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A review of the Australian Ballet's "Anna Karenina" by Jill Sykes in The Sydney Morning Herald. Chantal Nguyen reviews the production for Bachtrack.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre presents a new staging of "Swan Lake."

Saratoga Springs Youth Ballet, founded in 2020, prospers amid challenging circumstances.

Miami City Ballet offers a series of outdoor performances.

The Telstra Ballet Dancer Awards were presented.

Weird, and also lazy. Kaufman has done much better. I can only assume that this was some sort of clickbait attempt. Or perhaps she's just trying to prove that she's with it and ward off the possibility of losing her job to a dance writer who is Oh, those rigid, old-school types. Nothing to learn from them!

RIP. A nice interview from 2016:

Cincinnati Ballet presents a performance of "Snow White" for the visually and hearing impaired.

Ty King-Wall is retiring from the Australian Ballet.

Dayton's Gem City Ballet celebrates its thirtieth anniversary.

A review of English National Ballet by Stefan Kyriazis for The Daily Express. Louise Levene's review of ENB in The Financial Times.

A review of San Francisco Ballet by Janice Berman for San Francisco Classical Voice. Review of SFB by Charles Lewis III for 48hills.

A review of San Francisco Ballet by Steven Winn in The San Francisco Chronicle.

Danielle St. Germain-Gordon's interim appointment as San Francisco Ballet's executive director is made permanent.

Oregon Ballet Theatre's junior company performs.

Thanks, Buddy!

A review of Ballet Black by Sarah Crompton in The Guardian.

A review of Australian Ballet by Ilona Landgraf in her blog, "Landgraf on Dance."

A review of the Ballet of the Hungarian State Opera in "Mayerling" by Ilona Landgraf in her blog, "Landgraf on Dance."

A review of Ballet Black by Chris Lilly for The Reviews Hub.

A review of Ballet Black and BalletBoyz by Louise Levene in The Financial Times.

A review of BalletBoyz and Ballet Black by Debra Craine in The Times.

Igor Zelensky leaves the Bavarian State Ballet.

Smith isn't going to lose his award. I wouldn't mind if he did, mainly for aesthetic reasons, since for all his charm and appeal as a star he has little depth as an actor, but he will keep his Oscar.

Stress? Well.....Smith was up for a big professional award. Rock made a joke, the taste and intent of which can be debated, but even assuming for the sake of argument that his intentions were the worst (and the tape indicates that Smith was laughing at the joke before he looked at his wife and realized Pinkett Smith was Not Amused), what followed was pretty egregious. Jeez, he strode up, sucker-smacked the guy, and then scooted back to his seat to launch F-bombs. He was not escorted from the building. He was allowed to accept his award, talk about his special problems as a big star, got a bizarre standing O, and then went on to boogie all night as if nothing had happened. Hardly the crime of the century, but not small potatoes, and the Academy is acting accordingly, if belatedly. As for SAG, I imagine this comes under the category of a workplace incident and certain processes follow from that. I doubt Smith will be expelled, there are other lesser actions they can take.