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Pina Bausch is on the cover; inside you’ll find my interview with great ex-New York City Ballet ballerina Patricia Wilde.  This first installment covers the period prior to the time she joined City Ballet in 1950, aged twenty-two.  As she describes, Wilde had already had … Continue reading →

You’ve only got two more days to catch the “Youthquake” exhibit, which I reviewed for City Arts.

Ib Andersen doesn’t like it.  Neither do I.

That would be the work of Noël Coward.  Read my lean and sinewy review for Capital New York of the Library for the Performing Arts’ exhibit, “Star Quality.”   He had it.

Well I think there is.   And I said some things for Capital New York.

What with Gerald Finley’s Don Giovanni at the Met, (not to mention the recital he gave Feb. 27 at Alice Tully) and Olga Borodina on the same stage taking up her career-defining role of Marfa in Khovanshchina, New York right now … Continue reading →

I wrote about her haunting story for Capital New York.

Read my City Arts piece on how New York City Ballet’s ballerinas got themselves into the right positions, and then we’ll discuss the way Kirov ballerina Inna Zubkovskaya (1923-2001) still knew how to do the same age seventy-plus.

At twenty-two, Royal Ballet principal dancer Sergei Polunin has quit the RB and sems to be having some kind of breakdown.  Recently he has complained to friends about unbearable career pressure.  Frankly, ever since I first read about Polunin he has struck me … Continue reading →

Singing Maurizio in Adriana, Kaufmann’s acting consisted of him doing things like holding his score up in front of him to show that his character was sneaking off stealthily from the scene.  And he did a lot of embracing of … Continue reading →