Novice123

I've bought 6 flex shows and will buy the rest when casting info becomes available and for any additional retirements. This is the way. (My way at least).

Ballet fans like to think they are progressive and liberal but not really.

I'm not a Taylor Swift fan, I don't listen to her music but she's to blame for the decline of ballet?

So, as far as world knows, or those who reads the NY Times, everyone is simply "marvelous! Darling! simply marvelous!".

The expectation and desire by those in the "high" arts for less transparent, less open is fascinating. Reminds me of the SNL skit "You look marvelous darling, simply marvelous".

Pros have no weakness and have nothing to improve?

I too saw Periera and Ulbricht in Nutcracker but it was NOT at NYCB! They were guest artists for my local company. Ulbricht has been guesting for many years and his Sugar Plum has always been another NYCB dancer so it is a treat. I went to NYCB Nutcracker today (Saturday matinee) and the children were incredibly well behaved and very cute. After the show you can see how excited they were. Any dance performance that can get children to jump and spin is a good show. I saw two little girls trying their version of the fish dive. Maybe that was a bit risky.

Employee of the month decisions in corporate are not objective. I work for a multi billion dollar company in IT, notable mentions, promotions, etc. all have large subjective components. Are we saying that subjective judgments should be kept private? Does this mean all critique at rehearsals should also be made sotto voce so the rest of the company will not know what was said.

Managers internally praise their direct reports all the time. Managers also externally praise their direct reports all the time. It is not considered favoritism. Employees of the month is a common practice where managers selected workers to be acknowledged. They even post them publicly. During and after a project, managers will direct praise on some workers. I've praised and have received praised. It is common practice in other industries. Why would dance be different.

A few years back at the Met, I sat next to one of these doctors. She was called away and never returned.

That is a sweet story.

Haven't heard about this until I came across this article, link provided by balletcoforum. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3236306/american-ballet-theatre-excited-about-return-china-november Ok, I looked at ABT.org and they do list them on the ABT on Tour. Not much publicity.

ROH has similar for their Friends. They even post some on YT for everyone to watch.

So, you're saying that they shouldn't have made those criticism public? So, if somebody did you wrongly, your advice would be to wait a few years and see how you feel? Are you saying that those dancers who showed up and posted positive posts on social media should now publicly say that they were wrong to criticized NYCB and that they are sorry for the harm they've caused to this "great institution"? If so, I think I would follow Trump's example, and sue all these ex-dancers for defamation and make them penniless.

Are you implying that their criticisms were falsely made?