California Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 NYCB has announced their 2021-2022 season at the Koch Theater! https://www.nycballet.com/about-us/for-the-press/new-york-city-ballet-will-not-perform-at-the-david-h-koch-theater-during-the-winter-and-spring-of-2021/ 2021-22 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS The 2021-22 Season will also mark NYCB’s first season fully planned by the Company’s new artistic leadership team, with programming curated by Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan working in collaboration with Artistic Director Jonathan Stafford and Resident Choreographer and Artistic Advisor Justin Peck. In announcing the programming for the 2021-22 Season, Whelan said, "While the ongoing shutdown continues to be challenging for everyone, it has been very gratifying to look to the future and make plans to launch this first full season that Jon, Justin and I have programmed. It is certain to be a very exciting and moving year of performances by our amazing company of artists."Six World Premiere Ballets Highlights of the 2021-22 season will include six world premiere ballets, including new works by Sidra Bell and Andrea Miller during the 2021 Fall Season, new works by Justin Peck and Jamar Roberts during the 2022 Winter Season, and new works by Silas Farley and Pam Tanowitz during the 2022 Spring Season. "We are honored to present the most diverse group of choreographers who have ever been commissioned by NYCB during a single season," said Whelan. "I know that these artists will inspire and energize everyone here as we continue our unparalleled commitment to expanding the ballet repertory, as well as continuing our work to make the Company a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive institution."September 21, 2021 – Opening Night Performance New York City Ballet’s 2021-22 Season at Lincoln Center will open on Tuesday, September 21, with a special celebration of the Company’s return to the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. "This opening night performance at our home theater after more than a year away from its stage will be an unforgettable evening for both the Company and our audiences," said Whelan. Programming for this one-time-only performance will be announced at a later date.Fall Fashion Gala – Thursday, September 30 – Bell and Miller World Premieres The Company’s annual Fall Fashion Gala will take place on Thursday, September 30 featuring the World Premiere ballets by Sidra Bell and Andrea Miller, both of whom are making their first-ever works for the stage at NYCB. The fashion designers who will collaborate with Bell and Miller will be announced at a later date.Winter Season World Premieres by Justin Peck and Jamar Roberts For the 2022 Winter Season, NYCB Resident Choreographer and Artistic Advisor Justin Peck will create a new work that will premiere on Thursday, January 27 as part of the Company’s annual New Combinations Evening, on a program that will also include Merce Cunningham’s Summerspace. The Winter Season will also include a new ballet by Jamar Roberts set to music by Kyle Preston, which was originally announced for the 2020 Spring Season, and will now premiere on Thursday, February 3. In 2019 Roberts was named the Resident Choreographer of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, where he joined as a dancer in 2002.World Premiere by Silas Farley for the 50th Anniversary of NYCB’s 1972 Stravinsky Festival Highlighting the 2022 Spring Season will be a two-week celebration of the 50th Anniversary of NYCB’s legendary 1972 Stravinsky Festival, from Tuesday, May 3 through Sunday, May 15. The celebration will feature ballets to Stravinsky’s music by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Justin Peck, as well as two orchestral works performed by the 62-piece New York City Ballet Orchestra which is led by NYCB Music Director Andrew Litton. The anniversary celebration will also include a World Premiere ballet created in tribute to Stravinsky and Balanchine’s landmark works by former NYCB dancer Silas Farley, who recently retired from dancing to pursue other educational and artistic opportunities. The score for the new ballet will be created by composer and writer David K. Israel and based on a 1946 musical exchange between Balanchine and Stravinsky, in which Balanchine wrote an acrostic poem in Russian as a gift for Stravinsky’s 65th birthday and set it to a simple melody. Stravinsky then harmonized the melody as a gesture of gratitude for Balanchine. The new Farley ballet will premiere on Thursday, May 5 as part of the Company’s annual Spring Gala performance.Spring Season Premieres by Pam Tanowitz and Collaboration with Dance Theatre of Harlem The 2022 Spring Season will also feature the World Premiere of a new work by choreographer Pam Tanowitz set to composer Ted Hearne’s Law of Mosaics for string ensemble, which was originally scheduled to premiere during the 2020 Spring Season, and will now premiere on Friday, April 22. The same performance will also include the NYCB Premiere of Pam Tanowitz’s Gustave Le Gray No. 1, a quartet that was originally created in 2019 for "Ballet Across America" at