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[Mme. Hermine]

Claudia LaRocco for the New York Times on the New York City Ballet:

http://www.nytimes.c...ter-review.html

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...with apologies to Mr. Fairchild, his performance was not the evening’s most thrilling event. This dashing young City Ballet principal simply had no hope of competing with the collective star power of 26 current and former company ballerinas, all of them principal dancers, who assembled onstage to receive the 2011 Jerome Robbins Award before “West Side Story Suite.”

[Mme. Hermine]

Craig McLean interviews Paul McCartney for the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph...new-master.html

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One year shy of his 70th birthday, and five years after hitting the age at which he once predicted he’d be mending fuses and digging weeds, playful Sir Paul is still having fun. Now, 20 years since he created his first classical piece, the Liverpool Oratorio, he’s written his first ballet.

[Helene]

Eva Kistrup reviews Royal Danish Ballet in "Bournonville Fantasi", "Donizetti Variations", and "Etudes" for her blog on danceviewtimes.

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We all live in financial times and the Royal Danish Ballet is subjected to cuts in numbers of productions and performances. That put special demands on the Ballet Master because the limit for mistakes get smaller. With fever opportunities the hit rate must be higher. With this programme named "Virtuoso Steps" Nikolaj Hübbe shows his high quality levels and his skills in selecting appropriate works for the company and it stars.