CBS “Sunday Morning”‘s feature piece on dancer David Hallberg’s move to the Bolshoi is a pleasure to watch. [...]
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28 September 2011  One week after news breaks of the historic, century-old precedent-breaking reversal of fortune, a shocker, that the Bolshoi Theatre had picked off the bravura-best of our ballet talent, David Hallberg, in a good old-fashioned talent steal ..comes American Ballet Theater’s powerful repost. They will go teach the Russians how to teach ballet. [...] 21 September 2011  In a tremendous blow to American ballet, our best home-grown talent, literally a corn-fed farm boy from South Dakota, David Hallberg, 29, announced today that he is joining the Bolshoi Ballet. [...] 29 July 2011  Thrilled to be photo’ed with former Shark, George Chakiris, were Renae Williams Niles, the Music Center’s head of programming, and Jane Jalenko, President of Center Dance Arts and a big West Side Story fan. A dance critic was also hanging around. [...] 18 July 2011  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 climes. [...] 14 July 2011 BREAKING NEWS * BREAKING NEWS * BREAKING NEWS * This just in from Renae Williams Niles, Director, Dance Presentations, Los Angeles Music Center: It was just confirmed that he [Hallberg] will not be dancing this week. Dear David Hallberg’s ankle, Please, dear Mr. Ankle, be a very nice and kind ankle, and be healed [...] 9 July 2011  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 [...] 6 October 2010  Cynthia Gregory, the great Los Angeles-born ballerina, has been appointed artistic advisor and coach to the Nevada Ballet Theatre. [...] 17 July 2010 “The Sleeping Beauty” debuted in St. Petersburg in 1890. Balletomanes have been fighting about it ever since. [...] | |||
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