July 13 2024 7:30 evening Boosted by the music of Jonathan Dove, Michael Zev Gordon, Ottorino Respighi, Aldemaro Romeo, and William Grant, Amy Hall Garner’s Underneath, there is Light is a thrilling ballet. The well-designed costumes of Marc Happel—the women in airy dresses, the men in sleek pants or shorts, allow all to showcase their…
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New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center featuring Emilie Gerrity, Unity Phelan, Anthony Huxley, Taylor Stanley
Stanley Laracey and Taylor Stanley, SYMPHONY IN THREE MOVEMENTS All images courtesy NYCB (photo credits: Erin Baiano) NYCB has a lot to celebrate this year. Three ballet masterpieces. SCÈNES DE BALLET Christopher Wheeldon’s Scènes de Ballet is wonderfully nostalgic, a sensitive look into the world of ballet training for young children and older teens. The…
Review of Edward Villella’s Prodigal Son and Peter Boal’s Illusions of Camelot
Featured image: Peter Boal as a student, courtesy Peter Boal Edward Villella The author discusses dancing as a powerful drug, in which muscles come alive. But performance also can be like running a stamina-draining marathon, tapping into stores of energy, then needing to manage an adrenaline rush that can take hours to relax from. All…
NYCB: 75th ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM
Featured Image—Symphony in C with Morgan Fairchild and Joseph Gordon Photo: Erin Baiano WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 8:00 PM The October 11, 2023 Anniversary Program mirrored the inaugural one 75 years earlier. Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco displayed the poetry, sensitivity and dramatic reach of arms and legs of Emilie Gerrity and Unity Phelan, partnered by Andrew…
NYCB performs Serenade, Orpheus, Theme and Variations
All photos, courtesy of NYCB. Featured Photo, Indiana Woodward in Serenade. Photo: Erin Baiano TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 7:30 PM Serenade, an early Balanchine ballet, famously begins with the dramatic chords of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings and hand gestures of the dancers on stage. With its long tulle skirts, evocative lighting, and dancer speed and…
New York City Ballet’s 75th—Concerto Barocco, Prodigal Son, Symphony in C
Symphony in C with Morgan Fairchild and Joseph Gordon Photo Credit: Erin Baiano In 1948, Concerto Barocco appeared on the first program of the New York City Ballet—exemplifying the Balanchine choreography that would become its trademark—showcasing energetic arms and legs, upright torso, flexible hands and feet. Quick and precise, the dance is a clear reflection…
New York City Ballet’s 75th anniversary season—Apollo, La Sonnambula, and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
Balanchine’s Apollo. Pictured here, Chun Wai Chan and Mira Nadon. Photo Credit: Erin Baiano October 7 matinee In its 75th anniversary season this fall, NYCB offered a matinee performance of the company’s foundational work with Balanchine’s Apollo, La Sonnambula, and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2—allegorical, mysterious, and glorious looks, respectively, into the prolific creativity of…
New York City Ballet’s La Valse, and more
NYCB fall program
Innovators and Icons
Review of NYCB’s stunning fall program
Robbins Bigonzetti Ratmansky
The September 25 evening program of the New York City Ballet’s fall season opened with Opus 19/The Dreamer, set to Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, the composer’s first violin concerto and often referred to as “music in technicolor.” So, too, Jerome Robbins’ colorful dance, with lead couple Tiler Peck and Gonzalo Garcia, and a…