dirac Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Madison Ballet cancels its final Nutcracker. Quote MADSION, Wis. — The Madison Ballet’s final performance of The Nutcracker, which was scheduled for Sunday, has been canceled due to several breakthrough COVID-19 cases within the company, the ballet said. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 The Russian National Ballet cancels Stateside performances of "Swan Lake." Quote The 2022 U.S. tour has been canceled because of logistical complications surrounding the shipping of sets and costumes from Europe. There are no plans to reschedule the Mendel Center performance. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 BalletMet cancels its remaining Nutcrackers. Quote In an interview with The Dispatch, Executive Director Sue Porter said that decision to cancel was made late this morning after learning of breakthrough COVID-19 cases among several members in the cast. Vaccination is a prerequisite to perform in the production. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 Marina Harss looks back at 2021 in dance for DanceTabs. Quote In September, New York City Ballet returned to the stage for several weeks of mixed repertory. Opening night was an important moment, but the real highs came later in the season. Mira Nadon gave a bold, no-holds-barred performance of Monumentum Pro Gesualdo and Movements for Piano and Orchestra, among the best I’ve seen. She holds nothing back. Why is she still in the corps de ballet? A few weeks later, Lauren Lovette, who retired from the company at the end of the season, danced the pas de deux from Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain with such an inner glow that she managed to yank it back from the realm of cliché, where it has long resided. Tiler Peck and Roman Mejía gave a memorably suave, playful rendition of Jerome Robbins’ Other Dances. Mejía, an earthy, unpretentious dancer, was born to dance this Baryshnikov role. Sara Mearns sizzled as the woman in red in Alexei Ratmansky’s Russian Seasons, his first ballet for the company, and still one of his finest. Link to comment
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