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The promotion refers to "An evening at the ballet: Curated" [ugh] "by Misty Copeland."

Indeed. Tacky, tacky, tacky. People shouldn't have to look up something that's implied to find out it isn't true.

The Cunningham Trust workshop of Split Sides (2003) will be livestreamed here on Friday, June 12 at 4:30.

Hmmm. The 92nd Street Y event has not been made available online, but a Doubles studio event from the previous day I was not aware of is now online here on the Tisch dance site.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Birdwatcher. I see there are some related videos.

Thanks for the reply, Helene, but what perplexes me is that it's so short. Oregon Ballet Theatre and A Band of Horses were on the same program, so I guess that added up to a full evening. Perhaps if I'd been in the theater, or at Wolf Trap, and especially if I knew the dancers and saw new qualities in them in this work, I would have appreciated it for what it was.

LOL. No argument here. But I'm curious - Boal noted, or maybe someone here noted, that this was premiered at Wolf Trap. I remember seeing that multi-media program advertised and deciding to pass on it. Was what we saw last night just an excerpt? PNB's website refers to "Andrew Bartee’s Wolf Trap commission on a program of contemporary ballet, indie rock, and film." Did the company perform more of this in Seattle? ETA: PNB, please come back to Wolf Trap or the Kennedy Center with some Balanchine!

For the first couple minutes of Serenade, at least on my stream, there was music only, then silence and the Intermission sign again, then silence, etc. Funny, but opera transmissions, like on the new website The Opera Platform and from the Bayerishce Staatsopera, stream in high quality With very few glitches.

She was poised and lovely - no surprise there.

Blurry picture with little pinpricks of light constantly appearing and disappearing like twinkling stars; pop-ups, an ad, and warnings of more ads; video out of sync with the audio. And still, Korbes was breathtaking!

Maybe he overdid it, but the foot tapping is traditional.

Ah, thank you for reminding me of that. Erica Cornejo is another ABT dancer I miss, although I see she's still with Boston Ballet. But yes, that performance you mention is a delight. Part danced the principal role that same week, and I wish they'd filmed her instead, but at least we have Reyes and Cornejo.

Thanks for letting us know, abatt. I remember Williams in that solo when I first saw the company in '76 or '77, and I suppose he'd probably been dancing it for a decade by then. Here is one clip of his performance, but the one I wish I could find is from the Ailey Memorial at St. John the Divine. I see there is also a conversation with him that took place at the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center just last year.

I see. Sorry to have misunderstood you.

Yes, but he uses it to condemn what he means by it. Sensitivity is just a form of courtesy, of course, which is itself a form of respect. But when respect goes both ways, people are slow to take offense.

It's considered offensive thanks to Edward Said, yes, and has been replaced by Asian. Fine and good. But I'll bet a dollar to a dime that whoever used the term chinoserie meant no offense and no belittlement, and I think that for all but terms that have historically only been used to offend or belittle, a good rule of thumb is not to take offense where none was meant. (I realize you did not take offense).

It is. I believe they were both featured in one segment of the aol series.

Means danced This Bitter Earth in D.C. last month. The whole thing was too overwrought for my taste, but perhaps it was less so with Whelan.

Macaulay directly followed Rockwell, as you may remember, and to me it was like day following night. Rockwell's knowledge of ballet and ballet history never seemed very deep. As much as I like Gottlieb, Macaulay is the critic currently writing who most helps me see the steps and better understand the ballet. I also read his cracks as attempts at wit, not mean-spiritedness, although that doesn't excuse them.

Interesting point, but then it’s not so surprising - not as dramatic - when a wild partier meets a tragic end. Still, was the role really played as an innocent originally? Nancy Reynolds refers to LeClerq's “angular sophistication and doomed half-innocence” (the former sounds like LeClerq as she's been described in just about any role, granted, but the latter not), and says that when it was revived McBride “brought to it an other-worldly, almost vampire-like characterization, with a quality of sophistication Leland also found.” Mazzo and Farrell, she says “played the role more as an innocent young girl.” Reynolds also quotes LeClerq as saying Balanchine (typically) “didn’t say anything about acting or reacting at all.”

Apparently she agrees she could have danced longer, but felt it was time to step aside for younger dancers. She told the NY Times Thank you, everyone, for the reviews. She was my favorite ABT dancer as well. I was able to see her one last time in Cinderella in March.

Does he give too much or too little space to ballet history? The poor guy can't win. I enjoy hearing different opinions, but I, at least, do not long for the days of Anna Kisselgoff, although I enjoyed her at the time. I find Macaulay's writing much richer.

A canned or potted history would be one more or less copied from someone else. Macaulay's steeped in ballet history, but he only has so much space to spend on it, and as sandik suggests, he's probably supposed to keep in mind his non-balletomane audience. Short background histories for non-specialists aren't the place to be original.

She was lovely in Emeralds at the Kennedy Center last year.

I think saying someone's nose is too big would be mean, because there is nothing the dancer could do about it, or should have to do about it. But if a dancer is actually opting to alter her appearance so that it's non-traditional, I think that's fair game. Others may like it or not find it distracting, but if he does, he should say something. He's not saying he doesn't like something about her, he's saying he doesn't like a choice she's making. And chances are, he's not alone. ETA: Not to excuse flip and tasteless comments like the Hitler Youth comparison.