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Sterling Hyltin and Andrew Veyette in "Rubies" from Jewels. (Photo: Paul Kolnik)

City Ballet’s September Start

Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet’s ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in the early fall, having cut down on the relentlessly long spring season when dancers, critics and audiences droop on the vine, we wake up after the dog days of August with something to look at. It’s unfortunate that this became possible only when the financially floundering City Opera was forced to decamp from the David H. Koch Theater. (To be fair, this is one thing we can’t blame on David H. Koch and his politics.) But at least the opera’s loss is dance’s gain. Read More

Botched Resurrections, Full-Frontal Sensations

It’s been a bumpy ride-the fall season, that is. No doubt you remember how, a few months ago, I wished in these pages that I could see what the Kirov looks like in its Fokine repertory. That foolish prayer was answered-in Paris, in October-with a marathon Fokine evening at the Châtelet, where Diaghilev first unveiled Read More