Thursday, March 26

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Houston Ballet cancels its spring Nutcracker Market.

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This would have been the second Nutcracker Spring Market. Nearly 160 vendors were lined up to travel to Houston for the Houston Ballet fundraiser.

 

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Promotions at Boston Ballet for the 2020-21 season.

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It is an internationally diverse lineup, with five of the performers joining the company just last year. The Armenian-born Mkrtchyan, a finalist at the 2009 Prix de Lausanne, was formerly with Ballet Zurich. Soo-bin Lee, winner of the Vaganova-Prix International Competition in 2016, and Sun Woo Lee , a guest principal dancer with Russia’s Primorsky Ballet Theatre, were both born and trained in South Korea.

 

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A  story on dance and dancers online during the pandemic by Laura Regensdorf for Vanity Fair.

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“The return to discipline, it’s really comforting in this sort of nebulous malaise,” said James Whiteside, after he and fellow American Ballet Theatre principal Isabella Boylston led me through upbeat tendus and rond de jambes. When the BFFs began livestreaming their daily barre exercises last Tuesday, the Cindies (as they call each other) met up in Boylston’s kitchen, like two prize-winning dressage horses in a rather tiny stall; by mid-week they were teaching in split-screen format from their respective apartments. In a market newly flooded with virtual classes, the pair’s brand identity is strong: rigor, sass, pop soundtrack.........

 

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New York City Ballet cancels its spring season.

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City Ballet board members approved the plan on a Wednesday afternoon conference call, said Katherine E. Brown, the company’s executive director. The cancellation of the season — which was set to begin on April 21 — would mean a projected financial loss of about $8 million for the company by the end of this fiscal year, which includes lost revenue from a spring gala.