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Woodward is still listed for this weekend (in Dances at a Gathering), at least in the cast list on the NYCB website. Are people seeing something different elsewhere?

Yes, hence the NYT headline: "Mariinsky Dancers Barred..."

It was certainly a controversial decision — but a debacle?

The Times has details on next year's offerings here. (Link should work for non-subscribers.)

I really don't think there's going to be widespread confusion about an obscure Balanchine ballet from 1933 (revived and adapted in 1935 and 1941), especially when all it takes is a glance at the more detailed info in any program or on any repertory page to clarify what's what. Do we even know when this piece was last performed or if its choreography is known by anyone living? Balanchine himself seems to have been unbothered by the recycling of titles for wholly different works (e.g. Mozartiana — admittedly using the same music, but still), or by changing the name of existing works to suit the tastes (his own or others') of a new time.

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Phelan in the Brahms-Schoenberg gypsy rondo? Hmmm.

Sure, it's a fact. But it's also rhetoric. There's a message in how it's presented — and in the fact that it's the only fact stated in the byline.

Yes, just because someone's hired into the corps without their height totally precluding their ever being considered for promotion doesn't mean that height won't end up being one (if not the) reason they are or aren't promoted. Promotions happen in the context of the company at a particular time, including the needs and capacities (e.g. potential partners, repertoire) of the upper ranks at that time.

Oh how I wish I were seeing Gordon's debut with Peck in Ballo della Regina!

The venue rental info on BAM's website includes the following detail:

There was at one time (and may still be) a video on YouTube of Susan Jaffe and Nikolaj Hübbe performing the final movement. ETA: Yes, here it is:

Just a heads-up for Sarah's many fans and those who miss seeing her dance, that Nutcracker video is one of nearly 20 she's posted to her YouTube in the past few weeks.

I'm not sure what that tells us; the same could be said of literally any location and the fans who live too far away from it to get there easily for a performance. A lot of people can't easily get to Brooklyn for a performance, but a lot of people can't easily get to any given location. The population of Manhattan is ~1.63 million. Queens is ~2.27 million. Brooklyn is ~2.58 million. A lot of people live in Brooklyn, and a lot of others can pretty easily get there. ABT's problem with sustaining their Nutcracker in the NYC area can't really have been about the size or makeup of the proximate-to-BAM population.

Is there any obvious role/casting he should/could have gotten, in what's already been named? He couldn't really take any of Cornejo's current spots, and I don't see any other workable possibilities, given who else needs to dance. It's possible the season design and current roster (both male and female) just made it inevitable that he wouldn't be named cast until the secondary roles get announced.