing plague, for
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4 months ago
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Every touring company's nightmare. But Ballet Preljocaj wasn't going to let a stupid thing like visas stand in their way. My review of opening night at New York's Joyce Theater for
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(Photo: Jean-Claude Carbonne)
4 months ago
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Tiler Peck & Friends old & new turned it out at New York City Center last weekend. My review for
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Photo: Peck and Roman Mejia in Alonzo King's Swift Arrow, by Steven Pisano
4 months ago
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The Limón Dance Co has brought a modern retelling of The Emperor Jones, a lovely and crowded Chaconne, and a visually stunning new work by Diego Vega Solorza to New York's Joyce Theater this week. On through Sunday. Check out my review
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4 months ago
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Paris Opera Ballet + Hofesh Shechter = high expectations. My review of RED CARPET
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4 months ago
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Contrasting splendors at New York City Ballet: Robbins and Balanchine
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✍️ Carla Escoda
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Those generals after being summoned to Quantico for a yelping by Schnoodle-in-Chief Hegseth
#DepartmentOfWar
#NoMoreFatGenerals
No more
#HotYogaAndStretching
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"Rataplan, rataplan, rataplan" from Donizetti's THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT
YouTube video by Lyric Opera of Chicago
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5 months ago
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5 months ago
SunMi Park and Michael de la Nuez rehearsing GRAND PAS CLASSIQUE. See them in ABT@85: CLASSICS TO THE CONTEMPORARY program at the David H. Koch Theater. Tickets at
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🎹: Jacek Mysinski
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It was a hot mess
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last Thursday
#Eclectic
with a few dynamite moments like this one in Justin Peck's HEATSCAPE with Mira Nadon and Chun Wai Chan (photo: Erin Baiano.) My review for
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5 months ago
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An inspired triple bill at Fall for Dance became a last-minute quadruple bill
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affording New York dance insiders a 2nd glimpse of Parisian étoiles Hugo Marchand and Hannah O'Neill. My review
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(photo: Steven Pisano)
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5 months ago
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LaFreniere and Chan in Balanchine's EPISODES in my review for
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of this fall's All-Balanchine II program
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(Photo: Paul Kolnik)
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5 months ago
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How many of these dancers do you recognize?
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says Watch out for these young 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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(photo: Mia Williams of
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by Erin Baiano)
6 months ago
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Hong Kong Ballet tells a time-honored tale with modern convictions. My review of The Butterfly Lovers for
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(Photos from opening night at Lincoln Center in New York by Rosalie O'Connor)
6 months ago
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Two great choreographers reunited: Alice Reyes and Norman Walker. Her company occupies a unique niche in the dance world, its lineage traced back to seminal figures of American modern dance and to indigenous and colonial traditions in the Philippines
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Alice Reyes Dance PH beat the odds—‘Both humbling and inspiring’ - The Diarist.ph
When the Alice Reyes Dance Philippines (ARDP) staged Pasasalamat last August 1—the pre-opening show of the Proscenium Theater ...
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6 months ago
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New drop. Crazy & The Brains. All Saints.
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Crazy & The Brains - All Saints (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Crazy & The Brains
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6 months ago
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Lady White Snake blew in to New York from Shanghai for an all-too-brief run. My review for
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Shanghai Grand Theatre: Lady White Snake storms the Koch
A contemporary retelling in dance of the ancient Chinese folktale of the White Snake makes its first international stop at New York's Lincoln Center and it's a marvel.
https://bachtrack.com/review-lady-white-snake-shanghai-grand-theatre-peixian-wang-lincoln-center-new-york-july-2025
7 months ago
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Mark Morris downtown. My review for
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The dance is not going away party: Mark Morris’ new Northwest
Mark Morris Dance Group’s second week at the Joyce Theater in New York unveiled a world premiere in a mixed bill that represented a narrow range of Morris’ dazzling creativity.
https://bachtrack.com/review-mark-morris-northwest-ten-suggestions-the-argument-going-away-party-joyce-theater-new-york-july-2025
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Christopher Wheeldon's "The Winter's Tale" at ABT... my review:
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#summerinnewyork
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Shakespeare ‘Problem’ Play gets the Wheeldon Treatment at ABT
Leigh Donlan reviewed the Wed July 2nd, 2025 matinee performance at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City
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8 months ago
American Ballet Theatre continues its summer season at the Met. Last week, I saw Wayne McGregor's phenomenal 'Woolf Works':
#VirginiaWoolf
#AmericanBalletTheatre
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Returning to Woolf Works: ABT at the Met
Leigh Donlan reviewed the Wed Jun 17, 2025 matinee performance at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City
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Cloven Kingdom. Tablet. Polaris. The peerless Paul Taylor Dance Company. Thoughts on
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Pretty and beastly: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Joyce Theater
An intriguing reconstruction of an early work by Paul Taylor created on Pina Bausch and Dan Wagoner and a classic of barbed satire made a powerful triple bill by PTDC.
https://bachtrack.com/review-paul-taylor-dance-company-cloven-kingdom-tablet-polaris-joyce-theatre-new-york-june-2025
8 months ago
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has sat through more Swan Lakes than she can remember. This week she caught the cast that she claims is the best she's ever seen 🤩 as
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kicks off its summer season at the Met
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Summer in New York: ABT’s Misseldine and Bell in Stellar Swan Lake
Leigh Donlan reviewed the Wednesday, June 11, matinee performance at the Metropolitan Opera House American Ballet
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8 months ago
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Are Hamburg Ballet dancers “spoiled brats” or professionals keen to preserve a legacy?
