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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!

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.