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Yellow and Black at NYCB Spring Gala
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KRISTIN SLOAN |
I wore yellow shoes and didnt even know these were the colors 
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LAR 40!…Gala
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BENNYROYCE ROYON |
I was invited to go see the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company gala last thursday at the Hudson Theatre in Millenium Hotel, 44th Street. As I arduously pushed through the Times Square crowd, I couldn’t help but to feel really excited about seeing my friend Jonathan Alsberry dance. He just recently got nominated for the Princess Grace Award by the company!
On the night’s program was Lar’s most recent works and a new creation, principal dancers Marcelo Gomez and Julie Kent from ABT, and chanteuse/actress Bernadette Peters!
I had an amazing time!
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DRA GALA at High School at Friends Seminary
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MIKI ORIHARA |
It was March 12, 2008.I know it was almost a month ago.
My friend’s sister goes to this school and here is the Gala performance that her sister and her friends started to raise fund for DRA last year. Last year they had a dancer from Bill T. Jones and this year was us, MGDC.
from MGDC, Oliver Tobin spoke about DRA, opened the program and MG’s Satyric Festival Song was the opener for this evening.
It was such a fun night.
This performance was formed with students from this school at Friends Seminary, dancers are from 8 years old to senior in High school. Those 8 year old dancers, themselves choreographed short dance! Amazing!
There is a dancer teacher who takes care of all age students. Wow I could not believe how much energy they have. when everydancers are there, waiting to start, well it was vibrating energy…
what they see and what they created was timely intresting. Their movement and try some serious dancing and more. One girl who danced Indian/Ethnic dance mixture who does not study with anybody but came up the idea to dance this, and now she is thinking about attending some classes. A tap dancer who performed improvisation was amazing too. He was proffesional level. It was very toughing that one girl with crathces was dancing with her friends. She danced everything her friends are doing. Lay on the floor, pick up other dancer, and running around. They were all equal. Dancers are having fun and you can tell they are having great time.
When I was dancing Satyric, I heard somebody said, “it is scary…” I don’t know may be the LOOK that I made was that way??? Oh well, but they responded very interestingly well.
Last year they raised $2000 for this gala, and this year they raised $1600! This is great but it does not matter how much they made. It is great that those students( dancers) did something for NY community and they were aware what is in our field and the field that some of them are going in need a lot of support. and they are actually doing something very important.
So I give them BIG 10!!!
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The World at State Theatre.
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DAVID HALLBERG |
On Monday night, the 11th of Feb., a group of dancers from around the world congregated at New York State Theatre in Lincoln Center. The annual gala “Stars of the 21st century” is not only presented in New York but also Paris, Montreal, London, and Tokyo, to name a few.
iThe evening was a special one for me, which marked my debut dancing with Maria Kowroski, the stunning principal with New York City Ballet. Presenters have tried to partner us together for quite a while, and finally or schedules coordinated. Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky pas de deux was on the menu, which both of us had danced outside with our respective companies. Getting 6′ tall dancers to move as quickly as our shorter counterparts was the main challenge. All in all, it was a joy to dance with her and to mark my debut dancing on the State Theatre stage (comparable to the Met in size).
The Bolshoi, Royal Ballet, Berlin State Opera, Munich Ballet were some of the companies presented in the evening and the program was a prime example of what the different companies offer in the ballet world. With choreographers from Roland Petit to Petipa, Balanchine and Bournonville the audience saw the different sides of what their respective companies perform.
A gala program like this is always nice for the dancers too, who have a chance to see old friends that have met on similar galas. Or the chance to meet new ones… the dance world is only so big. I saw a dancer from the Bolshoi, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, who I met when I was 16 in Vail, Colorado doing a summer program. Blast from the past!
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Back to the Grind
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JUSTIN PECK |
Yesterday, New York City Ballet moved back into the New York State Theatre to begin our season of endless Nutcrackers (48 to be exact), and after that, one of our busiest Winter Seasons (which will include many Jerome Robbins classics, Martins’ Romeo and Juliet, and a revival of the two-act Double Feature). Its always comforting for many of us dancers to set up at the Theatre again, as it acts as sort of a second home. Since we are there for practically more time then we spend at our own apartments, they try to make things comfortable by providing cots in the dressing rooms for napping purposes, as well as various lounges located around the vast reaches of the Theatre.
Winging for the Winger
Dancers in our dressing room playing nintendo to pass the time in between rehearsals
Yesterday night, we opened with the Winter Season Gala, which happened to include one of the most beautiful works that I have seen to date—Wheeldon’s Liturgy. For some reason I had missed its premiere when Jock Soto and Wendy Whelan danced the part a few years back. This time around, Whelan danced it once again, with Albert Evans supporting her. Both artists were absolutely striking. With that said, it would have been nice to witness Jock Soto premiere the ballet (I have idolized him since I was a kid training at S.A.B.). Nevertheless, the images created for the dancers in respond to the divine score (by Arvo Part) were dynamic, expansive, and multifaceted. The other pieces on the Gala program were the Rose Adagio & Garland Dance from Sleeping Beauty, a new Peter Martins ballet, an excerpt from Western Symphony, Life of a Tsar, and an interesting video preview of the film version of Opus Jazz, which some of the dancers in the company are working on creating.
