Saratoga Performing Arts Center Announces 2021 Classical Season and Summer Events
Saratoga Performing Arts Center is inviting audiences to the SPAC grounds and nearby Pitney Farms to experience live, outdoor performances throughout the summer. The SPAC amphitheater and main lawn will be the home of performances by New York City Ballet, The Philadelphia Orchestra and Opera Saratoga, as well as “A Midsummer Night’s Supper.”
New York City Ballet 2021 Digital Season Programming Announced for February 22-27
New York City Ballet’s 2021 Digital Season programming has been announced for the week of February 22-27, focusing on George Balanchine’s Prodigal Son. The ballet is the first to be featured in the multi-part series “Three Sides of Balanchine,” exploring the choreographer’s narrative, classical, and neoclassical traditions.
New York City Ballet Announces 2021 Digital Season
New York City Ballet announced today that the Company is planning to create several new works and special programs, many of which will be specially filmed onstage at the Koch Theater, for online release from February through May 2021.
New York City Ballet Announces Weeks Three and Four of Their Digital Season
On Tuesday, October 13, at 8pm EDT, NYCB will release the fourth program consisting of George Balanchinea??s Duo Concertant, a duet accompanied by an onstage violinist and pianist, along with excerpts from Jerome Robbinsa?? Dances at a Gathering and Balanchinea??s Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet and Symphony in C.
BWW Review: New York City Ballet's THE NUTCRACKER
Nostalgic rose-colored glasses so tint few works as The Nutcracker. Its music, its images, its audience of children, either mesmerized or fidgeting in their Sunday best, have become annual staples of the Christmas season. Balanchine's 1954 staging of the ballet is its quintessential manifestation. As with all things Balanchine, it is a feat of harmonious contradictions; instead of his more academic ventures that seek to marry the aristocratic form with the fashionable modern, The Nutcracker is a practice in elegant nostalgia. Perhaps Balanchine felt this nostalgia for a Russia that was long gone; Stalin died the previous year, leaving behind a Russia that held no resemblance to the first act fete. That the choreographer was capable of conjuring these charming visions of a dreamlike childhood, while not sacrificing his pioneering vocabulary, is a testament to his genius
The Annenberg Center And NextMove Dance Present Stars Of American Ballet
The Annenberg Center and NextMove Dance present Stars of American Ballet, which brings together today's most remarkable ballet talent in a cast of principal and soloist dancers from the New York City Ballet and other renowned companies. Led by Daniel Ulbricht, a?oeone of the best male ballet dancers in New York,a?? (Dance Magazine) this collective makes its Philadelphia debut with masterpieces by Balanchine, Wheeldon and more in a captivating ode to ballet. Performances are Friday, October 18 (8 PM) and Saturday, October 19 (2 PM and 8 PM). Visit AnnenbergCenter.org for tickets.
BWW Review: NYCB Evolves the Classics of Tchaikovsky & Balanchine
In the history of classical ballet, it's hard to find a pair more perfect than Balanchine and Tchaikovsky. Balanchine's choreographic style, defined by quirky syncopations and dramatic port de bras, punctuates the longing percussions of Tchaikovsky's scores. The exchange of movement and music is a call and response; a mutual muse that appears when beckoned. This is the best way to describe New York City Ballet's artistry on the evening of January 29, 2018. As the dancers took the stage for three Balanchine classics, you could feel both the tradition of precedent and excitement of modernity in the air.