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ABT'S 2015 NEW YORK SUMMER INTENSIVE FINAL PERFORMANCES SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY, JULY 24, 12 PM AND 2 PM AT FRANK SINATRA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS 7/9/2015 - Final performances for American Ballet Theatres New York Summer Intensive Program are scheduled for Friday, July 24, 2015 at 12 P.M. and 2 P.M. at Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, New York. The performances mark the conclusion of ABTs 20th annual New York Summer Intensive, a five-week training program for dancers ages 12 to 22. Summer Intensive students will perform selections from Coppélia, Gaîté Parisienne, Don Quixote, La Sylphide, Les Sylphides, Swan Lake, The Dream, Theme and Variations and an adaptation of Anton Dolins Variations for Four. Participants in American Ballet Theatres Summer Intensives are chosen through a cross-country audition tour sponsored by Freed of London, Ltd, which auditioned more than 4,600 students in 24 cities across the United States. ABTs 2015 Summer Intensives will reach over 1,400 participants in New York City and satellite programs in North Carolina, Alabama, Texas and California. The annual Summer Intensive at ABTs New York City studios is a comprehensive course that begins with daily ballet technique class and includes specialized classes in pointe work, partnering, jazz, character dance, modern dance, Pilates and yoga for young dancers. To complement the dancers training, lectures are offered on injury prevention, anatomy, nutrition, music, acting and dance history. Under the direction of Melissa Allen Bowman, the 2015 New York Summer Intensive Program incorporates a faculty of ABT alumni, members of ABTs Artistic Staff and renowned teachers, including Kevin McKenzie, Franco De Vita, Raymond Lukens, Kate Lydon, Susan Jaffe, Susan Jones, Clinton Luckett, Nancy Raffa, Keith Roberts, Lupe Serrano, Charles Askegard, Ethan Brown, Gabrielle Brown, Leslie Browne, Harriet Clark, Olga Dvorovenko, Carlos Lopez, Rosanna Seravalli and Cheryl Yeager. Frank Sinatra School of the Arts is located at 35-12 35th Avenue in Astoria, New York. For detailed directions, please visit www.franksinatraschoolofthearts.org. A very limited number of seats will be on sale for $15 at the door one hour prior to the performance. Adults and children, aged two and up, require a ticketed seat. For more information, please call the Summer Intensive Hotline at 212.477.3030, ext. 3416 or email summerintensive@abt.org. Please visit www.abt.org for more information. American Airlines is the Official Airline of American Ballet Theatre. Northern Trust is the Leading Corporate Sponsor of the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. ABT is supported, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. http://www.abt.org/insideabt/news_display.asp?News_ID=525

They will be in Purchase Westchester next Sat. 7/18 with Giselle Act II, DQ PdD, and other excerpts: https://tickets.artscenter.org/single/eventDetail.aspx?p=5560

According to the box office, in the very first row, your eye level will be below the stage, so you will be constantly looking up craning your neck.

Monotones May be Rhapsody won't be far behind. The tradition of no performance on Halloween evening continues. Don't quite understand the logic, Halloween and ballet demographics don't exactly overlap.

He has guested with Mariinsky and Bolshoi, both companies even put his bio on their websites: http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/persons/people/1154/ http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/company/guest_ballet/gomes/ He danced Onegin with Vishneva at Bolshoi in 2013 and will dance with her again this October: http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances/655/roles/#all

Plus Washington DC. Not sure whether Istanbul will get the old/new Beauty. The sets and costumes, cue the Panorama music, are on its way across the pond to Milan.

http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/about/press/articles/ Anna Nikulina, Anastasia Stashkevich are promoted from the Leading Soloists to Principals; Artemy Belyakov from the Soloist to the Leading Soloist, Denis Savin and Igor Tsvirko from the First Soloists to the Leading Soloists; Daria Khokhlova, Yuri Baranov from the Soloists to the First Soloists; Anastasia Vinokur, Angelina Karpova, Ana Turazashvili and Alexander Smoliyaninov from Artists to the Soloists.

The Mark Morris piece is most likely going to be modern. The only classical Morris piece that I know of is Sylvia for SFB. I do hope for a balance diet with classical ballets and tutus. I may skip any all-modern programs. The fall season will be announced this Wed.

For those who have tickets to see tomorrow evening or rather tonight Nela's Cinderella, the curtain time is 7pm, not 8pm, the usually Sat. evening time.

I am 110% certain that Eric Tamm would have been promoted had he stayed. I felt tremendous sense of loss when he left, the current promotion kind of resurrects that sentiment.

I remember Carlos Acosta joined ABT during early 2000's as a principle, not as a guest. But his tenure lasted only 2 seasons. So she'll be the 3rd black principle at ABT.

News coverage of the promotion from around the world: France http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/la-danseuse-noire-americaine-misty-copeland-entre-dans-l-histoire-30-06-2015-1941336_3.php Italy http://www.blitzquotidiano.it/foto-notizie/misty-copeland-prima-ballerina-afroamericana-2222219/ UK http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33330870 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/misty-copeland-just-became-the-first-black-female-principal-dancer-in-american-ballet-theaters-75year-history-10356175.html South Africa http://citizen.co.za/afp_feed_article/misty-copeland-celebrity-ballerina-breaks-race-ceiling/ Spain http://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20150630/54433123836/el-american-ballet-nombra-por-primera-vez-a-una-afroamericana-como-principal.html Australia http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/stage/american-ballet-theatre-names-misty-copeland-first-black-principal-ballerina-20150701-gi210z.html Canada http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/life-video/video-misty-copeland-makes-history/article25210296/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/misty-copeland-named-first-black-female-principal-at-american-ballet-theatre-1.3133426 Quebec http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/artsetspectacles/general/archives/2015/06/20150630-184208.html

I hope Royal will continue to get more solo roles and will be ready for promotion next year. He debuted Benvolio this season and he's wonderful. I wonder if Boston Ballet has any ill will toward ABT, it lost 2 principals to ABT in 3 years.

