Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
New York City Ballet’s new staging of “The Seven Deadly Sins ,” which had its premiere at the company’s spring gala on May 11, puts Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s dark, sinister “ballet chanté” of 1933 into a new context: a tinsel-town soundstage, complete with unison hoofers in the grand finale. Choreographer Lynn Taylor-Corbett, whose credits include Broadway’s “Swing,” has essentially created a Cliff Notes version of this irony-laced yarn, dragging principal dancer Wendy Whelan and guest artist Patti Lapone through seven shallow scenes of human transgression and stripping the work of its brooding soul.
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
There is no better way to anoint a rising male ballet star than to award him the title role in George Balanchine’s “Apollo.” On May 5 at David R. Koch Theater, New York City Ballet corps dancer Chase Finlay hit the big time with “Apollo,” receiving three curt
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Tags: Ana Sophia Scheller, Apollo, Bruce Webber, Chase Finlay, Four Temperaments, French Vogue, George Balanchine, Gonzalo Garcia, Igor Stravinsky, Jennie Somogyi, Maria Kowroski, Monumentum Pro Gesualdo, Movements for Piano and Orchestra, New York City Ballet, Nietzche, Peter Martins, Sebastian Marcovici, Sterling Hyltin, Tiler Peck, Vitruvian-Man
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