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Published: October 9, 2013
Category: review
By Rachel Straus
Sara Mearns as Odette. Photo by Paul Kolnik.
On Sept. 17, New York City Ballet principal dancer Sara Mearns entered the pantheon of great interpreters of Swan Lake. Dancing the lyrical Odette (white swan) with elegiac grace, and the sharp Odile (black swan) with erotic hauteur, Mearns almost redeemed […]
Published: February 12, 2013
Category: reviewBy Rachel Straus
NEW YORK — New York City Ballet has become the house of retrospection. Not only because of the Balanchine legacy, but also because some of its newest works are suffused with images of the past, delivering culturally conservative messages. Take Justin Peck’s third City Ballet work, Paz de la Jolla, which premiered […]
Published: September 24, 2012
Category: reviewBy Rachel Straus
Photo by Paul Kolnick: Robert Fairchild in “Apollo”
NEW YORK – Opening night of New York City Ballet’s fall season on Sept. 18 launched the company’s two-week homage to the groundbreaking collaboration between Stravinsky and legendary choreographer George Balanchine.
The season runs through Sept. 30, with twelve Balanchine ballets to […]
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