Friday, May 6

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The memory of Jacques d'Amboise is honored in New York.

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The northwest corner of West 64th Street and Columbus Avenue in front of New York's Lincoln Center now displays the name Jacques d'Amboise Place. The ceremony took place adjacent to New York City Ballet where Mr. d'Amboise called home for 35 years.

 

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Party pix from New York City Ballet's gala.

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Everything from Jerome Robbins' whimsical Circus Polka and George Balanchine's lively Scherzo à la Russe were on the program, and everyone from Michael Bloomberg, Mayor Eric Adams and Senator Chuck Schumer to Lili Buffett, Alessia Fendi, Jill Kargman, Rosie Perez and Zac Posen were in attendance.

 

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A review of the Royal Ballet by Debra Craine in The Times.

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If you were going to stage yet another performance of Swan Lake but wanted it to be a bit special, this was certainly a remarkable way to do it. For the Royal Ballet’s fundraising gala in support of the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal, the director, Kevin O’Hare, decided on a unique approach — have four of his top ballerinas share the iconic role of Odette-Odile, usually a job for just one, and add in four princes to boot.

 

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A review of Boston Ballet by Jeffrey Gantz in The Boston Globe.

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As he did in his neoclassical “Creatures of Egmont” and “Fifth Symphony of Jean Sibelius,” Elo fills the stage with canon and counterpoint, symmetry and asymmetry, in imaginative groupings, while paying welcome attention to port de bras. It’s all gracious and generous — at times too generous; there’s nothing unworthy of Balanchine here, but Balanchine would have edited. Less is more in a brief, jittery solo for Lam, and in a pas de deux set to the chorale-like opening aria from Bach’s Cantata No. 54, where Tapp and Khozashvili are, by turns, genteel and spiky in a kind of mating dance.