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Volume 5, Number 23 - June 12, 2007

this week's reviews

NYCB's Spring Season
Essential Balanchine (June 2, 2007)
reviewed by Leigh Witchel
International Balanchine (June 7, 2007)
reviewed by Michael Popkin
Wheeldon's "The Nightengale and the Rose" (June 8, 2007)
reviewed by Mary Cargill

Darcey Bussell's Farewell, and more
The Royal Ballet

by John Percival

ABT's Spring Met Season
"The Sleeping Beauty"
June 6, 2007 (Vishneva-Hallberg)
reviewed by Susan Reiter
"The Sleeping Beauty"
June 9, 2007 (Murphy-Hallberg)

reviewed by Michael Popkin

Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center
Program A

reviewed by George Jackson
Program B
reviewed by Alexandra Tomalonis

Letters and Commentary

London Letter
Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal and English National Ballets
announce their seasons

by John Percival

San Francisco Letter 26
San Francisco Ballet: Programs 6 and 7

by Rita Felciano

Letter from London
Henri Oguike Dance Company, Richard Alston Dance Company

by John Percival

Letter from Copenhagen
Nikolaj Hübbe to take over his parent company

by Eva Kistrup

did you miss any of these?

ABT's Spring Met Season
"The Dream" and "Sinfonie Concertante"
reviewed by Leigh Witchel
"The Sleeping Beauty"
reviewed by Mary Cargill
"The Sleeping Beauty"
reviewed by Leigh Witchel

NYCB's Spring Season
"Mozartiana,” “Piano Pieces,” “Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2”
reviewed by Susan Reiter
“In G Major,” “Dances at a Gathering,” “I’m Old Fashioned”
reviewed by Susan Reiter

ARKA
by George Jackson



New York City Ballet's Spring Season

Essential Balanchine (June 2, 2007)
reviewed by Leigh Witchel

International Balanchine (June 7, 2007)
reviewed by Michael Popkin

Wheeldon's "The Nightengale and the Rose" (June 8, 2007)
reviewed by Mary Cargill

 


Darcey Bussell's Farewell, and more
The Royal Ballet

by John Percival

My goodness. Five photographs of Darcey Bussell all across the front page of The Times. Further pictures, in that and other papers, of her both weeping and smiling during curtain calls. And a live television broadcast of her dancing on the last night of the season (has that happened before since Natalia Makarova's reconciliation with the Kirov Ballet in London?). Anyway, she has very publicly and, she says, irrevocably retired from ballet (although she does have some different shows lined up). She is going rather young: her Royal Ballet career lasted only twenty years. But some of us felt she never fully lived up to her early promise, although her many fans might want to kill me for saying so, and her uniquely industrious publicity never ceased. She says she wants to care for her two young children, and anyway perhaps a touch of strain could be seen lately. READ MORE


ABT's Spring Met Season



"The Sleeping Beauty"
June 6, 2007 (Vishneva-Hallberg)
reviewed by Susan Reiter

"The Sleeping Beauty"
June 9, 2007 (Murphy-Hallberg)

reviewed by Michael Popkin

 


Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center

"Scotch Symphony," “Concierto de Mozart," “Scene d’amour” from Bejart’s “Romeo et Juliet,” and "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"
reviewed by George Jackson

"Mozartiana," “Divertimento Brillante ," “Scene d’amour” from Bejart’s “Romeo et Juliet,” and "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"
reviewed by Alexandra Tomalonis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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