After the obligatory weeks of auditions, Vegas week and the top 20 introductions, So You Think You Can Dance got the ninth season competition off to a great start last night. Christopher Scott got things rolling with a great Mad Men inspired group number, which had...
The 2012 American Ballet Theatre season at the Metropolitan Opera House concluded last night with the swashbuckling adventure Le Corsaire. Not only was it the final performance of the season, it was also the final ABT performance for principal dancer Ethan Stiefel,...
Last night we finally got to see American Ballet Theatre do one of the most well known ballets: Swan Lake. We didn’t have this in our subscription package last year and we made sure to get it this year. I’m so glad we did because it was every bit as good...
Last night we got to see a mixed repertory bill from the American Ballet Theatre comprised of The Dream and Firebird. These two ballets connected nicely to each other as they both featured supernatural happenings. Where the two diverged is that The Dream was comedic...
My attempt to see every production in ABT’s current season continued last night with Romeo and Juliet. I don’t think anyone needs me to regurgitate the plot so I’ll move on to what I thought about the production. Julie Kent danced Juliet and she was,...
Last night we got to see American Ballet Theatre’s new production of Onegin. What an amazing ballet this is, so beautiful and so tragic as it tells a story of double unrequited love. This piece, originally created by the Stuttgart Ballet in 1965, was revised by...