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American Ballet Theater Steadies Itself for Its Next Act
When Mercutio finally collapsed and died at the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday night, it was more heartbreaking than usual. Of…
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Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet
George Balanchine likened choreography to gardening. “Dance collapses,” he once said. “It’s like a garden. A lot of roses bloom…
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It’s Story Time at Ballet Theater, With a Best Seller Twist
After tasting a dish containing rose petals, a young woman experiences an intense erotic awakening and runs off with a…
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American Ballet Theater Chief Resigns Suddenly
Janet Lorre, chief executive and executive director of the American Ballet Theater, has stepped down after 17 months, a week…
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Ballet Tech Kids Dance Lights Up the Joyce
the roots of Ballet Tech kids dance It took root in the subway rather than in the dance studio. It…
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Ballet Hispánico Debuts Two Works
In 17th-century Mexico, Sol Juana Inés de la Cruz was a nun, poet, intellectual, composer, and champion of women’s rights…
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Standing (and Dancing) Strong at New York City Ballet
If the spring season of New York City Ballet could be packed into a fragrance, it would be fresh, green,…
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‘Like He Was Going to Live Forever’: Making Jerome Robbins’s Last Ballet
Jerome Robbins was not feeling well in the winter of 1995. He created “West Side Story Suite,” a condensed version…
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Review: City Ballet Holds Steady as an Old Guard Meets the New
In recent years, New York City Ballet has paid a lot of attention to new voices, commissioning lesser-known choreographers and…
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Chris Wheeldon’s ‘Dangerous and Exciting’ Adventure at City Ballet
According to Mearns, physically, the move was unlike Wheeldon’s previous choreographic experiences, which were mostly “very upright, a little quirky,…
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