Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Photo of the day!

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!!

Rachel Rutherford and Tyler Angle
Rachel Rutherford and Arch Higgins

I have lots of videos!!!

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




Tuesday, March 30, 2010

photo of the day!


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


Monday, March 29, 2010

Photo of the day!

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.


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

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Photo of the day!

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!)-

Saturday, March 27, 2010

photo of the day!

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!!


Friday, March 26, 2010

Photo of the day!


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!!

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Photo of the day!

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!!!

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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


Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Photo of the day!

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!!!!)

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

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

NY Times article

Monday, March 22, 2010

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