New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet performed George Balanchine’s marvelously thorny “Pithoprakta” as part of Thursday’s Fall for Dance Festival at City Center.
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Contemporary Music Series, Music of David Shohl at at 8 p.m. at City center performing works by George Balanchine and Helgi Tomasson, plus New Works Festival choreographers Mark Morris, Christopher Wheeldon, Jorma Elo, Val Caniparoli, and Yuri Possokhov at BB Kings with BadFinger at 8 p.m.; and Project X: Kool Keith, Tim Dog and Marc Live at midnightBeck with MGMT play the Newly restored...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
By Robert Gottlieb Balanchine Variations by Nancy Goldner No one knew better than George Balanchine how ephemeral his art was--and he didn't care; he was interested in his next ballet, not his last. But those of us who do care have no one book to turn to that anatomizes his work, ballet by ballet. How can that be? It's as if there were no books walking us through Shakespeare's...
Exhibitionist (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
"Since taking the reigns as Artistic Director, Nissinen has defined the Company’s image with classical and neo-classical works, ranging from full-length ballets including John Cranko’s Onegin, Sir Fredrick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée, Rudolph Nureyev’s Don Quixote, Sergeyev’s The Sleeping Beauty and August Bournonville’s La Sylphide, to masterworks by George Balanchine and new works...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
... October 18, the Mariinsky Theater will stage several shows at London's Sadler's Wells, including George Balanchine's "Apollo" and "The Prodigal Son" and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Tale of Tsar Saltan."
neo-neocon (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
There’s a new star on the New York City Ballet horizon: Daniel Ulbricht. The fact that I’d never even heard of him (or most of the current dancers in the company) until I read this article reminds me how long it’s been since I saw the NYCB, and how fortunate I was to have seen the company in its glory days, when George Balanchine was still alive and well and directing the show. But I...
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
... old-world careers that accelerated in the New World—can be counted on the fingers of one hand: George Balanchine in dance, Americanizing classical ballet; Ernst Lubitsch in film, parlaying operetta wit into a prized Hollywood confection; the pianist Rudolf Serkin, a heroic American solo artist and relentless American pedagogue; the conductor Serge Koussevitzky, whose Tanglewood Festival...
Gay News Bits (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... programs over nine performances, including seven New York premieres. Program A features George Balanchine’s Divertimento No. 15 and the New York premieres of Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour and Yuri Possokhov’s Fusion. Program B features the New York premieres of Helgi Tomasson’s The Fifth Season and Mark Morris’ Joyride, as well as Tomasson’s Concerto Grosso and Balanchine’s...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
... over nine performances, including seven New York premieres. Program A features George Balanchine's Divertimento No. 15 and the New York premieres of Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour and Yuri Possokhov's Fusion. Program B features the New York premieres of Helgi Tomasson's The Fifth Season and Mark Morris' Joyride, as well as Tomasson's Concerto Grosso and Balanchine's...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
New York City Ballet and the Paris Opera have announced that the ballet company will perform George Balanchine’s “Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3” as part of its coming engagement at the Opera Bastille in Paris.
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Sarah Van Patten and Gennadi Nedvigin of San Francisco Ballet in Morris’ Joyridephoto by Erik TomassonSan Francisco Ballet will return (Oct 10-18) with ballets by choreographers including George Balanchine, Mr. Wheeldon, Jorma Elo and company director Helgi Tomasson. Why dear City Center, so laden with memories, when the troupe performs regularly at newer, sleeker edifices? It is still...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... a year of joining PNB, Postlewaite was given a major assignment -- the title role in George Balanchine's celebrated ballet from 1929, "The Prodigal Son.""That was huge for me," he said. "I was not expecting to do any shows, but the week before we opened I learned I would be doing it. I had been working on it, but I was third cast and so not a lot of time had been spent with me. I...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... from "Swing," Christopher Stowell's Cole Porter piece "Eyes on You" and a concert version of George Balanchine's "Who Cares?" fill the bill for "An Evening on Broadway." It plays Nov. 21-22. Julia Adams' "Midsummer," first created for Marin Ballet in 2003, follows March 20-21. "The Little Prince," based on the children's classic by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, premieres May 8-9. A choreographer...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
... in two art forms. The New York City Ballet settled there in 1964, and its resident genius, George Balanchine, proceeded to send forth countless masterpieces, often to music of his fellow Russian and fellow adoptive New Yorker Igor Stravinsky-- Apollo, Agon, Symphony in Three Movements, Violin Concerto. In 1983, I was writing a story, "Hero Futura": "I was walking up Columbus and there...
