dirac Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 A review of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo by Leigh Witchel for dancelog.nyc. Quote The Trocks are more than just a comedy company, they are a fortress of balletomania. The troupe’s stock in trade is not only what’s ridiculous and marvelous about ballet, but also what’s overlooked and in danger of being forgotten. The trick is to make those two jobs overlap. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 Philadelphia Ballet's Nutcracker performs well at the box office, all things considered. Quote The company was able to perform all 25 of its planned performances of the holiday favorite (one was filmed, without an audience), drawing nearly 35,000 ticket buyers to the Academy of Music. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 Christopher Wheeldon's "An American in Paris" will be performed live in Brisbane. Quote The musical has been several years in the making, already delayed by a pandemic that has devastated the arts industry over the past two years. For a dedicated cast and crew, it is a case of "the show must go on" — rehearsing inside a COVID-bubble at Queensland's Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane and submitting daily rapid antigen tests ahead of the opening performance tonight. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 The story behind a 1978 Arthur Elgort photograph of New York City Ballet's Nutcracker. Quote Arthur Elgort on Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, Nutcracker, New York City, 1978 “I started my career as a photographer at the Ballet, but there was just no money to be made here, so I turned to fashion photography.” “I was not assigned to document the performance, however, the famous choreographer and co-founder of the New York Ballet, George Balanchine, instructed me to do so and was standing by my side when this photo was taken. A magical moment.” Link to comment
dirac Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 An interview with Lourdes Lopez. Quote While Lopez works to embed MCB in the fabric of its home city, she is also busy inaugurating more firsts at the company. This February, MCB will stage Alexei Ratmansky’s “Swan Lake.” It is the first time the work will be performed in North America, the first time a production of “Swan Lake” will enter the MCB repertory, and the first time the company will dance in a full-length, three-act piece. “It’s pushing us artistically, but also administratively and financially…it’s just the greatest classical ballet, a jewel in the ballet crown,” Lopez said. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 New York City Ballet postpones the opening of its winter season. Quote City Ballet is just one of many performing arts organizations in New York and across the country that have had their winter programming and crucially important reopening plans upended by the rapidly spreading omicron variant. As of Wednesday, the daily average number of positive cases in the United States was around 585,000, almost three-and-a-half times the daily average two weeks earlier. Link to comment
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