Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

The new, Spring 2012 issue of Ballet Review is ripe for purchasing and very well worth being purchased and, what’s more, read.  Featured in it, among many other noteworthy articles, is my interview with Nicolai Hansen, whose dancing was exemplary when the … Continue reading →

concerning plans for next season by Bayou City Concert Musicals, that wonderful outfit which brought me to Houston last summer.

Caught in the act of dancing fabulously.  I write about them for City Arts.

No, not quite, with all due respect to Somerset Maugham, but something of an overview of Ethan Stiefel’s ballet career that I wrote for Playbill.  You can read it on online at Playbillarts.com.   Or better still you can read it … Continue reading →

For City Arts , I write about Angel Corella leaving ABT on a peak note, and Isadora Duncan’s still-going-strong 100-year-old choreography.

If you’re interested in Anna Liceica and the Joffrey Ballet and/or in Natalia Makarova and 1917 movies about Russian ballet dancers, well, you’ve come to the right place.

We know how I love old theaters. . . . And walking out of the Radisson Hotel, if you turn left, a three minute walk takes you to the Opera House, which has certainly housed many stellar attractions, but I guess … Continue reading →

A week ago Saturday I was in Manchester, UK, after finishing up a walking tour through Yorkshire and the Lake District.  I was flying back to NYC early the following morning.  I’d spent an afternoon in Manchester a week earlier, prior to … Continue reading →

Over the past decade, screenings by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Museum of Modern Art have supplied a fascinating exposure to the annals of Soviet cinema. For Capital New York, I review … Continue reading →

City Arts coined a much better one than what I’d thought of for my Sylvie Guillem review!