- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
Get out your handkerchiefs; in its final week at the Met, the company tugs heartstrings with Shakespeare’s tale of death-mark’d love, “Romeo and Juliet.” This is the sumptuous Kenneth MacMillan production—dark and highly dramatic. As usual, audiences . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
For his 2007 production of “Romeo + Juliet,” Peter Martins reduced the ballet to two acts from the original three, reordered some of Prokofiev’s cinematic score, upped the violence, and focussed on the youth, speed, and virtuosity of his dancers. He also . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
The company brings out its warhorse production of “Swan Lake,” as if to appease the ballet gods. On July 2, David Hallberg dances opposite the Berlin Opera’s visiting star Polina Semionova, who is appearing with the troupe for the first time . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
In its final week at the Metropolitan Opera House, the company will present its newish production of “The Sleeping Beauty,” staged by Gelsey Kirkland (one of the great Auroras of recent memory), Kevin McKenzie, and Michael Chernov. This ballet, with its sumptuous score . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
“Russian Seasons” (2006), Alexei Ratmansky’s first ballet for the company, returns to the repertory after an absence of almost four years. Set to a song cycle by Leonid Desyatnikov, the piece is made up of scenes that are loosely based . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->“DANCE: UNDER THE INFLUENCE”
The second installment of this performance series, held in a tiny theatre at the Museum of Arts and Design, will offer new works by Miro Magloire, who founded the New Chamber Ballet, and Ben Munisteri, a choreographer whose work combines ballet technique . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->“DANCE: UNDER THE INFLUENCE”
The second installment of this performance series, held in a tiny theatre at the Museum of Arts and Design, will offer new works by Miro Magloire, who founded the New Chamber Ballet, and Ben Munisteri, a choreographer whose work combines ballet technique . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
George Balanchine’s “Nutcracker” wraps up the holiday season at the David H. Koch. (Lincoln Center. 212-870-5570. Dec. 28 at 6, Dec. 29 at 2 and 6, Dec. 30 at 2 and 8, and Dec. 31 at 2.)
AMERICAN BALLET . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The company goes back to basics, with seven days of Balanchine’s “black-and-white” dances, modernist masterpieces that have come to define the style and look of twentieth-century American ballet. In “Apollo” (1928)—set, like many . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
“Outlier,” the new ballet by Wayne McGregor, one of the hottest properties in European contemporary dance, is inspired by the monolithic, modernist vision of the architect Philip Johnson, who designed the David H. Koch Theatre. Also new this season is Benjamin Millepied’ . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->GO NUTS
The “Nutcracker” season is hotter than ever, with American Ballet Theatre’s brand-spanking-new production, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky, at BAM (Dec. 22-Jan. 2). | With its skillful mix of nostalgia and stage magic, George Balanchine’s “Nutcracker,” from . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
For its welcome return to City Center, the company forgoes evening-length story ballets in favor of a sampling of shorter works. In addition to Alexei Ratmansky’s luminous chamber work “Seven Sonatas,” the repertory includes Paul Taylor’s “Black . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The industrious Benjamin Millepied—who created the dance sequences for Darren Aronofsky’s ballet-noir film “Black Swan”—premières his latest ballet, “Plainspoken,” set to a commissioned score by David Lang, at the Oct. 7 . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
The fall repertory season, with its emphasis on shorter works, showcases the company’s range, from the classicism of Alexei Ratmansky’s “Seven Sonatas” to the modernism of Merce Cunningham’s “Duets.” A.B.T. presents three dances by Twyla . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
The penultimate week of the season at the Met is devoted to mixed bills, each of which offers many charms. The Frederick Ashton evening on Wednesday has an all-star ensemble in “The Dream”—Herman Cornejo is unsurpassable as Puck—and “ . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
George Balanchine’s “Nutcracker” has something for everyone: a magical tree and leaping candy canes; an exotic, midriff-baring Arabian dance; one of the most delightful scores in ballet; and, for the aficionados, a constantly changing cast, which is announced on . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
George Balanchine’s “Nutcracker” has something for everyone: a magical tree and leaping candy canes; an exotic, midriff-baring Arabian dance; one of the most delightful scores in ballet; and, for the aficionados, a constantly changing cast, which is announced on . . ....
- American Ballet Theatre @ Metropolitan Opera House
Get out your handkerchiefs; in its final week at the Met, the company tugs heartstrings with Shakespeare’s tale of death-mark’d love, “Romeo and Juliet.” This is the sumptuous Kenneth MacMillan production—dark and highly dramatic. As usual, audiences have their pick of casts: Juliet is one of Gillian Murphy’s finest roles, with David Hallberg as her ardently...
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->1.2.3. FESTIVAL
The junior troupes of Alvin Ailey, American Ballet Theatre, and Paul Taylor Dance Company take up residence at the Joyce, sharing the stage only on opening night. Taylor 2, which is more a small touring satellite of the main company than a training ground, will present scaled . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The “Architecture of Dance” festival continues with a new piece from Christopher Wheeldon, “Estancia.” It uses a lively, energetic score by the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera that was commissioned by Lincoln Kirstein in 1941 for a ballet that was never staged . . ....
- Joan Acocella: David Hallberg in Kenneth MacMillan’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
David Hallberg, of American Ballet Theatre, has spent a lot of time in “prince” roles. You can see why. He is six feet one and blindingly handsome, and also—a rare feature—extremely sweet. That’s nice, but you have to wonder: Is there a . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
Peter Martins’s version of “Swan Lake,” made for the Royal Danish Ballet in 1996, is both familiar and not; the outline of the story and many of the famous set pieces (the pas de deux in the forest clearing, the dance . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
“The Sleeping Beauty” is perhaps the crowning jewel of the Russian Imperial ballet tradition; its score, Tchaikovsky’s second for the ballet, is considered by many to be his greatest. The famous “Rose Adagio,” in which the heroine, Aurora, plucks . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
A new staging of Kurt Weill’s “The Seven Deadly Sins,” choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, premières on May 11, at the company gala. This ballet chanté, written for the Théâtre des Champs-Élys . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The company winds down its spring run with Balanchine’s “Jewels,” the single evening-length ballet of its season. Instead of having a plot, this triptych portrays three different worlds, each with its own style, music, and mood. “Emeralds,” . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The company revives Peter Martins’s “Magic Flute” (1981), a story ballet based not on the Mozart opera but rather on a nineteenth-century ballet by Lev Ivanov, with music by Riccardo Drigo. Casts appear on the company’s Web . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The fall season will conclude with three performances of George Balanchine’s “Square Dance”—a sunny ballet with a haunting male solo at its core—and two evenings devoted to “Jewels,” a meditation on the aural worlds of . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
As the ballet world continues to feel the aftereffects of the “Black Swan” craze, New York City Ballet opens its fall season with performances of Peter Martins’s evening-length “Swan Lake,” from 1996. Romance is not his strongest . . ....
