By: Marina
My little guest was transfixed by the waltz of the flowers as well. Her little hands kept fluttering involuntarily to the music. How could anyone not be moved by Tiler Peck’s impulsive, bubbling-brook...
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Brava, Sarah’s mom! A friend complains that the story ballets presented by Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle are ruined for her by the adults in the audience talking their way through them for the...
View ArticleBy: Barbara Palfy
Perhaps this season IS the time to revisit Balanchine’s Nuts after a three-decade hiatus. The experience would be enhanced, as you point out, if I can find a “newbie.” Other productions of the ballet...
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One of the great pleasures of accumulating grandchildren is taking them to their first live performances. Ours have been rapt by productions of The Nutcracker, Balanchine’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and...
View ArticleBy: Julia Prospero
I had not been so fortunate, 36 years ago. Especially for a hardcore balletomane. It was an experience carved in my mind, fortunately not in my daughter’s. My daughter was invited to her first...
View ArticleBy: DariaW
You get very lush photos, I must say, and they seem to me to be of a superior quality to what I remember from my time seeing dance in NYC some 30 yrs. ago. A lot of dance companies were pretty poor...
View ArticleBy: Tobi Tobias
“Accumulating grandcildren.” I’m charmed by the way you put it. I have 4. Thank you for your own story about the one who cried when the live experience couldn’t be repeated. A boy after my own heart!...
View ArticleBy: Tobi Tobias
Paul Kolnik takes almost all of the in-performance photos of the New York City Ballet. He is a fine dance photographer. You might also have a look at Martha Swope’s City Ballet photos of earlier years;...
View ArticleBy: Martha Ullman West
Should Daria W. be in the neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, I saw a performance of Balanchine’s Nutcracker by Oregon Ballet Theatre last night that knocked my socks off. The dancers, all of them, were...
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Well, much as I love great stagecraft, while Pacific Northwest Ballet's mounting of <em>The Nutcracker</em> has wonderful sets, by Maurice Sendak, for me, this is not enough to save the...
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