Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

I went back to NYCB again Wednesday night, and it was another good performance.   Really very good: putting-on-the-dog caliber! Glad to see — The principal women thinking about their backs. The men considerably improved at every rank. The female corps … Continue reading →

For City Arts, I review revivals of George Kelly’s 1931 Philip Goes Forth at the Mint, and Rachel Crothers’ A Man’s World at the Metropolitan.

I don’t know how she does it.  Last night Laura and I went to New York City Ballet.  Early this morning, Laura entrained to another city to cover an exhibit for a certain prestigious publication. En route she sent me … Continue reading →

It was interesting– the open-air Delacorte theater didn’t afford real wings at the Fall for Dance opening two weeks ago. Dancing Esplanade, Paul Taylor’s dancers have to make frequent exits and re-entries and while they were waiting remained open to … Continue reading →

We had advance copies of the current Ballet Review with part 2 of my interview series with Wilde just about the time that Dance Magazine editor Wendy Perron informed me that PW was going to receive the Dance Magazine award! … Continue reading →

Pia Catton writes in The Wall Street Journal about ballet start-ups and splinter groups.

Apollinaire Scherr’s review in the Financial Times of Preljocaj’s new “Spectral Evidence”  at New York City Ballet makes it sound intriguing.  I’ll try to catch it next week.

Patricia Wilde talks to me about a whole mess of things in the new, Summer 2013 issue of Ballet Review (part two of our interview series). And there’s so much else in the new issue as well. You may think … Continue reading →

For that’s what Robert Gottleib calls the book in The New York Review of Books!

One of the things that’s wrecking dance and particularly ballet is the ticket prices. I just looked at an interview I did literally decades ago with a friend of the family who was a social work student, then professional, and … Continue reading →