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12 March 2013

Edward Villella: The Prodigal Son returns to New York

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Writer Sarah Morton describes a wonderful evening at New York’s Paley Center for Media in which the great one, Edward Villella appeared and chatted. The evening included video clips of his television broadcasts. [...]

25 January 2012

What makes a Balanchine ballerina? Meet Carol Sumner.

Meet a quintessential Balanchine ballerina – short torso, strong straight back, super long legs — Carol Sumner. [...]

6 November 2011

Dancers we love …Tanaquil LeClercq

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Irving Penn’s 1947 photo of Tanaquil LeClercq. [...]

23 September 2011

Tutu Taylor

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Ballet’s in the doldrums. We need a doll like Liz Taylor to perk us up. [...]

15 September 2011

Serenade: C’est un ballet abstrait.

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A scanned-in program of Serenade performed by New York City Ballet in Paris in the 1950s. [...]

2 September 2011

America’s greatest immigrant: the Georgian, Giorgi Melitonovitch Balanchivadze

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A picture’s worth a thousand words, especially when the subject is George Balanchine. [...]

14 May 2011

If it’s August, it’s NYCB Nutcracker time in Los Angeles

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New York City Ballet alumni chat and reminisce about the company’s regular forays to Los Angeles, where they performed outdoors at the Greek Theater in Griffith Park. [...]

26 April 2011

Melissa Hayden hops a train — just as she hopped into the arms of Jacques d’Amboise

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Melissa Hayden, one of the great eccentrics of New York City Ballet, hops a train while on tour with NYCB in Europe. [...]

10 October 2010

Jerome Robbins’s “Glass Pieces” at NYCB

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The outstanding piece in the Sunday matinee at New York City Ballet was “Glass Pieces” made inn 1983 by choreographer Jerome Robbins to the music selections by Phillip Glass. [...]

25 September 2010

Upcoming: NEA classical music institute in NYC

arts·meme is proud to announce her participation in the seventh NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera, October 9 – 19 at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. [...]