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21 June 2012

In a New York state of mind … with Henning Rubsam

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Just one of those chance encounters that makes NYC so great … [...]

18 December 2011

David Hallberg grew up obsessed by Fred Astaire

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CBS “Sunday Morning”‘s feature piece on dancer David Hallberg’s move to the Bolshoi is a pleasure to watch. [...]

18 July 2011

Carmageddon cannot crush communist caper-ballet

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Despite best efforts, California authorities (the people who brought you Ronald “Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev!” Reagan) could not put the kibosh on American Ballet Theatre’s “The Bright Stream,” choreographed by their new in-house guy, Alexei Ratmansky. Clearly controlled by Soviet agents, ABT foisted a clever piece of communist propaganda on our sunny [...]

9 July 2011

Miguel Gutierrez vs. American Ballet Theatre

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Informed that his upcoming performances at Los Angeles’s Alexandria Hotel will go toe to toe (he, barefoot, they, in pointe shoes) with American Ballet Theatre’s “The Bright Stream” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Guggenheim fellow Miguel Gutierrez said: “Shit! It’s always between me and those fuckers!”

[Would I make that up?]

So, who are you [...]