Posts Tagged ‘Alexei Ratmansky’
Friday, March 15th, 2013
Peck, a twenty-five year old City Ballet corps member, is not a complete novice in the art of choreography. La Jolla is his fourth work for City Ballet, following his most recent critical success, Year of the Rabbit. But La Jolla, set to Bohuslav Martinu’s Sinfonietta la Jolla, didn’t win me over. Peck’s choreography rarely conjures any sense of La Jolla as an actual place. The ballet seems to be in the service of displaying the dancers’ high level of technical ability, and Peck’s choreographic proficiency. He skillfully arranges his 18 dancers in geometric formations and patterns through an array of steps that feature the classical ballet lexicon. It’s a charming, impressive display. However the confounding part about La Jolla is what it actually evokes: the urgent, frenetic pace of New York.
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Tags: Alexei Ratmansky, Amar Ramasar, California, Cleo Person, Concerto DSCH, Jerome Robbins, Justin Peck, N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater, Paz de la Jolla, Reid Bartelme, Sterling Hyltin, Tyler Peck, Year of the Rabbit
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
Another event that featured music as much as dance was the September 17 Alice Tully Hall performance of the Simón Bolivar National Youth Choir and the José Limón Dance Company. The highlight of the one-night only occasion, celebrating Venezuala’s El Sistema, was Missa Brevis.
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Tags: Alexei Ratmansky, Alice Tully, Apollon Musagète, Ashley Bouder, Chinese Zodiac, Christopher Wheeldon, Doris Humphrey, El Sistema, Ellen Bar, Enjoy Your Rabbit, Francisco Ruvalcaba, Gabriela Poler-Buzali, George Balanchine, Guggenheim Museum, Igor Stravinsky, Jose Limon, Justin Peck, Kathryn Alter, Limon Dance Company, Michael Atkinson, Missa Brevis, Monte Carlo, New York City Ballet, Peter B. Lewis Theater, Peters Martins, Simon Bolivar National Youth Choir, Sufjan Stevens, Tiler Peck, Work & Process, Year of the Rabbit, Zoltan Kodaly
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011
By Rachel Straus May 1-2 Guggenheim Museum The popular Works + Process series presents “American Ballet Theatre on to Act II.” Current ABT dancers will perform excerpts from their upcoming Metropolitan Opera House season. ABT alumni will discuss the challenges dancers face in the second act of their careers. You can watch the event each […]
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Tags: 92nd St. Y, Alexei Ratmansky, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Andrew Nemr, Antony Tudor, Apollo Theater, BAC Flicks, Balanchine, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Benjamin Millepied, Bharata Natyam, Camille A. Brown, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Charles Atlas, Christopher Wheeldon, Dances Patrelle, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Gilbert & Sullivan, Guggenheim Museum, Gus Solomons, Joyce Theater, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Marshall Davis, Mats Ek, Mondays with Merce, Movement Research, Nancy Dalva, New York City Ballet, New York City Dance Parade, Odissi, Patti Lupone, Pedro Ruiz, Rafael Bonachela, Sakshi Productions, Sydney Dance Company, Trisha Brown, Wendy Whelan, “Giselle, “Lady of the Camellias, ” Dakshina Company, ” “Cinderella, ” “Coppelia, ” “Don Quixote, ” “Swan Lake, ” “The Sleeping Beauty
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Monday, January 24th, 2011
By Rachel Straus If you’re a ballet lover, you know her name. Sara Mearns. New York Times senior dance critic Alastair MacAulay recently called her “the greatest American ballerina of our time.” On January 21, she performed in Jerome Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering (1969) and Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH (2008) with the New York […]
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Tags: Alastair MacAulay, Alexei Ratmansky, Jerome Robbins, New York City Ballet, Sara Mearns, Tyler Angle
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