Glass Pieces
This week at the Joyce, the Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections Festival presented its starriest program yet: “Dancing with Glass: The Piano Etudes.”
Continue ReadingWorld-class review of ballet and dance.
The past week has been one of celebration at New York City Ballet. The company is marking seventy-five years of existence with a season devoted to the ballets of its founding choreographer, George Balanchine. On opening night, September 19, after the performance, the stage was filled with hundreds of company-members, past and present, among them Suzanne Farrell, Lourdes Lopez, Robert Barnett, Edward Villella, Jock Soto, Nikolaj Hubbe, Allegra Kent, and Suki Schorer. It was even more thrilling to see them greet each other warmly during the intermissions.
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This week at the Joyce, the Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections Festival presented its starriest program yet: “Dancing with Glass: The Piano Etudes.”
Continue ReadingWatching George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” the other night at New York City Ballet, I was struck, once again, by the sense of balance it both portrays and embodies.
Continue ReadingAs the lights dim in Sadler’s Wells, I am struck by how dark the theatre I’m sitting in is. These few moments before a show begins create a unique situation of near complete trust on the audience; there’s no light, natural or artificial.
Continue ReadingDuring the past ten years, Jody Sperling has created a portfolio of dance works that calls for action to protect and preserve the environment. She has traveled to the Arctic to dance on disappearing ice.
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I agree with you about the sets. But they are not that old. Peter Harvey, who designed the original sets (and they REALLY looked chintzy; I just think Mr. B. had no money at the time), also designed these new sets in 2004.