There’s an interactive feature with my friend, dancer Taylor Gordon, in the New York Times today. She talks about her career as a freelance ballet dancer – from performing in Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular to taking extra work in ABT Met season productions, to venturing into jazz and contemporary roles. Yay Taylor!
And here is the full article by Claudia La Rocco.
Photo above by Rosalie O’Connor, taken from Explore Dance.
I don’t know what I’d do without my Facebook friend and longtime reader Jonathan! He sent me this link announcing the schedule for the upcoming SYTYCD tour. (Thank you, as always, Jonathan, and so nice to meet you the other night at ABT!)
So looks like they’ll be at Radio City Music Hall for one night, which good because if I decide to go I don’t have to schlepp all the way out to Nassau Coliseum again.
UPDATE: Here’s another website where you can keep updated on tour dates.
Last week, my friend — the illustrious Taylor Gordon! — invited me to watch her dance in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. (Taylor, trained in classical ballet, is not a Rockette but a seasonal dancer in the show.) As last year, the show is a lot of fun, very Christmassy, very geared toward the tourist crowd and to children, with a somewhat corny story-line (younger boy strives to and eventually convinces older, more skeptical boy of Santa’s existence). But the dancing and the costumes and the sets are tremendous and are the reason you really go (if you’re an adult, that is 🙂 ).
The Rockettes in particular are wondrous. Talk about astoundingly perfect synchronicity…
The soldier scene is my favorite. They march, they step, they turn in formation in almost mind-boggling unison, and then they fall, one by one, s-l-o-w-l-y, ever so slowly, one after and onto the other, in, again, mind-bogglingly perfect timing.
And now a few pictures of Taylor! She’s in the middle, in the coolly colorful tights.
Pink scarf, green bag, cool tights. So proud of her … again!
As a Santa — I’ve no idea which one.
And as a tutu-clad bear.
And a few more of the Rockettes.
Kick line!
Finale.
Taylor’s also a writer. Visit her blog for her accounts of what it’s like to be in the show.
And here is our friend Michael’s write-up of the evening.
