Fleurfairy Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 On 4/30/2022 at 2:01 PM, ABT Fan said: Was hoping Trenary would get it - I think she'd be amazing and as we know she's hardly cast in anything for some reason. Management does love to play favorites. Link to comment
DPell Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 Patrick Frenette is debuting Benno this season. I'm glad he's getting roles like this following his Hilarion in the fall. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CdEj984pfno/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Link to comment
nanushka Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 3 minutes ago, DPell said: Patrick Frenette is debuting Benno this season. I'm glad he's getting roles like this following his Hilarion in the fall. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CdEj984pfno/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link That’s great! I’m glad to see that too. He’s shown real promise in recent years. Link to comment
ABT Fan Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 13 hours ago, DPell said: Patrick Frenette is debuting Benno this season. I'm glad he's getting roles like this following his Hilarion in the fall. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CdEj984pfno/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link This is great news! Link to comment
FauxPas Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 Patrick Frenette, Cameron McCune, Jonathan Klein and Luigi Crispino are overdue for soloist opportunities. Link to comment
angelica Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 I saw clips on Brandt's Instagram in which Crispino was partnering Brandt in her coaching sessions and he looked terrific! Definitely would love to see him promoted. Link to comment
Drew Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 Trenary posted on her instagram that she has been working with Lynn Seymour on Juliet. That caught my attention --especially after reading about Trenary's Giselle. Wish I could see that debut... Link to comment
MoMo Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 On 5/13/2022 at 7:52 AM, FauxPas said: Patrick Frenette, Cameron McCune, Jonathan Klein and Luigi Crispino are overdue for soloist opportunities. With the female corps ladies, I would include Betsy McBride, Erica Lall, Zimmi C. , amongst others. Link to comment
DPell Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 On 5/13/2022 at 10:52 AM, FauxPas said: Patrick Frenette, Cameron McCune, Jonathan Klein and Luigi Crispino are overdue for soloist opportunities. 13 hours ago, MoMo said: With the female corps ladies, I would include Betsy McBride, Erica Lall, Zimmi C. , amongst others. I’d imagine we’ll see some of these dancers being promoted this year. There are eight soloists at the moment. Is the number of soloists normally low? Link to comment
aurora Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 17 minutes ago, DPell said: I’d imagine we’ll see some of these dancers being promoted this year. There are eight soloists at the moment. Is the number of soloists normally low? There are always less soloists than any other group, but 4 men/4 women is unusually low. Moreover while there were just a lot of promotions to principal, none of the current crop of soloists seem likely to become principals with the notable exception of Hurlin who I would expect to be promoted quite soon. Fang, Paris and Hoven were all quite late career promotions, seemingly in recognition of the years of solid work at the soloist level they'd put in. Zhurbin does almost exclusively character roles. I don't see any of them moving up further and I wouldn't be surprised to see some retirements soon. Gorak had huge potential, but never realized it (and never seemingly worked on his ability as a partner) and hardly ever seems to be cast these days. Williams and Shayer (relatively newly promoted to soloist) are the relative wildcards. I'd also expect some promotions to the Soloist level at the end of the Met season--but I don't know if they will hold off because of the new director. Link to comment
MoMo Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 I agree with your thoughts. I do think they will promote, as they had promotions in 2020 during the pandemic, even though the dancers weren’t performing. It will be Kevin’s last hurrah. Link to comment
ABT Fan Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 38 minutes ago, MoMo said: I agree with your thoughts. I do think they will promote, as they had promotions in 2020 during the pandemic, even though the dancers weren’t performing. It will be Kevin’s last hurrah. I’ll expect Hurlin to be promoted after the Met season. She’s debuting Kitri now on tour and O/O at the Met - unless something catastrophic happens, I think it would look odd if she’s not promoted after that. And, I think McKenzie would want to promote her before he leaves - an up and comer, and arguably next future star, who trained at the JKO school since she was little and came up through the ranks. It would look good for him. She’s destined to become a principal regardless from what I’ve seen. Link to comment
aurora Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 1 hour ago, MoMo said: I agree with your thoughts. I do think they will promote, as they had promotions in 2020 during the pandemic, even though the dancers weren’t performing. It will be Kevin’s last hurrah. Yes, but the new director might expect to have some say in that, as it will have an impact on how the company looks going forward. I do, however, agree with ABT Fan that Hurlin will be promoted this season, for all the same reasons (and hope we're right!). Link to comment
