dirac Posted October 20, 2024 Posted October 20, 2024 A review of New York City Ballet by Leigh Witchel for dancelog.nyc. Quote Mearns entered with a different, brighter mood for the pas de deux, taking her first variation wittily, like a restoration comedy heroine with her fan. Mearns always works in the moment; in her next variation one turn almost went awry. She just went on. Perhaps because Mearns has been fighting off injuries, by the third variation she showed signs of fatigue. Neither she nor Walker were crystalline in their leg work; gargouillades looked like leg scratching. Mearns is a different turner than Walker. She can turn around her axis; she doesn’t have to be right on it. Even off peak form, Mearns is still up to a very tough role, and she delivered a performance. And if this is not a natural part for Walker, he approached the challenge honestly and well. When Walker met her as she finished her final solo, she took his hand and just smiled. The worst was over. Carla Escoda reviews NYCB for Bachtrack. Quote Hard to fathom that a triple bill of female choreographers is a first for a world-class ballet company in these modern times but New York City Ballet has been chipping away at that glass ceiling ever so delicately that we never thought this day would come. Their closest brush with a female monopoly may have been 2021’s Fall Fashion Gala for which heavy-hitters Sidra Bell and Andrea Miller made two pieces that were never seen again. That program was bolstered by a Balanchine golden oldie – just in case two women choreographers on one program proved too avant-garde.
dirac Posted October 20, 2024 Author Posted October 20, 2024 A preview of Cleveland Ballet's Halloween programming. Quote If rehearsal is a hint of what’s to come, get tickets now to “Dracula” and “Masque of the Red Death” by Cleveland Ballet. It’s “can’t-miss” dance theater drama told through the elegance of classical ballet. Dancers wholly embody the characters as they move through the plot.
dirac Posted October 20, 2024 Author Posted October 20, 2024 An interview with Isaac Hernández by Marina Harss in The New York Times. Quote But this year, when the time came to renew his contract, Hernández felt it was time to move on, he said, “for both personal reasons as well as timing.” He and Rojo have split, he said, though they continue to co-parent Mateo from opposite coasts. And Hernández is ambitious: “I wanted to make my career my priority again. I have a sense of duty to my career, to my father, to my teachers, to really fulfill my potential.”
dirac Posted October 20, 2024 Author Posted October 20, 2024 A review of New York City Ballet's season by Robert Greskovic in The Wall Street Journal. Quote A quadruple bill by NYCB resident choreographer and artistic adviser Justin Peck marked the 10 year of his residency. Despite the bill’s variously felicitous groupings and inventive physicalities, there was a sameness to these dances that might have been mitigated by distributing them among the works of other choreographers.
dirac Posted October 20, 2024 Author Posted October 20, 2024 A television interview with Mikko Nissinen about Boston Ballet's new season. Quote Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen discusses what audiences at Fall Experience can expect to see.
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