Sweet. The State Theater is getting a makeover! Turns out NYCO and NYCB have kissed and made up, and are joining hands to update the rhinestone horse, as reported by The Times. There will be an acoustical clip-on that will allow for a better opera experience. I guess they’re also aiming to [...]
Watch out for Wendy Whelan’s “bladed bones” in Joel Lobenthal’s New York Sun review of Christopher Wheeldon’s “The Nightingale and The Rose” at NYC Ballet.
What’s the deal with critics and Whelan? Seems like they almost all pick at what little is left on her endoskeleton, but then idolize her as an icon of ballet. [...]
Roslyn Sulcas profiles Bill T. Jones and his Tony-nominated choreography for horny German teens in “Spring Awakening”
Alastair Macaullay likes ‘em young at the School of American Ballet.
Gia Kourlas can’t get enough Bach with her ballet.
Alastair McCaulay says Wendy Whelan ain’t so hot, Sara Mearns is juicy at NYCB.
Then he re-discovers how to appreciate gesture in St. Mark’s’ cemetary.
And Diane Solway exposes dancers’ “chunky” side.
Here, NY Times newbie, Alastair Macaulay, describes the most earnest of earnest activities–public weeping–at the NYC ballet. But then read as he boos at the apparent earnestness of Doug Varone’s “Dense Terrain,” calling it not so fresh and pretentious.
Umm…weren’t you just crying at the ballet?!!
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