The most recent Works & Process at the Guggenheim looked at Commedia dell’arte ballets from Petipa ("Les millions d'Arlequin") and Balanchine: "Harlequinade"...
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In her début as the Sylph, Lovette was warm, soft, enticing, more child-like than enigmatic.
At first glance, it’s hard to think of two choreographers more unalike than August Bournonville and Balanchine...
The New York City Ballet spring season is off to the races with a week devoted to George Balanchine, specifically the “black-and-white” ballets that for many have come to define his style.
Oksana Khadarina reviews the Serenade, Agon and Symphony in C bill - prepare for many happy adjectives and lots of history...
If Harlequinade is somewhat less than the sum of its parts, Square Dance (1957), which preceded it on the program, never fails to lift the heart.
Year after year, I see Balanchine’s Nutcracker, and year after year I marvel at its perfection. This year it turns sixty.
"...it’s hard not to get the impression that New York City Ballet is on a roll."
It’s as pointless to complain about ballet galas as it is to grumble about the weather. They serve a purpose...
Acheron, Liam Scarlett's new piece, revealed a choreographer of prodigious imagination and compositional craft, adept at building an atmosphere and suffusing it with traces of meaning.
I’m not yet fully convinced of the wisdom of New York City Ballet’s thematic seasons, organized around the music of a single composer....