The Nutcracker season is 12/10 - 12/20/15 at OCPAC.

Daniil posted pictures of reaction of promotions on his Instagram: https://instagram.com/p/4j4wnKha8x/?taken-by=daniil Stella's is totally surprised, elated, overjoyed. While Misty's is more like "It's very nice, I know the promotion was coming."

I am extremely happy with all the promotions, but disappointed Lane and Baca were left out, hope they'll be promoted next year. The press release didn't mention when the appointment of Kochetkova, Lendorf, and Cirio will be effective, will they dance for the fall and Nutcracker season?

Does RB post castings for the NY portion of the tour on its own website? Or I have to rely on the State Theater website? There could be casting change based on Haglund's Heel 6/21 posting.

The orchestra (stall in ROH) seats are $65, $100, $140, $175 1st ring: $65, $80, $100, $140 2nd ring: $65, $80 3nd ring: $45, $65 4th ring: $25, $35 4th ring doesn't open if there're still plenty of seats in the lower rings. To compare prices across the plaza with ABT Swan Lake at the Met Orchestra: $60-$155 Parterre: $105-$235 Grand Tier: $155 Grand Box: $70 Dress Circle: $80 Dress Circle Box: $40 Balcony: $$45 Balcony Box: $25 Family Circle: $20-40 Orchestra & Grand Tier standing room: $35 Dress Circle standing room: $25 The Met has 4,000 seats, Swan Lake is sold out or close to sell out for many performances. While the State Theater where RB performs has about 2,600 seats. The RB prices are very reasonable and even cheaper than ABT's across the plaza, even cheaper with the aforementioned discounts. So price is not a factor for the poor box office showing. I think the major factors are the reps and the competition from ABT. The Ashton/McMillan mixed bills are selling better than the other mix reps. McGregor & Scarlett are simply not a big draw. I'd have bought more RB tickets if ABT is not in residence at the same time or if the programs are more compelling. An all Ashton program is very compelling in my book. RB should have bought more Ashton ballets not already performed by ABT. I bought a ticket to one of the mixed reps on Sunday (when ABT is not performing) just for the divertissement portion of the program.

I am totally shocked and saddened by the news. What a tremendous loss. Rest in peace, Albert, we all love you.

ABT is very tardy in updating its performance schedules. In addition to the fall season from Oct 21 - Nov 1 and the Nutcracker season in December, the tours that I am aware of between now and 9/2016 includes Detroit, DC, Bard College, LA, Istanbul, and Paris. I agree that ABT could tour smaller cities with smaller scale works by creating a smaller touring troupe like NYCB Moves, if it doesn't want to dilute its brand by touring the provinces.

A pair of orchestra row C center seats for Kent farewell are selling $1175 each: http://www.stubhub.com/romeo-and-juliet---american-ballet-theatre-new-york-6-20-2015-9275935/event/9275935/

Here's link to the discounted ticket: http://www.goldstar.com/events/new-york-ny/the-royal-ballet-tickets?mal=1 Look like NY is lukewarm to McGregor and Scarlett, plus ABT Swan Lake from across the Plaza doesn't help. I wonder if it's wise to come while ABT is still in season or bringing Don Q would have been doing better at the box office. Several ballet friends of mine are not interested in the McGregor/Scarlett mix reps and would like to go to the Dream mixed bills but it's in conflict with Swan Lake. I remember RB sold out at the Met last time they were here in 2004 as part of Lincoln Center Festival, and they were the only ballet game in town.

I can't have enough Ashton, and ABT has a pretty good track record performing them. So I wish the revivals of Awakening PdD, Thaïs PdD, Symphonic Variations, Les Patineurs and the acquisitions of Rhapsody, Enigma Variations, and Monotones. And it's never too early to ask for the return of A Month in a Country. Yes to Raymonda, Paquita (or the Grand Pas at the very least). Have anyone seen Ratmansky's Bolero? It's on my wish list and got a rave review from the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/arts/dance/31morphoses.html?_r=0 The restorations of Act IV of Swan lake. Restaging of Bayadere with the divertissements from the betrothal scene restored and increase the number of shades to 32. A new production of Coppelia a la Bolshoi's. I predict the casting of Cassandra Trenary as Aurora in Detroit or DC, if it happens and the out-of-town try out goes well, hope to see her Aurora at the Met.

Here's the PBS Live from Lincoln Center link: http://www.pbs.org/live-from-lincoln-center/home/ "For the first time on Live From Lincoln Center, the curtain will be drawn back on one of the world’s premier ballet academies—the School of American Ballet—with the presentation of SAB’s 50th Annual Workshop Performances. The broadcast features an all-Balanchine program (including Serenade, and excerpts from Coppélia, Swan Lake, and Western Symphony) from its 50th annual showcase as well as rare behind-the-scenes footage, offering a close-up look at the ballet stars of tomorrow."

Just a reminder, the live stream starts in 40 minutes.