Coming Next Year: ‘Nutcracker’ Competition
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet and the Mark Morris Dance Group will all present their own versions of “The Nutcracker” next year.
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Dance Review | New York City Ballet: Scene Stealers at City Ballet’s Gala Night
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
It’s an exciting time at City Ballet, which also has a clutch of rising stars and a looming spring season with an astounding seven premieres and four commissioned scores.
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Lincoln Center Renovation Now Walking on Air Glass
Curbed (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
"> " style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;"> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. No wonder they're flying high at Lincoln Center: The 2,544-seat David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center has re-opened after a full renovation of the original 1964 Philip Johnson/John Burgee building. The interior work, by JCJ Architecture , was funded in major part by, yes,...
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City Ballet Names Chief to Oversee Business
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
New York City Ballet on Monday announced that it was creating an executive director position to oversee all nonartistic matters and named Katherine E. Brown to the job.
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Concrete Evidence That NY City Ballet And Opera Finally Get Along
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The renovated Koch Theater (né New York State Theater) at Lincoln Center "announces to the world that New York City Ballet and New York City Opera - despite a history of tensions and disagreements that initially threatened the project, and despite City Opera's strained finances&nbdp;- have managed to move forward as roommates."...
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City Opera and City Ballet Reconcile as Roommates
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The renovation of the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center announces to the world that New York City Ballet and New York City Opera have managed to move forward as roommates.
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Morgane Le Fay's Other-Worldly, Defiant, Feminine Spirit Shines Through in Spring 2010 Collection
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The models floated confidently through the doors of Morgane Le Fay's newest retail location at the Malibu Country Mart and onto the lovely green lawn where editors, stylists, photographers and customers eagerly awaited the presentation of Spring 2010 this past Saturday, October 17. The collection is designed by Liliana Casabal who is currently designing costumes...
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A 'numbers guy' turns on to Orlando Ballet
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Juan Escalante is the group's new executive director For Juan Escalante, the Dominican-bred, Bronx-born new executive director at Orlando Ballet, it was not a straight shot into the world of dance. I got into ballet completely by mistake, says Escalante, 43. I had a friend who worked for the New York City Opera, which is in the same building as the New York City Ballet. There was an opening in finance....
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Rediscovering Robbins’s Youthful Spirit, and Catching It on Camera
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Two New York City Ballet soloists have conceived a film version of Jerome Robbins’s 1958 ballet “N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz.” It will be shown next year a part of PBS’s “Great Performances.”
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André Prokovsky, Dancer and Ballet Choreographer, Dies at 70
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
Mr. Prokovsky performed and choreographed around the world and was a former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet.
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André Prokovsky, 70, Dancer and Ballet Choreographer, Is Dead
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
Mr. Prokovsky performed and choreographed around the world and was a former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet.
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Grace Fit for a Tribute, Not Retirement
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
On the eve of a show in her honor at the Vail International Dance Festival, Wendy Whelan of New York City Ballet is still hungry to explore.
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After The Ballet: Finding New Work And A New Identity
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
The layoff of 11 corps members of New York City Ballet "have produced a complicated set of responses among these dancers, who, since childhood, have endured grueling hours of cloistered study to achieve a remarkable level of artistry, a position at the pinnacle of the ballet world and then, suddenly, unemployment: anger mixed with grief but also a sense of new possibility and youthful optimism."...
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Sudden Finale
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
The dancers who were recently laid off at the New York City Ballet were left questioning their identity, their future and mostly asking themselves: “Why me?”
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Attendance At NY City Ballet In Saratoga: It's Down, It's Up
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
"The Saratoga Performing Arts Center announced today that it pulled in 24 percent more people on a per-performance basis for this summer's residency of the New York City Ballet, which concluded Saturday night. Total attendance dropped by 18 percent, from about 42,000 people in 2008 to 35,000 this year, but because City Ballet's stay was shortened to two weeks instead of three, the per-performance...