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Christopher D'Addario isn't going quietly.

A piece in The New Yorker on how New York City Ballet has coped with the pandemic, by Michael Schulman.

Thank you for posting, cubanmiamiboy. Connery spent a lot of time in movies I don't much care for, but it was nice having him around. The Man Who Would Be King is terrific and he's terrific in it. Also The Untouchables. He was a good Hotspur for television.

A death notice for Susan Hendl.

Still no obit in the NYT.

RIP. Obituary in The Los Angeles Times. The Daily Telegraph

New York City Ballet will return to live performance in the fall of 2021. Related.

Houston Ballet hosts drive-in movies featuring dance.

Bavarian State Ballet goes into quarantine.

Northern Ballet presents a live performance with performers and audience maintaining social distancing.

New papers are filed by Chase Finlay's attorney in what remains of Alexandra Waterbury's lawsuit.

Dance Theatre of Harlem creates a video to celebrate Harlem Week 2020.

A performance is held to benefit a new organization formed to support members of New York City Ballet.

In reading the Finlay filing I was reminded of the incident where the former Mrs. Tiger Woods, Elin Nordegren, upon learning of his multiple infidelities, clawed his face and went after him with a golf club, causing him to exit the house abruptly and crash his SUV. She claimed she had busted the SUV's window with the club in an effort to help her husband, but it didn't look that way to the cops, who wouldn't let her ride in the ambulance with him. Woods did and said the appropriate things to protect his wife. However, it was by all reports uncharacteristic behavior by Nordegren under great stress and an isolated incident. It was wrong, even so, and it's hard not to think that Nordegren took for granted that whatever her husband's problems keeping it in his pants, he would not retaliate in kind when she attacked him or risk hurting her trying to protect himself; he did the only thing he could do if he couldn't calm her down, which was get out of there. Male-on-female domestic violence, in comparison, tends to follow a repetitive pattern of seduction and battery designed to control the woman physically and psychologically over time. Female-on-male domestic violence tends to be more driven by impulse or self-defense. If even half of what Finlay alleges is true and reported in context, I would say that Waterbury doesn't fit into either category: She needs help. If it's true that she lied when she claimed Finlay had been physically abusive when in fact the reverse was the truth, that's........not good. I will say she gave him at least one piece of sound advice: Wise words, Alex.

Fathom Events is presenting "The Shining" in cinemas this week, although nowhere near me, alas.

Thank you for your interest and introducing yourself, dalayrac. I look forward to reading your posts!

A review of the Royal Ballet by Louise Levene for The Spectator.

A review of Pacific Northwest Ballet's digital season opener by Sondra Forsyth for Broadway World.

An interview with Tiler Peck.

Pacific Northwest Ballet makes a digital return after a seven month closure.

I agree. Also, Finlay did behave reprehensibly even if he can prove himself innocent of intent and it would be foolish of him to try to downplay that. I'm guessing that any such circulation of the posts by the men or contacts friendly to the men at that stage would have done nothing to deflect Waterbury and backfired badly, no matter how awful they made Waterbury look.

The Dance in America programs were four hour long presentations. Balanchine did present a few works in their entirety. The Jewels excerpts were still substantial portions that gave you a good taste of the ballet and I would say Balanchine's excerpts were better chosen than some of the current ones. They are only pieces of the ballet but they stand alone decently enough. I don't think this is true of many of the excerpts of this digital season. It could be that they are selecting from hunger, but they are still unsatisfying out of context. I'm guessing Mr. B would have given us at least two parts of Ivesiana.

Yes, I posted that one for the Links. I hope Ms. Kelly gets around to that book she's been promising us for years now. But I digress. Hoping that Rall's death gets more attention than it's received so far. Looking at you, NYT.

Thank you for posting the news, volcanohunter. He was a marvelous dancer, who didn't have the movie career he deserved for the reasons cited by miliosr above. Donald O' Connor in conversation with Mindy Aloff, 1979.

An interview with Anne Searcy, the author of “Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange.”