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New York City Ballet Season Finale and Wrap Up With Response to Sir A
So, Sunday marked the end of New York聽 City Ballet’s winter season. I was honestly in a blue funk all day yesterday, which shows, I guess, that I am really beginning to love this company since I’ve normally only gotten so sad over ABT and Alvin Ailey. Sunday was a one-day only program,…
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Festa Barocca at Alvin Ailey
So Sir Alastair called Festa Barocca “rubbish”! I didn’t really know what to think of it, to be honest (which is why it’s taken me so long to write about). I found it oddly intriguing and very different from his (choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti’s) other work that I’ve seen, Oltremare. That piece made perfect sense…
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Shorty Awards Have Dance Category
thanks to us dance tweets 馃檪
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Joan Acocella on America’s Skepticism of Ballet
There’s a good article by Joan Acocella in this week’s New Yorker reviewing a couple of recent dances at Brooklyn Academy of Music. In it, she talks about American choreographers and their uneasiness with ballet, their distrust of the dance form as inherently European (and snobbish). Hence, their need constantly to compare and…
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Christmas is Coming…
…and it’s getting cold! Which I hate. Cold makes me think of death. Although, I was just skimming my newish Complete New Yorker (which I won by taking one of those New Yorker marketing surveys — people actually do win those!) and I ran across a review from 1988 by Arlene Croce of Edward…
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Radio City Christmas Spectacular
My friend and fellow blogger, Taylor Gordon, is dancing in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular this year. She invited me to their dress rehearsal yesterday evening, which was more like opening night — the huge theater was completely packed and the show was totally smooth; no glitches at all. Somewhat ridiculously, in my 15…
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Gottlieb’s "Reading Dance"
Wow, this looks interesting. (Via Claudia)
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Dance Times Square Showcase, Etc.
I meant to write about this yesterday but took the day off from writing when I got a pleasantly unexpected invitation from Lucky Broadway Girl to see a play! Imagine that: words, actual words spoken on a stage! Hehe, I used to go to plays all the time but kind of stopped when I…
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Guardian Angel, Chase Brock Experience, Three Movements, San Francisco Ballet, Cynthia Gregory, Doctor Atomic
Blah! I had a very strange dream last night in which this one basically told me in his own sweet way that I need to calm down and not stress over blogging like a mad fiend. I have no idea why Angel Corella was on my mind since, although my favorite ballet company…
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Of Pretzels and Pashminas
“When, in today芒鈧劉s ballet, you see a man express his feelings for his lady by hurling her into the air, catching her upside down, and wrapping her around his neck like a pashmina, you are seeing the legacy of the Bolshoi.” — this from Joan Acocella in her latest New Yorker article, analyzing Morphoses (whose…
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The Beast Has Launched
Tina Brown’s new online magazine, The Daily Beast, launched today (via Maud, who’s an “insider”). I wonder if she can employ one of those newly out-of-work dance critics? It doesn’t look huge on the arts, but then again it just launched.
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Alexei Ratmansky Talks With Joan Acocella Tomorrow at New Yorker Festival
For some reason, The New Yorker didn’t much publicize this year’s festival, but thankfully I sat next to Brian Siebert, who writes about dance for that magazine, last night at Morphoses (more on that soon!) and he alerted me that the festival is this weekend, and that as part of it, Joan Acocella (the…