The Tchaikovsky-Petipa Sleeping Beauty is the jewel of classical ballet. It was the ballet that awoke in Pavlova the desire to be a dancer. It was the first ballet that Balanchine appeared in, aged 10, awakening him, too, to the glory of the art-until then, he had only performed his classroom exercises mechanically and with Read More
This shouldn’t take long. The new Boris Eifman ballet, Who’s Who , is just as ghastly as previous Eifman ballets, but instead of overwrought, like most of his work- Red Giselle , The Karamazovs , Tchaikovsky , Russian Hamlet -it’s underwrought. Since Eifman has a tiny (and ugly) dance vocabulary, and is completely unresponsive to Read More
The two-week New York City Ballet orchestra strike ended Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 7, in time for the musicians to be back that night where they belong-in the pit of the New York State Theater, playing Tchaikovsky’s great score for The Nutcracker . The dispute ended in confused anticlimax: An agreement between management and the orchestra’s Read More
