Le Corsaire, a slightly comedic, very swashbuckling, pirate-based ballet was a favorite last year. With its very powerful male dancing and a second act that’s loaded with virtuous performances it was easy to fall in love with the production. This year, American...
We arrived at the half way point in our American Ballet Theatre season yesterday afternoon with the Shostakovich Trilogy, which is a premiere work from the company’s artist-in-residence, Alexei Ratamnsky. The performance, set to three different pieces of music...
We made a return visit to Don Quixote yesterday afternoon. We first saw the comedic Don Quixote when we started going to the ABT Met seasons in 2011. The story is a straight forward one. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza arrive in Sevilla. They meet Kitri, who is in love...
Our American Ballet Theatre season continued Tuesday night with a mixed repertory program featuring Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, the company premiere of A Month in the Country and Symphony in C. It was a wonderful evening featuring many of ABT’s principal...
We started our third season of American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House yesterday afternoon with the beautiful and tragic Onegin. Onegin was presented at the Met for the first time in its new ABT production last season. It became one of my favorites...
New York City Ballet celebrated the 109th birthday of its co-founder George Balanchine with its third annual Saturday at the Ballet with George. The program, which ran during the company’s Tschaikovsky Celebration featured a day of activities. We attended the...
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