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Yes the version ABT dances has completely different choreography for the SPF/Clara, including a "peekaboo" moment from the curtain.

Ratmansky is very active about removing videos of his original choreography on YT but those are unauthorized filmings. I think ABT might not have the manpower to get a complete recording. Or maybe it's a strategy. I don't know.

I see it now.

Uh I've been looking for this and it's not happening ...

There will actually be three Balanchine Nuts available to stream this season. PA Ballet is streaming their version, and PNB also streaming theirs. It will be interesting to see the differences between companies.

More tributes: From wendy: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJ5KWQpn5z/ Nikolaj Hubbe: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJlOKehbTx/ Joseph Gordon: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJ0nrBAc7w/

According to Sara Mearns' Instagram Sara Leland has passed away: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJUo2QpcHq/

I've seen Kowroski as SPF before but a long time ago. Last year I know she was working through a knee injury that ended up taking her out of the rest of Nutcracker and winter season.

NYCB will be streaming Nutcracker on Marquee Arts Dec 3 - Jan 6. https://twitter.com/nycballet/status/1331287355710443520?s=20 This holiday season New York City Ballet and Marquee TV will bring viewers around the world the opportunity to revel in the magic of NYCB’s acclaimed production of the beloved masterpiece George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® in a special streaming event available from December 11, 2020 through January 3, 2021 on Marquee TV. Tickets will be available for purchase starting November 27 at 10 AM EST at marquee.tv/nycbnutcracker and will be priced at $25 in the United States. (Prices will vary internationally.) Filmed during the Company’s 2019 season at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, the broadcast features NYCB Principal Dancers Maria Kowroski as the Sugarplum Fairy, Tyler Angle as Her Cavalier, Megan Fairchild as Dewdrop, and more than 50 New York City Ballet dancers. The production also features the 62-piece New York City Ballet Orchestra under the direction of NYCB Music Director Andrew Litton, and more than 60 children from the School of American Ballet, the official school of NYCB.

Kathryn Morgan posted this lovely clip of her doing the SPF variation: https://www.instagram.com/p/CH79P02jo3c/

Tyler Angle announced on instagram that he and his longtime partner Ralph Ippolito (a veteran corps member of NYCB) are now married. Congrats Tyler and Ralph!

Google doodles pays tribute to Maria Tallchief:

I really enjoyed PABallet's two offerings tonight. I liked Ghost Stories more on first watch but Evenings was also very good.

It wouldn't surprise me if Lauren decided to focus on choreography in the future. She always had a lighter schedule than most principal dancers, maybe because of some injuries early in her career? She was getting invites to choreograph from ABT and Vail. I wish her luck.

I'm a little confused about Lovette and her break with her parents. It sounds like she hinted that they're part of a fundamentalist cult?

Tess Reichlen on her Instagram stories seemed to post a baby bump. Congrats!

I wrote a review of all the works for bachtrack: https://bachtrack.com/review-video-new-york-city-ballet-digital-fall-lincoln-center-october-2020

I like New Song and I thought the Tanowitz work had some interesting traces of Merce Cunningham-like choreography. The two other pieces have been extremely insubstantial IMO.

Think the "new works" in recent years that will be a permanent part of the rep: Alexei Ratmansky's Russian Seasons, Namouna, Concerto DSCH, Pictures at an Exhibition Justin Peck's In Creases, Times Are Racing, Rodeo, Belles Lettres, Pulcinella Variations Wheeldon's After the Rain, This Bitter Earth, Carousel, DGV Forsythe's Herman Schmermann Kyle Abraham's Runaway

If you read Repertory in Review Mr. B's works didn't dominate the seasons in his day either. He was into giving dancers a chance at dabbling with choreography. He was also a busy man -- he frequently flew to Europe for commissions in doing choreography for opera productions. A Balanchine premiere was a big thing in his day as well. And of course not all of his works have stood test of time. There's quite a few of his ballets that simply aren't done anymore.

This is an article about the creation of the new pieces. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/how-new-york-city-ballet-took-on-the-pandemic It mentions that Harrison Coll and Indiana Woodward have moved to California to live with her parents as neither of them have any salary. Wow.

Harrison Ball I think is definitely on track for promotion. He had some injuries but was dancing a principal workload before the pandemic. Harrison Coll is someone who seemed to have gotten sidetracked with injuries and then never really returned. I think Unity, Indiana, and Emilie are the soloists on track to be promoted to principal. One thing about NYCB is that even though corps and apprentices do get fired from time to time soloists and principals are usually allowed to retire on their own terms. Some were dancing well up until retirement (Joaquin de Luz), others just danced less and less until they got the message (Janie Taylor). This was true in Mr. B's day as well -- he disliked directly firing veteran dancers. He just cast them less and less.

I've seen this ballet live (I checked my blog). Just not very often as it's really not on the regular NYCB rotation. Same with Unanswered Question -- I definitely have memories of seeing it, just not very often.

I enjoyed this afternoon's offering. The Steadfast Tin Soldier is a ballet I don't think I've seen very often live and I've been attending performances for many years.

And now the winter and spring season have been canceled.