Better the Next Time

by Leigh Witchel The “21st Century Choreography” was a sandwich with more substantial bread than meat. It featured a premiere … More

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by Leigh Witchel It’s quite a risk to remake not one, but three seminal American ballets scores by Aaron Copland. … More

by Leigh Witchel New York City Ballet’s opening All Balanchine program invited your eye to wander past center stage to … More

by Leigh Witchel The season at New York City Ballet was getting in gear with its second repertory program, and … More

by Leigh Witchel The first Classic NYCB program at New York City Ballet was a tale of three choreographers and … More

by Leigh Witchel Sterling Hyltin couldn’t have picked a better way to keep saying goodbye. Instead of one Hyltinathon performance, … More

by Leigh Witchel The All Stravinsky program at New York City Ballet was a varied mix: two Balanchine works, two … More

by Leigh Witchel It was probably impossible for Amar Ramasar’s retirement from New York City Ballet to avoid being a … More

by Leigh Witchel Russia straddles the east and the west, fitting perfectly into neither. Its rulers built an imperial capital … More

by Leigh Witchel Balanchine’s “Greek” trilogy, “Apollo,” “Orpheus,” and “Agon,” could be the most famous unplanned trio in ballet. Three … More