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Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto

Photo of the day!!! Todays ballet is Jerome Robbins "In The Night". The beautiful ballet is set to four nocturnes by Chopin. There are three couples who each performs a pas de deux and they all come together at the end. The last part is my absolute favorite!! It's so pretty!!

NYCB website- http://www.nycballet.com/company/rep.html?rep=97

Rachel Rutherford and Tyler Angle

Rachel Rutherford and Arch Higgins

I have lots of videos!!!

Mariinsky-Part 1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmYa8cGy3jg

Part 2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytTB6Gio0i0&feature=channel

Part 3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2FY-lepeFo&feature=channel

Part 4- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObpisQ1vgjA&feature=related

Olga Voloboueva and Priit Krippson in the 2 pas de deux- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djszTv5bb7Q&feature=related

NYCB principals Jonathan Stafford and Maria Kowroski in the 2 pas de deux- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJHUCGQHA9A

Paris Opera Ballet in the 3 pas de deux- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QeICzfIe0E&NR=1

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Janie Taylor and Benjamin Millipied in Rubies

Photo(s) of the day!!! I think the new title should be ballet of the day!! Here we have a few different photos from the Rubies section of Balanchine's Jewels. Rubies is probably my favorite section because it so much fun!!(But then again, Emeralds just has something about it!) The beautiful costumes are by Karinska and the music for this section is Stravinsky. I just bought the music and it's so great!!

What NYCB has to say about it- http://www.nycballet.com/company/rep.html?rep=105
And the recent NY Times article- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/arts/dance/27jewels.html

Sterling Hyltin and Gonzalo Garcia in Rubies

Damian Woetzel and Alexandra Ansanelli in Rubies

Teresa Reichlen and NYCB in Rubies

Another great thing about Rubies is that I have some videos!!

Amar Ramasar and Ashley Bouder in the pas de deux- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40fs9PfFf4M

Paloma Herrera and Nikolaj Hubbe- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXh9PC2h3TY

Paris Opera Ballet- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddx2uS2clzA&translated=1

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Photo(s) of the day!! The wonderful Janie Taylor and Damian Woetzel in one of my all-time favorite ballets, Jerome Robbins "Afternoon of a Faun"! I love this ballet so much and the music by Claude Debussy is beautiful!

Peter Martins and Suzanne Farrell in Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun

Luckily, I have a few videos of this ballet to share!! The first one is the full ballet, but the others are just clips.

Suzanne Farrell and Afshin Mofid- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1037730427355313168#

Jacques d'Amboise and Tanaquil LeClerq- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmnnhq_ZXlw

Tiler Peck and Robbie Fairchild (Two of my current favorites!!)rehearsing at the Vail International Dance Festival- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQFbPnsmWM8

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Photo of the day! NYCB in Jerome Robbins' "Glass Pieces". I've seen parts of this ballet and it's pretty great!! The music by Philip Glass is fantastic, especially in the pas de deux. The ending is so repetitive and energetic! Here is a link to the video section of NYCB's website where you can find a video (Under the NYCB Dancers category) of NYCB soloist Adrian Danchig-Waring and corps member Georgina Pazcougin talking about it- http://www.nycballet.com/company/viewing.html

And a clip of NYCB performing it (This is the pas de deux I was talking about!)-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7iyu5z6ulY

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Photo of the day!!! Sara Mearns and Amar Ramasar in the fourth movement of Balanchine's "Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet". They are both principals with the NYCB. Amar was featured in Jerome Robbins's "NY Export: Opus Jazz" which was awesome, by the way!!! These gorgeous costumes are by Karinska!!

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Photo of the day!! Wendy Whelan in Balanchine's "Mozartiana". She is one of my favorite dancers and next month I'm going see her perform for the first time!!! She is just a gorgeous dancer!!

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It's time for the annual photo of the day!!!!! This is Nikolaj Hubbe and Darci Kistler in Balanchine's "Apollo". I love this ballet!! It's one of my favorites!!!

NY Export: Opus Jazz

Tonight on PBS is the premiere of "NY Export: Opus Jazz" as a part of the Great Performance series! I am super excited about it and encourage everyone to watch it!!! It will be amazing!! Trailer- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GGa6xXJfTo

http://opusjazz.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/arts/television/24opus.html?ref=dance

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Photo of the day!! This is Sara Mearns, principal with NYCB, in the Emeralds section from Balanchine's "Jewels". She is such a beautiful dancer and on of my favorites! Here is a video of her in a new ballet by Avi Scher!! (With Marcelo Gomes, principal with ABT, also one of my favs!!!!)

- http://dancemedia.com/v/3550

And one of her rehearsing George Balanchine's "Symphony in C"

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_D3hCn_wZg

And the last one of her as Odile in Swan Lake( Terrible quality, but you can still see how fantastic she really is!!)

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxuVZQw1tDw&translated=1

NY Times article

- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/arts/dance/31sara.html?scp=1&sq=sara%20mearns&st=cse

Photo of the day!!(Maria Kowroski in Serenade.)