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?

The rally starts 6:30pm. https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Musicians-of-the-New-York-City-Ballet-Orchestra-to-Rally-for-a-Fair-Contract-in-Front-of-Lincoln-Center-on-Opening-Night-20230913

Who got tickets for Fall for Dance 2023? I went online yesterday and my queue was in the 3800's. Yikes! I dropped out, when outside. Came back around 3pm and got tickets. Some of them are way of the side and I'll be lucky to see 2/3 of the stage but can't complain. Programs 1-3 appears to be more sold than 4 and 5 based on the seat locations assigned to me.

If I change the bet to one arm and one leg, would you accept them if I lose?

I will bet both of my legs that the health care contribution will be higher than the 3% wage increase. Does anyone want to take my bet. If I lose, I'll send you my legs, nice cut and frozen.

Why is ballet dying, why is classical music dying, why is Opera dying? Why are all of these "high art" forms dying even though they are supported by self-identified NYC liberals? I believe the answer is self-evident.

FYI, I tried using my DTH email with link to Sept 30th again and this time I was able to get through. There are quite a few seats up on the 4th ring. I had already purchased for Oct 1st, hence I didn't buy. So, keep trying because my code was flakey. It didn't work earlier but working now. Perhaps the 4th ring was not opened earlier today and NYCB has opened up the 4th ring? I didn't see available seats in the lower rings.

I received an email from DTH with a special code for Sept 30th but it didn't work. Appeared to be sold out. I have ticket for Oct 1st and have plans for the 30th but was curious if that code had worked because the email from DTH said that this is a special offer from NYCB to DTH members and the offers is good until April 13th. I though deadline was so long ago, why am I receiving it now from DTH.

Update on the Service Fee charged for tickets during the advance window. As some members here have noted, some subscribers were charged 8$ service fee per ticket. I called customer support and will be refunded the $8 per tickets. However, the Nutcracker ticket was charged the $8 service fee. The customer care person said that all Nutcracker tickets will have the service fees.

I do this for all ticket regardless of how I wanted my tickets to be delivered. Go to manage ticket and email a copy to myself. I would open the email and view the pdf. I would do a screen shot on the pdf. Now I have a screenshot of the ticket and I would open the file on my phone to be scanned. Previous years the Nutcracker ticket was paper only but this year, Print at Home was allowed. Much better.

It seems like experiences online varied. What I did was I didn't use incognito mode. I clicked on double horizontal line icon on the top left (above the ticket icon). Once clicked, it expanded to show me the different "seasons" I would mouse over it and it would further expand to show me the programs within the season and I would select the program, purchase my ticket, clicked on continue shopping and repeat the process. At no time did I use the dreaded back arrow.