Monday, July 24

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An appraisal of American Ballet Theatre's summer season by Gia Kourlas in the "Critic's Notebook" of The New York Times.

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But Roxander’s performances — and not just his — were hopeful signs for the future of Ballet Theater and for the leadership of Susan Jaffe, the new artistic director, whose casting of the younger generation has not been boring. It included the surprise of Fangqi Li, a corps de ballet member, as an icy new Myrta in “Giselle”; she held the stage with a bracing intensity. The willowy soloist Chloe Misseldine, spooky, alienlike and ever-improving as another new Myrta — her attitude position and leaps are heavenly — was also stunning in the pas de trois in “Swan Lake.”