abatt Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 I was watching TV yesterday (PBS) and an advertisement for ABT's summer season came on before the program. Lots of snippets of dancers performing in costume, but Kevin McKenzie kept popping up in the commercial, coaching or wandering around. I've seen many ads for ballet and opera performances on TV, but I've never seen the director of the company insert himself into the commercial. I laughed initially, but then felt it was pretty sad that McKenzie is so desperate for attention. Link to comment
aurora Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 56 minutes ago, abatt said: I was watching TV yesterday (PBS) and an advertisement for ABT's summer season came on before the program. Lots of snippets of dancers performing in costume, but Kevin McKenzie kept popping up in the commercial, coaching or wandering around. I've seen many ads for ballet and opera performances on TV, but I've never seen the director of the company insert himself into the commercial. I laughed initially, but then felt it was pretty sad that McKenzie is so desperate for attention. It is his final season as director and they are making a big deal of it. He was the director, after all, for 30 years. And for all the complaining about him on here, he took on a company that was on the verge of collapse and has it on healthy footing. Your reading of this is very particular. Link to comment
DPell Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 Patrick Frenette is also debuting Mithridates in Of Love and Rage this season. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CdegPljsKAl/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Link to comment
ABT Fan Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 (edited) Sooooo….potential big news. Trenary has just posted clips of herself rehearsing SL with Irina on her IG. No mention of any casting dates and I see nothing on ABT’s site. Do understudies usually get 1:1 time with Irina? I’d think not as she’s stretched pretty thin. SL is a month out and there are no TBA’s. Perhaps someone is already injured and they’re getting her ready. Hmmmm…. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cd_tz6NJ1hC/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Edited May 25, 2022 by ABT Fan Typo Link to comment
Drew Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 I hope no-one is injured...but I somehow hope at the same time that Trenary gets to make her Swan Lake debut.... Link to comment
vipa Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 I'd go see Trenary in SL for sure. For my money she is one of ABT's most interesting dancers. I'd be interested in seeing her choices. Link to comment
abatt Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 4 hours ago, ABT Fan said: Sooooo….potential big news. Trenary has just posted clips of herself rehearsing SL with Irina on her IG. No mention of any casting dates and I see nothing on ABT’s site. Do understudies usually get 1:1 time with Irina? I’d think not as she’s stretched pretty thin. SL is a month out and there are no TBA’s. Perhaps someone is already injured and they’re getting her ready. Hmmmm…. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cd_tz6NJ1hC/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Isn't Irina an "off the books" coach not affiliated w. ABT? Maybe Trenary is going the same route as Brandt - if I learn it independently I might get the role sometime. Link to comment
aurora Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 13 minutes ago, abatt said: Isn't Irina an "off the books" coach not affiliated w. ABT? Maybe Trenary is going the same route as Brandt - if I learn it independently I might get the role sometime. Irina Koplakova not Dvorovenko Link to comment
canbelto Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 Skylar Brandt said in an interview with Megan Fairchild that Kevin McKenzie gives you a heads up to be ready for a certain role, with the high likelihood that you'll get a performance because of either an injury or other reasons. You can either learn the role on your own volition, or you can actually wait to be cast. Link to comment
balletlover08 Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 5 hours ago, ABT Fan said: Sooooo….potential big news. Trenary has just posted clips of herself rehearsing SL with Irina on her IG. No mention of any casting dates and I see nothing on ABT’s site. Do understudies usually get 1:1 time with Irina? I’d think not as she’s stretched pretty thin. SL is a month out and there are no TBA’s. Perhaps someone is already injured and they’re getting her ready. Hmmmm…. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cd_tz6NJ1hC/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= She posted snippets of dryad queen in the same leotard/tutu which we know she has performances for. I think we may see her bc of an injury or some other reason, Link to comment
balletlover08 Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 On 5/24/2022 at 2:26 PM, DPell said: Patrick Frenette is also debuting Mithridates in Of Love and Rage this season. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CdegPljsKAl/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= I just saw Chloe Misseldine is debuting as Queen of Dionysus in Of love and Rage this season also (randomly checked her page on ABT lol). Link to comment
ABT Fan Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 10 hours ago, canbelto said: Skylar Brandt said in an interview with Megan Fairchild that Kevin McKenzie gives you a heads up to be ready for a certain role, with the high likelihood that you'll get a performance because of either an injury or other reasons. You can either learn the role on your own volition, or you can actually wait to be cast. Yes, but to have a coaching session with Irina means just more than a heads up as I highly doubt Irina has time for extra coaching. We’ll just have to wait and see. Maybe McKenzie paid attention to what recently happened at NYCB with all of the injuries and illnesses wrecking havoc on casting and is prepping Trenary now. Though she certainly deserves her own show in her own right…. Link to comment
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