George Balanchine
The Kirov’s Modern Kick
Courtesy New York City Center
Diana Vishneva Andrian Fadeev in Rubies.
The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn’t always know what to do with them. The dancers—here for a three-week season, just ended, at the City Center—were under a handicap: The stage is so much smaller than their own, in St. Petersburg, that the company’s classical works in particular looked cramped and unhappy. read more »
Talk About Legs! Balanchine’s Jewels Sparkles at City Ballet
Paul Kolnik
Maria Kowroski and Damian Woetzel in Prodigal Son.
I’ve been seeing Balanchine’s Jewels for more than 40 years, and that’s a lot of jewelry. In the beginning it seemed to many of us unique in its ambitions and its splendor; to others it seemed gaudy—paste. But no one thought it would ever travel. Too expensive, too many styles to absorb and what company other than New York City Ballet could produce a Verdy, a McBride and Villella, a Farrell? read more »
Enchanting Balanchine; Empty Feld; Phony Forsythe
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of George Balanchine’s greatest creations—and one read more »
Farrell's Revival of Don Q, Balanchine's Gift to His Muse
George Balanchine's Don Quixote-that ambitious, mysterious work that fascinated and confused us all read more »
Gala Offers Slim Pickings, Capped by Wheeldon's Weakest
You've heard of feast or famine? read more »
Continuity at Graham's Company Preserves the Founder's Spirit
Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century Am read more »
Antidote to Year-End Blues: The Ever-Buoyant Trocks
The year ended with a bang, not a whimper. read more »
The Ballerina Who Bent
On Sunday afternoon, former New York City Ballet dancer Toni Bentley glissade ’d into the garden o read more »
City Ballet, A.B.T. Surprise: A Pair of Thrilling Finales
At the very last possible moment, after the endless parade of non-events, silly events and disastrou read more »
A New Low for City Ballet: Eifman's Odious Homage
Boris Eifman's Musagète may not be the worst ballet ever put on by New York City Ballet-the last 20 read more »
Importing a Native Son: Honoring Balanchine in Russia
To see program after program of Balanchine at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. read more »
Tarnished Jewels, Living Dolls, A Plague of Ballerina Injuries
The first half of City Ballet's "Balanchine 100: The Centennial Celebration" is winding down … and read more »
City Ballet's Salute: 100 Years of Balanchine
I celebrated the centenary of George Balanchine's birth on January 22 by staying at home and reading read more »
Promise and Problems As Centennial Season Opens
Tuesday the 25th was not just the opening night of the New York City Ballet winter season, but also read more »
A Turning Tide at City Ballet? Company Buoyed by Ballerinas
Ballet-at least, New York City Ballet-is woman; so George Balanchine pronounced, and so it has alway read more »
Mark Morris at the Crossroads Looks Hungrily East and West
Where is Mark Morris coming from? And where is he heading? read more »
City Ballet, Balanchine And a Legacy Imperiled
What's wrong? Why do Balanchine's ballets grow fainter by the season? read more »
Live Music Returns to City Ballet … There's No Pulling Strings for Polichenelles
Live Music Returns to City Ballet The two-week New York City Ballet orchestra strike ended Tuesday a read more »
Live Music Returns to City Ballet
The two-week New York City Ballet orchestra strike ended Tuesday afternoon, Dec. read more »
There's No Pulling Strings for Polichenelles
Nutcracker ticketholders are undoubtedly relieved that the New York City Ballet reached a settlement read more »
City Ballet's New Swan Lake : Heartless but Not Hopeless
What War and Peace is to the novel and Hamlet is to the theater, Swan Lake is to ballet-that is, the read more »
A Tragic Person, a Scoundrel and a Genius
Jerome Robbins was known as one of the great choreographers of all time, as a genius, as a friend to read more »
