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aurora

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  1. American Ballet Theatre 2024 Dancer Promotions We are thrilled to announce this year's promotions! Jarod Curley, Carlos Gonzalez, and Jake Roxander have been promoted to the rank of Soloist. The promotions, announced today by ABT Artistic Director Susan Jaffe, are effective immediately. Read the dancers' bios below and catch them during our upcoming 2024 Summer season at the Metropolitan Opera House from June 18–July 22! https://www.abt.org/2024-promotions-announced/
  2. As someone who spent last year working without a contract, it is legal. Ultimately when a new deal was agreed, it was retroactive, so we received a lump sum of back pay.
  3. Bouder posted on Instagram yesterday: https://www.instagram.com/p/C2c7o96LFmH/ I read the following as implying she's out all season but I suppose it doesn't necessarily. "Merde everyone tonight and for the season."
  4. That sounds right to me. The only other major traditional Nutcracker besides NYCB's that I remember being around seasonally (before ABT brought the Ratmansky one in 2010), was the Joffrey's old version choreographed by Joffrey and Arpino starting (I think) in the late 80s and continuing into the 90s at City Center.
  5. And neither the McKenzie nor the Baryshnikov were done in NYC as far as I remember.
  6. I'm 100% in agreement with Drew. I saw 2 of the casts last year and was sorry to not be seeing the third. I also felt that the story worked much better for me on the second viewing. The first time I was busy trying to follow the complicated compressed storyline and missed a lot of the nuances which I appreciated much more the second time round. Do I consider it a must see ballet for me? Well no, but I very much enjoyed it and will be happy to see it again.
  7. Totally agreed. There is no reason to keep him in the corps any longer. He should be promoted.
  8. As someone who works at a very challenging and incredibly poorly paid job, I wasn't at all insulted by what you said. Moreover their responsibilities last much longer than their "performance" weeks and I think that should be reflected in their pay. They still need to train almost constantly to stay at the required fitness levels--that's literally part of the job. I've never heard that professional athletes should be paid much less than they are because they only work for a small portion of the year. And they generally make so much more than even the highest paid dancers.
  9. There are many favored brands. Freed is used by NYCB as their main shoe though--at least that used to be the case (and I think still is?)
  10. Agreed. I'll also say that I saw the rehearsal on weds and the evening performance where he almost dropped Teuscher but held on. It was fine in rehearsal. I don't even think it was "anxiety" for him as much as it was "over excitement". That dress rehearsal was the first one where I've ever heard the repeated 'correction' to "Remember this is just a dress rehearsal not a performance! Keep something back!!"
  11. I'm in the 4th ring for the Gala (although that probably is different than a normal night in that regard)
  12. Blaine Hoven was not one of the dancers last night. The male dancers were: joão Menegussi (w/ Erica Lall) Carlos Gonzalez (w/ Betsy McBride) Joseph Markey (w/ SunMi Park) Herman Cornejo (w/ Cassandra Trenary) Corey Stearns (w/Chloe Misseldine) Joo Won Ahn (w/ Hee Seo) Perhaps you confused Markey for Hoven. For those who are interested, the alternate cast seems to be (based on the dress rehearsal yesterday): Zimmi Coker and Jacob Clerico Kanon Kimura and Kento Sumitani Breanne Granlund and Sung Woo Han Fangqi Li and James Whiteside Katherine WIliams and Thomas Forster Luciana Paris and Andrii Ishchuk
  13. Same. It had variety (I enjoyed Petit Mort myself, though I get why it isn't everyone's cup of tea) and Etudes was thoroughly enjoyable!
  14. Wayne Sleep's show was not the main point of the discussion. If it was it would not have been taking place on the NYCB board. In the section I quote you said: The person claiming that there were many larger dancers who could do NYCB's rep never spoke of "overweight people." You are the one who interpreted it thus.
  15. There is a very large range between "larger than your average NYCB dancer" (or other ballet company of your choice) and "fat." Under no reasonable metric is Bouder, for example, "fat."
  16. It is the only active ABT account. Given the nature of the statement, I see no reason to doubt it is an official statement.
  17. This comment has been added onto Gabe's post: abtofficial: In accordance with our dancers’ union contract, in December 2022 we informed Mr. Stone Shayer verbally and in writing that we would not be renewing his contract. Gabe has been a valuable member of ABT for over a decade. We wish him the best in his future endeavors and thank him for many years of artistry as part of ABT.
  18. It also sounds pretty unbelievable that he wasn't aware of this, after his total (?) absence from spring season casting
  19. They are * but 1) I notice none of them are from his coworkers and 2) you can delete comments.... *There are actually a few negative responses which can be found in response to a comment of support (by @leemore).
  20. They are brothers. Jake Roxander has talked about him on his Instagram.
  21. Agreed--I saw him a little over a year ago with Studio company, and was blown away then. Coker also looked very good in the rehearsal (none of the amaturishness complained of above) but she wasn't-- I don't know--selling it as much as I expected. I think perhaps because it was rehearsal, not a performance. In any case I'm a huge fan of hers and would love to see her do it in a performance! (I'm out of town for the rest of this week)
  22. Roxander in the peasant pas was also 🔥🔥🔥!
  23. I saw her first act in the dress rehearsal yesterday. I don't want to write a full review as it was just that, a rehearsal, but I was very pleased. Teuscher is not a dancer I could easily imagine as Giselle, but I really enjoyed her performance. She had a good connection with Bell, and I found her mad scene somewhat understated but quite moving! She made some interesting (and for me, very successful) choices. I'd definitely go to see her in Giselle in the future based on what I saw.
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