the Kennedy Center and featured dancers from Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) and Miami City Ballet. For the NYCB premiere of Gustave Le Gray No. 1, which is set to music by Caroline Shaw performed by an on-stage pianist, the work will be performed by two dancers from NYCB and two guest dancers from DTH, marking the first time in 20 years that the two companies have performed together at Lincoln Center.Ask la Cour, Maria Kowroski, Gonzalo Garcia – Farewell Performances The 2021-22 Season will also feature Farewell Performances for three of the Company’s long-time Principal Dancers – Ask la Cour on Saturday, October 9, 2021; Maria Kowroski, on Sunday, October 17, 2021; and Gonzalo Garcia on Sunday, February 27, 2022. "It is always bittersweet for both the Company and our audiences to say goodbye to beloved dancers, but we look forward to celebrating Maria, Ask, and Gonzalo’s incredible careers at these three special performances," said Stafford.Chun Wai Chan Joins NYCB As Soloist Chun Wai Chan, formerly a Principal Dancer with the Houston Ballet, will join NYCB as a Soloist next year. "We are very happy to announce that Chun Wai Chan will join New York City Ballet as a Soloist," said Stafford and Whelan. "We first talked to him in January about becoming a member of NYCB for the start of the 2020 Fall Season, but had to postpone those plans when that season was cancelled. Chun Wai will be a wonderful addition to our roster of dancers and we look forward to working with him when we return to rehearsals for the 2021-22 season." Born in Guangdong, China, Chan trained at the Guangzhou Art School from 2004 to 2010. In 2010 Chan was a finalist at the Prix de Lausanne ballet competition which earned him a full scholarship to study with Houston Ballet’s second company, Houston Ballet II. In 2012 Chan joined Houston Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet and he was promoted to Principal in 2017. His repertory with Houston Ballet included leading roles in ballets by Stanton Welch, Ben Stevenson, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, John Cranko, William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Edwaard Liang, Wayne McGregor, Trey McIntyre, and Justin Peck, among others. Chan was also featured in Dance Magazine’s "25 to Watch" in 2016 and Pointe Magazine’s "Standouts of 2017." He has also appeared at the Nijinsky Gala XLI in Hamburg, Germany (2015), New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival (2015), and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (2018). Chan was also a Guest Principal with Hong Kong Ballet in 2018 and 2019. ADDITIONAL 2021-22 SEASON PROGRAMMING Complete programming details for the 2021-22 Season will be announced at a later date, in addition to the new works, repertory highlights will include: 2021 Fall Season – Tuesday, September 21 through Sunday, October 17 George Balanchine’s Serenade, Agon, Symphony in C, Chaconne, Western Symphony, and Slaughter on Tenth Avenue Jerome Robbins’ Glass Pieces and Opus 19/The Dreamer Alexei Ratmansky’s Namouna, A Grand Divertissement Christopher Wheeldon’s Mercurial Manoeuvres and After the Rain (pas de deux) Justin Peck’s Rotunda George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® – Friday, November 26 through Sunday, January 22022 Winter Season – Tuesday, January 18 through Sunday, February 27 George Balanchine’s Diamonds, The Four Temperaments, Mozartiana, La Valse, Pavane, and Prodigal Son, Walpurgisnacht Ballet, and The Unanswered Question from Ivesiana Jerome Robbins’ Moves and Andantino Pam Tanowitz’s Bartók Ballet Peter Martins’ Swan Lake Christopher Wheeldon’s DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse 2022 Spring Season – Tuesday, April 19 through Sunday, May 29 George Balanchine’s Agon, Apollo, Orpheus, Firebird, Symphony in Three Movements, Rubies, Duo Concertant, Divertimento from 'Le Baiser de la Fée,' Le Tombeau de Couperin, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Divertimento No 15, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream Jerome Robbins’ The Cage, Circus Polka, Afternoon of a Faun, and Piano Pieces Justin Peck’s Pulcinella Variations and Scherzo Fantastique TICKET SALES Subscription packages for the 2021-22 season will go on sale in mid-November. Single tickets for George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® and repertory performances for the 2021-22 Season will go on sale next year, date to be announced. Subscription packages and single tickets will be available online at nycballet.com or by phone at 212-496-0600. All performances will take place at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, which is located at West 63rd Street and Columbus Avenue. Programming is subject to change. FAREWELL PERFORMANCES ASK LA COUR – Saturday, October 9 at 8pm Ask la Cour, who joined NYCB in 2002, will give his farewell performance with the Company on Saturday, October 9 at 8pm dancing Balanchine’s Monumentum pro Gesualdo and Movements for Piano and Orchestra, and Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain (pas de deux). Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, la Cour began his dance training at the age of nine at the Royal Danish Ballet School. He joined the Royal Danish Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2000, where he performed featured roles in ballets by August Bournonville, John Cranko, Peter Martins, John Neumeier, Alexei Ratmansky, and Lila York. In the fall of 2002 la Cour joined New York City Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet. He was promoted to the rank of Soloist in the spring of 2005 and was named a Principal Dancer in the winter of 2013. Since joining NYCB, la Cour has danced an extensive repertory of ballets by NYCB’s co-founding choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, and has also performed leading roles in works by Robert Binet, August Bournonville, Boris Eifman, Jorma Elo, Lauren Lovette, Peter Martins, Benjamin Millepied, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, Susan Stroman, Richard Tanner, and Christopher Wheeldon. In January 2020, la Cour was named the artistic director of the Frank Ohman School of Ballet and New York Dance Theatre, which is based in Commack, New York and was founded in 1979 by former NYCB soloist Frank Ohman who passed away in 2019. MARIA KOWROSKI – Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 3pm Maria Kowroski, who has danced with New York City Ballet for more than 25 years, will give her farewell performance with the Company on Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 3pm. The program for the performance will be announced at a later date. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Kowroski began her ballet training at age seven with the School of Grand Rapids Ballet. She entered the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of NYCB, in the fall of 1992. Kowroski became an apprentice with NYCB in the summer of 1994 and was invited to join the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in January of 1995. In the spring of 1997, she was promoted to the rank of Soloist and in the spring of 1999, Kowroski was promoted to Principal Dancer. During her extraordinary career with NYCB, Kowroski has performed leading roles in a vast range of works by NYCB’s co-founding choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, and is the only current dancer with NYCB to have worked directly with Robbins. Kowroski has also originated featured roles in works by numerous choreographers including Mauro Bigonzetti, Boris Eifman, Jorma Elo, Eliot Feld, Douglas Lee, Edwaard Liang, Peter Martins, Wayne McGregor, Benjamin Millepied, Matthew Neenan, Justin Peck, Susan Stroman, Helgi Tomasson, and Christopher Wheeldon, among others. Kowroski has performed as a guest artist with the Mariinsky Ballet in productions of Swan Lake, Jewels, Prodigal Son, and most recently Serenade and In the Night. She has performed in international galas and guested with several ballet companies around the world. She appeared in the production of Carmen at The Metropolitan Opera. She was also a recipient of the Princess Grace Award in 1994 and the statuette award in 2006.GONZALO GARCIA – Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 3pm Gonzalo Garcia, who joined NYCB as a Principal Dancer in 2007, will give his farewell performance with the Company on Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 3pm. The program for the performance will be announced at a later date. Born in Zaragoza, Spain, Garcia began studying ballet at the age of eight at Maria Avila’s school. In 1995, he attended the summer session at San Francisco Ballet School and participated in the Prix de Lausanne, becoming the youngest dancer to receive a gold medal. He then returned to the San Francisco Ballet School to resume his studies and joined San Francisco Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in March 1998. He was promoted to Soloist in 2000, and became a Principal Dancer in 2002. His repertory with SFB included leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, William Forsythe, Mark Morris, Yuri Possokhov, Helgi Tomasson, and Christopher Wheeldon. Garcia made his first appearance with NYCB as a guest artist in 2004 when he was invited to perform Balanchine’s Ballo della Regina as part of the Company’s Balanchine Centennial Celebration.Since joining NYCB in the fall of 2007, Garcia has performed numerous featured roles in ballets by Balanchine, Robbins, and many other choreographers, including August Bournonville, Benjamin Millepied, and Twyla Tharp. Garcia has also created featured roles in five ballets by NYCB Resident Choreographer Justin Peck, as well as works by Mauro Bigonzetti, Peter Martins, Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky, and Christopher Wheeldon, among others. In 2018 Garcia was named to the permanent faculty of the School of American Ballet. CHOREOGRAPHERS FOR WORLD PREMIERE BALLETS SIDRA BELL – World Premiere – September 30, 2021 (Fall Fashion Gala) Sidra Bell is the founder of Sidra Bell Dance New York and a choreographer and educator who is currently a Master Lecturer at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, an Adjunct Professor at Marymount Manhattan College, a Lecturer at SUNY Purchase, and an Adjunct Professor at Ball State