PATTI LUPONE WILL MAKE NEW YORK CITY BALLET DEBUT NEXT YEAR
March 9, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
According to Playbill, Broadway legend Patti LuPone will make her NYCB debut next year, in the company’s Spring 2011 season. She’ll act in a new production, by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, of The Seven Deadly Sins, a Kurt Weill ballet with libretto by Bertolt Brecht. Balanchine choreographed the original version of that ballet, which is about a character depicted both by an actress and a dancer.
I’ve never seen the ballet but I love LuPone. Something definitely to look forward to. For a little more about the history of that ballet, see the NYTimes ArtsBeat blog’s post.
Above image of LuPone in Gypsy, taken ...
PATTI LUPONE WILL MAKE NEW YORK CITY BALLET DEBUT NEXT YEAR
March 9, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
According to Playbill, Broadway legend Patti LuPone will make her NYCB debut next year, in the company’s Spring 2011 season. She’ll act in a new production, by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, of The Seven Deadly Sins, a Kurt Weill ballet with libretto by Bertolt Brecht. Balanchine choreographed the original version of that ballet, which is about a character depicted both by an actress and a dancer.
I’ve never seen the ballet but I love LuPone. Something definitely to look forward to. For a little more about the history of that ballet, see the NYTimes ArtsBeat blog’s post.
Above image of LuPone in Gypsy, taken ...
JEWELS
March 4, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
Janie Taylor and Benjamin Millepied in “Rubies.” All photos are by Paul Kolnik.
Sterling Hyltin and Gonzalo Garcia in “Rubies.”
Jonathan Stafford and Sara Mearns in “Diamonds.”
Maria Kowroski and Charles Askegard and cast in “Diamonds.”
Abi Stafford and Jason Fowler in “Emeralds.”
So New York City Ballet ended its Winter season with Balanchine’s Jewels, his three-act abstract ballet in homage to three different styles of classical ballet: “Emeralds” set to Gabriel Faure in honor of the French style; “Rubies” set to Stravinsky in honor of the American jazzy / showgirl-y style; and “Diamonds” set to Romantic Tchaikovsky and in the imperial, celebratory Russian style.
“Diamonds” ...
JEWELS
March 4, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
Janie Taylor and Benjamin Millepied in “Rubies.” All photos are by Paul Kolnik.
Sterling Hyltin and Gonzalo Garcia in “Rubies.”
Jonathan Stafford and Sara Mearns in “Diamonds.”
Maria Kowroski and Charles Askegard and cast in “Diamonds.”
Abi Stafford and Jason Fowler in “Emeralds.”
So New York City Ballet ended its Winter season with Balanchine’s Jewels, his three-act abstract ballet in homage to three different styles of classical ballet: “Emeralds” set to Gabriel Faure in honor of the French style; “Rubies” set to Stravinsky in honor of the American jazzy / showgirl-y style; and “Diamonds” set to Romantic Tchaikovsky and in the imperial, celebratory Russian style.
“Diamonds” ...
10 Questions With…Maria Hanley
February 26, 2010 · Posted by 4dancers ·
Today’s 10 Questions With… features a fellow dance blogger and educator Maria Hanley…
1. How did you get into dance and what are you doing right now?
My mom signed me up for dance class when I was 3 years old. I was a leader for the babies, an assistant, a teacher and then became a dance major. I then moved to New York City to earn my masters in dance education and here I stay. I live in NYC and look at myself as an independent dance educator. I teach for New York City Ballet’s outreach programs, I teach creative movement ...
NYCB CLOSES ITS FIRST CLASSICAL SEASON WITH BALANCHINE AND ROBBINS
February 24, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
(photo of Liebslieder Walzer by Paul Kolnik, taken from Washington Post review).
New York City Ballet is closing out its Winter season — and first ever Classical season — this week. Tomorrow begins Balanchine’s masterpiece (imo), Jewels (which continues through Sunday); last week were two programs of mixed rep, which included Balanchine’s Liebeslieder Walzer and Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2, and Jerome Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering and West Side Story Suite.
Making his debut in Liebeslieder was corps member Justin Peck (headshot above by Paul Kolnik, from NYCB website); he danced the part that Nilas Martins is dancing in the photo ...
NYCB CLOSES ITS FIRST CLASSICAL SEASON WITH BALANCHINE AND ROBBINS
February 24, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
(photo of Liebslieder Walzer by Paul Kolnik, taken from Washington Post review).
New York City Ballet is closing out its Winter season — and first ever Classical season — this week. Tomorrow begins Balanchine’s masterpiece (imo), Jewels (which continues through Sunday); last week were two programs of mixed rep, which included Balanchine’s Liebeslieder Walzer and Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2, and Jerome Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering and West Side Story Suite.
Making his debut in Liebeslieder was corps member Justin Peck (headshot above by Paul Kolnik, from NYCB website); he danced the part that Nilas Martins is dancing in the photo ...
Wheeldon leaves his Morphoses
February 22, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
Christopher Wheeldon Leaves Dance Company He Created
by Daniel J. Wakin and Alistair Macaulay, The New York Times, February 22, 2010
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Wheeldon leaves his Morphoses
February 22, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
Christopher Wheeldon Leaves Dance Company He Created
by Daniel J. Wakin and Alistair Macaulay, The New York Times, February 22, 2010InfiniteBody
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KINGS OF THE DANCE SHOWS HOW DANCER-RICH BUT CHOREOGRAPHY-IMPOVERISHED BALLET IS IN THE BALANCHINE-INUNDATED U.S.
February 21, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
Photo of Desmond Richardson by Andrea Mohin, taken from NYTimes.
So, “Kings of the Dance” made the New York stop of its international tour this weekend at City Center. I was there Friday night. The last time this show toured here several years ago (it is produced by Russian dance promoter Sergei Danilian) there were only four male dancers — Angel Corella, Ethan Stiefel (both of American Ballet Theater), Johan Kobborg of the Royal Ballet in England, and Nikolay Tsiskaridze of the Bolshoi. This year, there were many more dancers and Tsiskaridze was the only one who returned (and, funny, but ...