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After Dancer Complaints, Hamburg Ballet’s Artistic Director Leaves
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8 months ago
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Mearns, Mejia, LaFreniere, Laracey, Coll, Mabie, Peck, Angle, Corti, Flacke – could this be today's Dream Team
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? Find out in my review of Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream for
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Midsummer comes early, uneven yet thrilling
Balanchine's much-loved yet maddeningly disjointed A Midsummer Night's Dream returns to New York City Ballet. Some glorious performances on opening night, some uneven. But the night belonged to the bu...
https://bachtrack.com/review-nycb-a-midsummer-nights-dream-balanchine-lincoln-center-new-york-may-2025
9 months ago
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9 months ago
🎺 Start the fanfare! We have just published our 25,000th review! 🥳🎉🍾
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Celebrating 25,000 reviews on Bachtrack
Bachtrack’'s 25,000th review marks 15 years of global classical music and dance coverage. Discover in-depth, professionally edited reviews in multiple languages from 37 countries – and tip your hat to...
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Many glorious moments in the latest mixed bill from Limón Dance Company at the 92nd St Y. My review for
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The timeless and the new at Limón Dance
Doris Humphrey and José Limón inspired a world premiere from Aszure Barton for the Limón Dance Company at New York City's storied 92nd Street Y.
https://bachtrack.com/review-limon-dance-company-two-ecstatic-themes-la-malinche-the-moors-pavane-join-92nd-st-y-new-york-may-2025
9 months ago
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The incomparable Alla Osipenko, who died earlier this month, here in a ballet by Fyodor Lopukhov with her husband
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THE ICE MAIDEN (Osipenko-Markovsky, 1974)
YouTube video by xxxFreyjaxxx
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9 months ago
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A Kyle Abraham premiere, oldies-but-goodies from Balanchine and Lynne Taylor-Corbett, and 2017 Alexei Ratmansky
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in my review for
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Falling for Kyle Abraham, again, at New York City Ballet
When We Fell, Kyle Abraham’s bracing new piece for NYCB, made a minimalist statement on a maximalist quadruple bill, also notable for stunning ensemble work in Alexei Ratmansky's Odesa.
https://bachtrack.com/review-eclectic-nycb-when-we-fell-chiaroscuro-odesa-baiser-lincoln-center-may-2025
9 months ago
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Making classical music hip again: Rafael Adobas Bayog, an Ibizan flutist of Filipino descent. My profile @bachtrack.com
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Constantly in motion: Rafael Adobas Bayog
The young, award-winning flute player talks about collaborating with dancers, creating collages and new arrangements, and taking inspiration from traditional music of the Philippines.
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9 months ago
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Also good advice for how to write a review 😆
add a skeleton here at some point
9 months ago
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Boris Charmatz and Emmanuelle Huynh in étrangler le temps set to long-haul Boléro in the iconic rotunda at the Guggenheim. My review:
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Strangling time, at the Guggenheim
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9 months ago
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A cluster of mesmerizing partnerships on display now
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#Robbins
#Wheeldon
#Ratmansky
My review
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New York City Ballet dancers revel in a double scoop of Robbins
Two masterworks by Jerome Robbins, Brandenburg and A Suite of Dances, are joined by Wheeldon's steamy After the Rain and Ratmansky's Paquita challenge.
https://bachtrack.com/review-nycb-innovators-and-icons-ii-paquita-suite-of-dances-after-the-rain-brandenburg-lincoln-center-new-york-may-2025
10 months ago
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The exhilarating OPAL LOOP and SON OF GONE FISHIN' in a triple bill with a new work by Lee Serle from Trisha Brown Dance at the Joyce Theater in New York. My review
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Two classics and a world premiere from Trisha Brown Dance Company
Magnificent dancing in Trisha Brown classics from the 1980s and in a new work by her mentee, Lee Serle, transcend less than compelling stagecraft at New York’s Joyce Theater.
https://bachtrack.com/review-opal-loop-son-of-gone-fishin-time-again-trisha-brown-dance-joyce-theater-new-york-april-2025
10 months ago
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New York Theatre Ballet in a towering mixed bill at the storied Judson Memorial Church. My review for
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Four postmoderns and a newcomer: New York Theatre Ballet at Judson
At a time when small dance companies in the United States appear to be perched on a live volcano, the tiny, distinguished New York Theatre Ballet recalls the revolutionary postmoderns.
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10 months ago
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More photos from New York City Ballet's opening night last week: Mira Nadon and Chun Wai Chan in APOLLO and Sara Mearns in CHACONNE. My review
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Photos: Erin Baiano | Apollo and Paul Kolnik | Chaconne.
10 months ago
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Talent spotting
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for
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#FutureDance
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92NY Future Dance Festival: young choreographers to watch
A dozen dances by young choreographers – live and on film – caught my eye at this year's Future Dance Festival at 92NY's Harkness Dance Center in New York City.
https://bachtrack.com/review-92y-future-dance-festival-the-92nd-street-y-new-york-april-2025
10 months ago
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My review of all the excitement
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season opener this week for
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#Balanchine
#EarthDay
#climatechange
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New York City Ballet, interrupted
Opening New York City Ballet's spring season, a quadruple bill of major and minor Balanchine eventually proceeded after protestors infiltrated the Koch Theater and created a diversion.
https://bachtrack.com/review-nycb-all-balanchine-i-chaconne-ballo-della-regina-tchaik-pas-de-deux-apollo-david-koch-theater-april-2025
10 months ago
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An all-too-brief run at New York's City Center proved a tremendous showcase for Dance Theatre of Harlem's superb dancers. My review for
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Dance Theatre of Harlem: from soulful to vertiginous
At The Joyce Theater, where founder Arthur Mitchell became a star, Dance Theatre of Harlem delivered a diverse program of works by Balanchine, Forsythe, Garland and Jodie Gates.
https://bachtrack.com/22/296/view/28588
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