New Paquita, Mixed Results
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15h ago
Leigh Donlan reviewed the Sun Feb 9th, 2025, performance at the Koch Theater in New York City Alexei Ratmansky premiered an invigorated Paquita for New York City Ballet – a fresh but fragmented take on the pedigreed classic. This program opened with Balanchine’s 1951 restaging of the first act Pas ..read more
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Saints, Sinners & Shortstops, from a legend in his own time
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5d ago
Preface to Saints, Sinners & Shortstops, a memoir by Jim Becker – foreign correspondent, AP bureau chief, sportswriter, opera, ballet and theatre critic – who went to the Great Newsroom in the Sky yesterday at the age of 98. “It must be great to be 17,” said the City ..read more
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The Mystical Beauty of Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
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1w ago
Leigh Donlan reviewed the Jan 30, 2025, performance at New York’s Joyce Theater Calais-based Compagnie Hervé KOUBI returned to the Joyce Theater last week with Ce Que Le Jour Doit à La Nuit (What the Day Owes to the Night.) After its 2013 premiere in Aix-en-Provence, it came ..read more
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Ronald K. Brown/ EVIDENCE: Being the change for 40 years
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2w ago
Leigh Donlan reviewed the Jan 15, 2025 performance at New York’s Joyce Theater More spiritual highs at New York’s Joyce Theater after Ragamala Dance’s transcendent account of ancient Sanskrit tales, this time from Brooklyn-based Ronald K. Brown/ EVIDENCE, who returned for their home season while commemorating their 40th ..read more
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Ragamala’s Children of Dharma: A Well-timed Tale Told in Dance
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3w ago
Leigh Donlan reviewed the Jan 9th, 2025, performance at the Joyce Theater in New York Twin Cities-based Ragamala Dance Company brought Children of Dharma to the Joyce Theater this week for its New York premiere. Created by Ranee Ramaswamy and her daughters Aparna and Ashwini, the dance beautifully illustrated select ..read more
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Crime and Punishment: A Novel Ballet Lost in Translation
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3M ago
Leigh Donlan reviewed the matinee performance on Saturday, Nov 2, 2024, at Lincoln Center Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment is a tough novel to translate to the stage, let alone into ballet, but choreographer Helen Pickett, whose Crucible for Scottish Ballet and Emma Bovary for National Ballet of Canada ..read more
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Otherworldly: ABT’s Signature Works
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3M ago
Leigh Donlan reviewed the matinee on Saturday, 26th October, 2024, at Lincoln Center Another broad and ambitious program from American Ballet Theatre wrapped this weekend with two classic pas de deux, two repeats from the Choreographers program, and the beloved The Kingdom of the Shades, which was most captivating ..read more
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‘Neo’ at the Heart of ABT’s Second Program
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4M ago
Leigh Donlan reviewed the Sunday evening performance on 20th October, 2024, at Lincoln Center The exceptionally dry program title, Choreographers of the 20th and 21st Century, gave away little but turned out to herald a densely packed second program of American Ballet Theatre’s fall season: two iconic works from ..read more
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Dazzled as ABT’s Fall Season Begins
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4M ago
Leigh Donlan reviewed the Saturday matinee, 19th Oct 2024, at Lincoln Center American Ballet Theatre opened their fall season with a bang: a program titled  Innovation Past and Present comprising two world premieres and one quintessential classic, at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater. Kyle Abraham’s Mercurial Son was an ..read more
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State of Darkness Illumines A Poorly Curated Program 5 at Fall for Dance
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4M ago
Leigh Donlan reviewed the Saturday 28th Sept, 2024 performance at New York’s City Center Fall for Dance concluded its 2024 festival at New York City Center this weekend with Program 5, a three-piece bill (plus a bonus) that set out to explore relationships but lost its way. Cassandra Trenary gave ..read more
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