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            Keeping Up with Mr. Jones What do Paul McCartney, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill T. Jones have in common? They are all 2010 Kennedy Center Honorees. Jones, whose Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray returns to the Kennedy Center in February, and his fellow honorees will be celebrated on […]

For anyone interested in choreography, Serenade is a feast. I think every measure choreographed by Balanchine has something wonderful in it. The ballet is rewarding on every viewing, and it’s a great way to kick off the new fall season. Last night, sitting in the First Ring added to my pleasure because you could see […]

Wayne McGregor’s Outlier for NYCB started slow and stealthy. There was something eerie about the way Craig Hall and Tiler Peck hovered close to each other. They seemed to be moving in some kind of viscous liquid. But it drew you in right away. I was riveted, RIVETED, for the whole ballet. The sense of danger grew—a kind […]

  “Architecture of Dance” New York City Ballet • David H. Koch Theater • Lincoln Center, NYC April 29–June 27, 2010 • Reviewed by Wendy Perron   When he invited architect Santiago Calatrava, famous for his radical designs of museums and bridges, to collaborate with commissioned choreographers, Peter Martins had intended this festival to emphasize […]

Watching a dancer blossom into an artist is one of the joys of being in this field. I loved it as a teacher, and I love it as an audience member—and as an editor. When I first saw Tiler Peck dance with New York City Ballet, she was a perky, lightning-fast virtuoso. But in the […]

        Seeing Dances at a Gathering and West Side Story Suite in the same program suddenly connected Robbins’ utopia for me. At the end of WSS Suite, when the blue sky with a couple wispy clouds appear in the “Somewhere Ballet,” we’ve seen it before—just a few minutes before. That almost clear […]

New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, NYC January 5–February 28, 2010 Reviewed by Astrida Woods   Sterling Hyltin and Andrew Veyette in Alexey Miroshnickenko’s The Lady with the Little Dog. Photo by Paul Kolnik, Courtesy NYCB. New York City Ballet sharply departed from its traditional repertory this winter season, presenting no less than […]

As usual, I have no discipline when it comes to narrowing down my favorites to 10 best. There are way too many performances and people that I loved.   On another note, the deaths of two giants, Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch, cast a shadow over the whole year. But they also reminded us that […]