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So Quoted (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Wherein skipping the youtubage today If this is a problem find something cool send it to me and I'll put it up Article in Sunday's New York Times reviewing the Spring season of the American Ballet Theater. I like the way Alastair writes and will look for future columns by him. Quote : Such is balletgoing at Ballet Theater. The company keeps showing you that, though it could be great, it has deliberately...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Alastair Macaulay comes away from this season's American Ballet Theatre season strangely unsatisfied. "Is this the spring season that America's national ballet company should have been giving? Why does Ballet Theater seem to take ballet less seriously than I do?"...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
JOYCE THEATER: The Pilobolus troupe performs today at 8 p.m., and tomorrow at 2 and 8 p.m. (For a full schedule, visit joyce.org.) 175 Eighth Ave.; (212) 242-0800. METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE: American Ballet Theatre presents "Giselle" tonight at 8...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
"City Center's ever-shifting plans for renovation have started to take a toll on the schedules of New York dance institutions, forcing American Ballet Theater to decamp to Mexico and Avery Fisher Hall in fall 2009 and leaving the Paul Taylor Dance Company in uncertainty."...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
BETRAYAL, death, ghosts and redemption - that heady Romantic mix has kept "Giselle" aloft in the ballet world for 167 years and counting. American Ballet Theatre offered the season premiere of "Giselle," with one of the greatest exponents of the...
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News & Information (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
On Monday night, at American Ballet Theatre’s season premiere of “Giselle,” Nina Ananiashvili gave what is likely one of her last performances in one of her best roles, given that next season will be her……Read more
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
“Giselle” is certainly a classic, and in American Ballet Theater’s production little gets in the way of the traditional ballet.
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News & Information (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
There are not one but two belles of the ball in Ronald Hynd’s “The Merry Widow,” which returned to American Ballet Theatre on Monday. Julie Kent danced the title role of Hanna Glawari, reunited with her……Read more
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
WHAT a joy Monday to see the return, after five years, of American Ballet Theatre's "The Merry Widow" - a fun, faintly sexy and nostalgic postcard from another age. A froufrou of skirts, a glitter of medals, a swoon of seductive feminine guile, a...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
American Ballet Theater’s production of “La Bayadère” can leave you feeling as if you’ve stumbled, perhaps after a few drinks, onto a dusty old movie set.
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PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
A look at the new National Training Curriculum recently launched by the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre.
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The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
For the past two decades or so, Twyla Tharp has tended, in her new dances, to recycle features of her earlier successes, but in “Rabbit and Rogue,” which just had its première at American Ballet Theatre, she seems to repeat every single thing that has worked for her before. It’s . . .
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News & Information (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
American Ballet Theatre’s “Sleeping Beauty” Monday night was as much a matter of what wasn’t there as what was. The company brought back this production, which received its world premiere a year ago, minus……Read more
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Swan Lake Samba Girl (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
You guys, I’m wondering if people can answer a question for me. I guess this applies mainly to my readers who are not located in NY and who have never before seen American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, or any of the companies I write about. But it also applies to anyone who has [...]
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Gather your Giselles while you may: American Ballet Theater announced Monday that Nina Ananiashvili would retire from the company after its 2009 summer season at the Metropolitan Opera House. Ms. Ananiashvili, right, who has been a principal dancer with the company since 1993, has appeared in “Swan Lake” and “Don Quixote” during its current season and is scheduled to dance in “Giselle” on July 7. Ms....