University in Indiana. She has been an artist in residence at Harvard University, and an Adjunct Professor at Georgian Court University and Barnard College. Bell received a BA in History from Yale University and an MFA in Choreography from Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. She is the founder and creative director of the award-winning MODULE Laboratory, a New York City-based immersive platform for movement and theater artists. Bell has won several awards, notably a First Prize for Choreography at the Solo Tanz Theater Festival in Stuttgart, Germany and a National Dance Project Production Award from the New England Foundation for the Arts. Her work has been seen throughout the United States and in Denmark, France, Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey, Slovenia, Sweden, Germany, China, Canada, Aruba, Korea, Brazil, and Greece. Bell has created over 100 works notably for BODYTRAFFIC, Ailey II, The Juilliard School, Whim W'Him, Boston Conservatory at Berklee College, River North Dance Chicago, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Sacramento Ballet, Ballet Austin, Springboard Danse Montréal, and Alonzo King's LINES Ballet School, among others. ANDREA MILLER – World Premiere – September 30, 2021 (Fall Fashion Gala) Andrea Miller is the Artistic Director, Choreographer, and Founder of Brooklyn-based company GALLIM. She creates movement-based works for stage, film, museums, and gallery spaces, and is currently working on a series of dance films and site-specific works. Her highly acclaimed dances are performed by GALLIM as well as other leading dance companies around the world. Recent commissions include New York City Ballet, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Martha Graham Dance Company, A.I.M., Ballet Hispánico, Ailey II, Rambert 2, and The Juilliard School, as well as Netherlands Dance Theater 2, Bern Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Grace Farms, and Noord Nederlands Dans. From 2017–2018, Miller became the first choreographer to hold the distinction of being named Artist-in-Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has been recognized with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Sadler’s Wells, New York City Center, and the Princess Grace Foundation. In October 2018, she was featured in Forbes as a female entrepreneur and leader in the dance world.Film credits include The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (2018), directed by Xavier Dolan; In This Life (2018) starring former NYCB Principal Dancer Robbie Fairchild; Sara (2020) starring NYCB Principal Dancer Sara Mearns and directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost; Notes on Gathering (2020) directed by Miller and Ben Stamper; Orilla (2020) directed by Miller and Ben Stamper; and Shaping Absence (2020) directed by Miller and Ben Stamper. Currently an adjunct professor at Marymount Manhattan College, Miller has also served as an adjunct professor at Barnard College, and has been invited to teach across the U.S., recently at Harvard University, The Juilliard School, New York University, Wesleyan University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, among others.JUSTIN PECK – World Premiere – January 27, 2022 Justin Peck is the Resident Choreographer and Artistic Advisor of New York City Ballet. He has worked with a range of artistic collaborators including composers Dan Deacon, Bryce Dessner, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Sufjan Stevens; visual artists John Baldessari, Jules de Balincourt, Marcel Dzama, Shepard Fairey, Karl Jensen, Stephen Powers, and Sterling Ruby; and fashion designers Tsumori Chisato, Prabal Gurung, Mary Katrantzou, Humberto Leon, and Dries Van Noten. He has created more than 40 works for a range of institutions including New York City Ballet, the Paris Opéra Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Houston Ballet, and L.A. Dance Project, and his works have also been performed by Dutch National Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, and Pennsylvania Ballet, among other companies. A native of San Diego, California and a dancer with New York City Ballet from 2007 to 2019, Peck participated in the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of NYCB, in 2009, and received NYCI’s first year-long choreographic residency in 2011. Peck was named NYCB’s Resident Choreographer, the second in the Company’s history, in July 2014. Peck was the subject of the 2014 documentary Ballet 422, which followed him for two months as he created NYCB’s 422nd original ballet, Paz de la Jolla. In 2015, his ballet Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes won the Bessie Award for Outstanding Production. Peck was the Tony Award–winning choreographer of the 2018 Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, and he is the choreographer of the upcoming film adaptation of West Side Story, directed by Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg.JAMAR ROBERTS – World Premiere – February 3, 2022 Jamar Roberts is the Resident Choreographer of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT). A dancer with the company since 2002, Roberts’ first full-length work for the company, Members Don’t Get Weary, premiered at New York City Center in December of 2016 to critical acclaim. In December of 2019 he premiered his next work entitled Ode. Roberts has set his work entitled Gemeos on Ailey II. Roberts is a graduate of the New World School of the Arts and The Ailey School and has danced for AAADT, Ailey II, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. He won the 2016 Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer and has performed as a guest artist with The Royal Ballet in London and made multiple television performance appearances. He has been commissioned by the Juilliard School Dance Division for both live and virtual works, the March on Washington Film Festival to create a dance on film tribute to the honorable John Lewis, New York City Center’s Fall For Dance Festival, and as a Works and Process Virtual Commissioned artist, where he created the acclaimed short work on film entitled Cooped.PAM TANOWITZ – World Premiere – April 22, 2022 Pam Tanowitz, New York-based choreographer and founder of Pam Tanowitz Dance, is known for her unflinchingly post-modern treatment of the classical dance vocabulary. Tanowitz was recently named the first-ever Choreographer in Residence at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. In 2019, she received the Herb Alpert Award in Dance. Other awards include Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Cage Cunningham Fellowship (2017), City Center Choreography Fellowship (2016), Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University Fellowship (2016), Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University (2013), Guggenheim Fellowship (2011), and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artist Award (2010). She received Bessie Awards in 2009 & 2016. In addition to Bartók Ballet (2019) created for NYCB, Tanowitz’s recent works include commissions from American Ballet Theatre, The Royal Ballet, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, the Kennedy Center’s “Ballet Across America,” Martha Graham Dance Company, The Joyce Theater, Bard Summerscape Festival, Vail International Dance Festival, and New York Live Arts, among numerous others. She has also created or set work for City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, The Juilliard School, Ballet Austin, New York Theater Ballet, and Saint Louis Ballet; and has been a guest choreographer at Barnard College and Princeton University. Originally from New Rochelle, New York, Tanowitz holds degrees from The Ohio State University and Sarah Lawrence College, and is currently a visiting guest artist at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.SILAS FARLEY – World Premiere – May 5, 2022 (Spring Gala) Silas Farley is a choreographer and an Armstrong Visiting Artist-in-Residence in Ballet at Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts. Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, Farley danced with New York City Ballet from 2012-2020, and has been a choreographer since age 11. Farley has created ballets for MetLiveArts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum’s Virtual Commissions initiative, the School of American Ballet (SAB), the New York Choreographic Institute, the Columbia Ballet Collaborative, and the Practicing Silence workshop at Grace Farms Foundation. He has been commissioned by The Washington Ballet to create a work scheduled to premiere in June 2021. Farley is a guest teacher at SAB and has also guest taught internationally. He served as the 2018-19 Artist in Residence for Ballet Hartford and was an inaugural Jerome Robbins Dance Division Fellow at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, where his research earned him Lincoln Center’s 2015 Martin E. Segal Award. He has lectured on ballet extensively and is the host of the "Hear the Dance" episodes of NYCB’s City Ballet The Podcast. Since the summer of 2019, Farley has served on the Board of Directors of The George Balanchine Foundation. 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JuliaJ Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 (edited) Jesus they've essentially DOUBLED prices for subscription tickets. I know they need to make back lost revenue but are enough people going to shell out this much?? Also this website redesign is not user-friendly. Edited November 18, 2020 by JuliaJ Link to comment
California Posted November 18, 2020 Author Share Posted November 18, 2020 7 minutes ago, JuliaJ said: Jesus they've essentially DOUBLED prices for subscription tickets. I know they need to make back lost revenue but are enough people going to shell out this much?? Also this website redesign is not user-friendly. Some quick arithmetic: Orchestra A/Front Ring A = $170/ticket Orchestra B/Second Ring A = $130 A little more than in the past, but not that much. They say nothing about safety that I see - must assume the vaccines will be working by fall 2021. Link to comment
