dirac Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 New York City Ballet announces its Saratoga schedule. Quote Also featured are two evenings dedicated to works by contemporary choreographers including a new work by Amy Hall Garner, which is set to hold its world premiere as part of NYCB’s 2024 spring season; “Gustave le Gray No. 1,” a SPAC debut choreographed by Pam Tanowitz and set to the music of Caroline Shaw; Ulysses Dove’s dynamically charged abstract work “Red Angels,” set to a riveting score for electric violin; and Justin Peck’s sneaker ballet “The Times are Racing,” heralded by audiences and critics alike since its premiere in 2017. Related. Quote Balanchine's works will also be the stars of two other evenings. Selections from “Swan Lake”; “Stars and Stripes”; “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” commissioned by SPAC in 1975; and a 50th anniversary celebration of “Coppelia” will be performed July 12 and 13. “Coppelia,” which had its world premiere in 1974 at SPAC, will feature local youth. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 A review of English National Ballet by Sarah Crompton in The Observer. Quote Mary Skeaping’s 1971 production of this great Romantic ballet for English National Ballet, however, has the merit of reminding us just why, in 1841, it too was full of the shock of the new. A story about the exploitation of the lower classes; an eerie supernatural second act; a heroine dancing on pointe shoes, light as a feather, seeming to materialise out of the air; a ballerina taking centre stage for the first time. Link to comment
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