The Metropolitan Opera stage, awash in harsh lights and a roughly patterned backdrop, almost felt industrial when the curtain rose...
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Ilena Peng is a freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in Pointe Magazine, The DC Line and Washington City Paper, among others.
A ballet as famed and often performed as “Swan Lake” comes with both high expectations and the risk of losing...
The “Nutcracker” has a way of feeling magical year after year. But something new is always welcome—especially as the ballet...
As Tony Bennett sang, the curtain rose on silhouetted dancers dressed in all black and in whimsical monochrome polka-dotted tutus....
Principal dancer Maria Kowroski’s first entrance of Sunday’s program was just walking slowly toward principal Russell Janzen in George Balanchine’s...
The opening to George Balanchine’s “Serenade”—dancers standing feet parallel, right arm reaching up with the palm facing out as if...
