Meet a quintessential Balanchine ballerina – short torso, strong straight back, super long legs — Carol Sumner. [...]
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24 December 2011  In keeping with tradition, we listen to Vienna waltzes at year end. And we get to watch them too. [...] 9 October 2011  video snippets of miami city ballet’s staging of a masterful work made by balanchine for nycb’s stravinsky festival of 1972, which we wish we could see right now! [...] 24 September 2011  Out of three choices, which ballet would you wanna see, just based on the costume? [...] 22 September 2011  It’s been a tough week in the ballet world with a lot of change. Our young prince, David Hallberg, has reversed-defected, joining the Bolshoi Ballet. And now we learn that our great, beloved old prince, Edward Villella, will soon to retire. [...] 15 September 2011  A scanned-in program of Serenade performed by New York City Ballet in Paris in the 1950s. [...] 2 September 2011  A picture’s worth a thousand words, especially when the subject is George Balanchine. [...] 18 July 2011  Despite best efforts, California authorities (the people who brought you Ronald “Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev!” Reagan) could not put the kibosh on American Ballet Theatre’s “The Bright Stream,” choreographed by their new in-house guy, Alexei Ratmansky. Clearly controlled by Soviet agents, ABT foisted a clever piece of communist propaganda on our sunny climes. [...] 1 February 2011  “Balanchine was rather reserved,” noted Barbara Horgan, the choreographer’s longtime assistant. “But he adored Lorenz Hart [the troubled but brilliant lyricist of Rogers & Hart songwriting team].” [...] | |||
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