City Ballet got one last season, and now A.B.T. has one, too—a new ballet by Jorma Elo, the latest Designated Choreographer of the Day. “Jorma Elo is huge,” The New York Times recently quoted someone as saying. “Huge!” So huge that apparently he’s making seven new ballets for seven different companies this season alone. (Is Read More
It’s raining Cinderella s at the Met—11 performances in a row of James Kudelka’s version, which was born in Toronto two years ago. (Kudelka was then artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada; now he’s its resident choreographer.) Presumably, A.B.T. thinks that Cinderella—any Cinderella—will sell tickets, though I don’t remember that either Ben Stevenson’s Read More
It’s raining Cinderellas at the Met—11 performances in a row of James Kudelka’s version, which was born in Toronto two years ago. (Kudelka was then artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada; now he’s its resident choreographer.) Presumably, A.B.T. thinks that Cinderella—any Cinderella—will sell tickets, though I don’t remember that either Ben Stevenson’s version, Read More
Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect-they’re all empty. We’ve had more than enough proof of that these past weeks as American Ballet Theatre and Read More
Remember Where the Boys Are -Connie
Francis chasing guys in Fort Lauderdale? Today, all the boys are at American
Ballet Theater, and they’re of such high caliber that the company can afford to
dole them out sparingly, as if they were guest artists dropping by instead of
regulars on daily call. In fact, these past Read More