JuliaJ Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 1 minute ago, California said: Some quick arithmetic: Orchestra A/Front Ring A = $170/ticket Orchestra B/Second Ring A = $130 A little more than in the past, but not that much. They say nothing about safety that I see - must assume the vaccines will be working by fall 2021. Ohh thank you for the correction. When you select two subscription tickets for a particular show, the window shows the price of both combined, not each one. Not as clear as it could be . Sorry for alarming anyone. Link to comment
cobweb Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 On 11/18/2020 at 5:52 PM, JuliaJ said: Also this website redesign is not user-friendly. I also find the redesign unattractive and unengaging. The home page is all silhouetted sculptural bodies. No movement, no ballet. Nothing to draw the dance lover in. Link to comment
vipa Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 1 hour ago, cobweb said: I also find the redesign unattractive and unengaging. The home page is all silhouetted sculptural bodies. No movement, no ballet. Nothing to draw the dance lover in. I agree about the design, and as julaij said it isn't particularly user friendly. I wonder who their target audience is? I have to say, I'm not impressed with the planned programing, but perhaps it's too soon to make a judgement about the direction the new leadership is taking. Link to comment
JuliaJ Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 The ticket-purchasing system is actually very well designed (other than the part that shows you the prices), but the website is overall not as great for "browsing" as it used to be. The lack of a "calendar" section is particularly annoying. And the marketing photos look more like ads for an upscale gym or fashion brand than for a ballet company. Lots of great stuff on the new season but some of the programming is questionable. Did Bartok Ballet, Rotunda, and DGV really need to come back? Not too confident about all of the commissions from modern-dance choreographers. I did like Andrea Miller's piece for the digital season so that one sounds the most promising to me. Link to comment
California Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 I was relieved to see a lot of "comfort food" -- most notably the Stravinsky Festival I, II, III in May 2022, as well as several program of Balanchine/Robbins. Definitely worth some travelling to gorge on these masterpieces. But I'm seeing a lot of unimpressive experimental stuff on digital programs this fall and I'm not sure I want to see more of it when we can finally get back to live theater performances. At first it seemed odd to announce so far in advance, but the subscription renewals should help their cash flow and the specificity of their plans must be encouraging to dancers and donors. (I'm wondering when ABT will announce something -- does anybody believe they'll perform in Minneapolis and Chicago next April?) Link to comment
cobweb Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 11 hours ago, vipa said: I have to say, I'm not impressed with the planned programing, 50 minutes ago, JuliaJ said: but some of the programming is questionable. Did Bartok Ballet, Rotunda, and DGV really need to come back? Not too confident about all of the commissions from modern-dance choreographers. Agree... especially about Bartok Ballet. The new commission I'm most interested in seeing is from Silas Farley, at least I know that he knows and appreciates ballet. I haven't seen any of his work, though -- as anyone seen any of his choreography? Link to comment
sohalia Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 I am quite excited to see what Silas Farley can bring as a choreographer. Loved him as a dancer, and he's wonderful to listen to as the podcast host. Agreed with the above comments on some of the programming and the website redesign. Although now that they've changed the website, can we please update some of the dancers headshots? Bouder's and Gerrity's in particular are killing me and have been there for years. They deserve better. Link to comment
On Pointe Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 4 hours ago, sohalia said: Agreed with the above comments on some of the programming and the website redesign. Although now that they've changed the website, can we please update some of the dancers headshots? Bouder's and Gerrity's in particular are killing me and have been there for years. They deserve better. How about new headshots for everybody? Over the years I've been struck by their mediocre quality. New York is headshot central. NYCB can do better. Link to comment
Drew Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 On 11/20/2020 at 8:52 AM, JuliaJ said: The lack of a "calendar" section is particularly annoying. Is there no calendar section? I would think even for locals that’s a very useful function and the company knows it has an international audience....Let’s hope an easy-to-find calendar section is on its way.... Link to comment
Olga Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 I really hope they restore the Calendar. It’s the easiest way to keep track of things, particularly if you have a lot of tickets. Also it’s a quicker look at what is running when. Huge omission! Please fix! Link to comment
