Image from Gallery 100, photographs of Antique Epigraphs by Paul Kolnik While I was in Saratoga for NYCB’s Gala at SPAC, I stopped by Gallery 100 to see Jerome Robbins Continuum, a display of photographs by Paul Kolnik that show New York City Ballet in Robbins’ ballets. Kolnik has been photographing the company for over thirty [...]

Saturday’s Gala at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center had a relaxed, laid-back feel that matched the hot, humid evening, but the outdoor setting and sticky weather didn’t stop the crowds from dressing up for the occasion. Nor was the event lacking in star power: Rita Moreno, who played “Anita” in the film version of [...]

Ellen Sorrin, Jock Soto, and Robert Fairchild in costume for Fancy Free - photograph by Evan On Monday evening, thanks to the generosity of my friend Sarah, I attended a special seminar at The JCC in Manhattan on the life and work of choreographer Jerome Robbins, with a particular focus on his contribution to New York [...]

A curtain call for Damian Woetzel (click to enlarge) Photo by Evan - Please do not use without permission. Watching one of my favorite ballet dancers - who I’ve watched for about fifteen years - dance his final performance and take his final bow at the New York State Theater last night was not easy. Writing about [...]

NYCB dancers in the final pose from Robbins’ Glass Pieces, photo by Paul Kolnik Tuesday’s evenings program at New York City Ballet took the audience on a musical journey from Bach’s solo piano and solo cello pieces, to an early twentieth century violin concerto by Alban Berg, to Philip Glass’s minimalist music of the 1980s.  The [...]

Christopher Wheeldon’s Rococo Variations - photo by Paul Kolnik “Here and Now” was a fitting title for a program that featured four contemporary works - the oldest premiered in 1998 - by some of the most sought-after choreographers in ballet today. But I was swept far away from the here and the now, traveling to [...]

A cab with a New York City Ballet ad (Wendy Whelan and Craig Hall in The Cage) spotted on 83rd and 2nd avenue. Photo by Allison. (click to enlarge)

Rachel Rutherford and Craig Hall in N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz, photo by Paul Kolnik The Jerome Robbins Celebration is well underway at NYCB, now in its fourth week of the spring season.  Although I’ve already seen several Robbins ballets since the start of the season, Wednesday evening’s “Baroque to Jazz” program was the first one that [...]

Teresa Reichlen in Antique Epigraphs Admittedly, ‘French Cuisine’ was not one of the programs I was looking forward to most this season at New York City Ballet. I’m partial to Balanchine over Robbins, Tchaikovsky over Debussy, and plotless ballets over princes and princesses. But Thursday’s night’s program certainly exceeded my expectations and I particularly relished Antique [...]

Wendy Whelan in costume for Opus 19/The Dreamer photo by Josef Astor, Dance Magazine, March 2003 Wednesday evening’s program at the New York State Theater was a quadruple bill of works by Jerome Robbins with music by three Russian composers. With the exception of the not-so-memorable Andantino, the opening duet that was performed delicately by Megan [...]