NinaFan Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 On 11/22/2020 at 10:33 PM, Drew said: Is there no calendar section? I would think even for locals that’s a very useful function and the company knows it has an international audience....Let’s hope an easy-to-find calendar section is on its way.... Wow, I just spent fifteen minutes looking for the calendar section, but as you say it's not there. I usually print copies to mark up. I haven't received my hard copy subscription booklet yet, but hopefully that will contain a calendar. Even so, it really needs to be on their website for everyone's reference. Link to comment
Olga Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 (edited) The calendars are back! They’re in the subscription section. Edited December 1, 2020 by Olga Link to comment
California Posted December 1, 2020 Author Share Posted December 1, 2020 50 minutes ago, Olga said: The calendars are back! They’re in the subscription section. Thank you! Here's the direct link: https://www.nycballet.com/season-and-tickets/ Link to comment
NinaFan Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 On 12/1/2020 at 2:50 PM, Olga said: The calendars are back! They’re in the subscription section. Thank goodness! I didn't realize they updated the website. I received my subscription package yesterday and was finally able to view the season calendars. I felt like a kid in a candy store. I'll have three of everything please! Link to comment
Balletwannabe Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Hi- maybe someone can answer this for me. How do I purchase a ticket to Maria Kowroski's farewell performance? It wasn't an option when I purchased a subscription. Will this only be available when single tickets go on sale? Or was it sold out already? Thank you. Link to comment
canbelto Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 3 hours ago, Balletwannabe said: Hi- maybe someone can answer this for me. How do I purchase a ticket to Maria Kowroski's farewell performance? It wasn't an option when I purchased a subscription. Will this only be available when single tickets go on sale? Or was it sold out already? Thank you. I think it will be a "special event" that only subscribers will get tickets to but they're holding off on selling. Link to comment
Balletwannabe Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Ok thank you hopefully I get an email about this. After I saw her in Mozartiana I was looking forward to seeing her more; I'd love to see her last performance. Link to comment
GB1216 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Speaking of subscriptions, curious to see what people have opted for (standard vs. flex, which programs?) I haven’t gotten a subscription in awhile but want to this year to support. My friend and I are likely going to buy one but back and forth on what to choose! Link to comment
BalanchineFan Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 On 12/20/2020 at 11:56 AM, GB1216 said: Speaking of subscriptions, curious to see what people have opted for (standard vs. flex, which programs?) I haven’t gotten a subscription in awhile but want to this year to support. My friend and I are likely going to buy one but back and forth on what to choose! I bought two of the weekend subscriptions. I wasn't too careful in picking because, as a subscriber, you have the right to exchange tickets for another performance. For me, that's easier than doing a flex subscription. Link to comment
BalanchineFan Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 On 12/20/2020 at 10:25 AM, canbelto said: I think it will be a "special event" that only subscribers will get tickets to but they're holding off on selling. I suspect subscribers will get the first option on buying tickets to "special events" but they eventually open up to the general public unless all the tickets are sold. Kowrowski's farewell will certainly be popular. As a non-subscriber I got tickets to Wendy Whelan's farewell in the 4th Ring. Link to comment
California Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 NYCB just announced via email that single tickets will go on sale July 19 for donors over $100 and subscribers for 2021-22, including the four retirement programs. The email doesn't say if they will have seat selection. Single tickets for the general public go on sale August 1. At least in previous years, seat selection was available at that point. https://www.nycballet.com/season-and-tickets/seasons Link to comment
vipa Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 2 hours ago, California said: NYCB just announced via email that single tickets will go on sale July 19 for donors over $100 and subscribers for 2021-22, including the four retirement programs. The email doesn't say if they will have seat selection. Single tickets for the general public go on sale August 1. At least in previous years, seat selection was available at that point. https://www.nycballet.com/season-and-tickets/seasons I saw this. I don't know why I'm so lethargic about it, but I didn't subscribe and I'm willing to take my chances and buy single tickets when they go on sale Aug. 1. Maybe part of me can't believe we're truly post pandemic. Link to comment
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