Romeo and Juliet in Saratoga

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:53:13 GMT

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This July, Romeo and Juliet will be performed by New York City Ballet at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Diverse artistry thrives at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, the cultural hub of upstate New York, the Hudson Valley, Vermont, the Berkshires, Connecticut, and nearby Canada .

SPAC hosts the New York City Ballet and The Philadelphia Orchestra in an acoustically ideal amphitheatre in the heart of Spa State Park; presents superior chamber, jazz, rock and pop music, opera, Pre-Performance Talks, and Saratoga Wine & Food Festival; and oversees the National Museum of Dance.

Romeo and Juliet

(Prokofiev/Martins)

Thursday, July 5 at 8 p.m. – Behind the scenes of Romeo and Juliet. Dress rehearsal of Romeo and Juliet.

Friday, July 6 at 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 7 at 2 p.m.

Tuesday, July 10 at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, July 11 at 8 p.m.

10 Modern Classics

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:58:17 GMT

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"In the world of ballet we think of Lincoln Kirstein as the man who brought us Balanchine." - Peter Martins

As a 100th birthday present to Lincoln Kirstein, New York City Ballet opens the 2007 Spring Season with six performances featuring 10 extraordinary works by George Balanchine. Each ballet is set in Balanchine's signature black and white style, and each is a 20th century classic. With no two performances alike, this unforgettable week is a must-see for longtime fans, and a perfect introduction to Balanchine's work for those new to NYCB.

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Mission

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:41:10 GMT

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The Buzz

When the thrill of performance grabs an audience, the buzz starts before the curtain comes down. It takes hold before the audience leaves their seats. It starts the second patrons turn to their partners, seat-mates, or the stranger next to them to share a new discovery or special thrill. When the theater is buzzing, you can feel it.

Ballet is as fragile and as magical as a snowflake. It exists only when dancers are dancing and no two performances are ever alike. Blink and the moment melts away. Critics and dance writers extend the window of opportunity to catch these on-stage ?miracles of nature? as they call our attention to the best that New York City Ballet has to offer.

The end is almost in sight with less than a dozen performances remaining in the 2007 winter season. Don't let February slip away without seeing the 15 ballets by eight master choreographers still on view through February 25. Banish winter's chill with a visit to the New York State Theater.

Contemporary Quartet

...Feld's rhapsodic Intermezzo No. 1. Created to Brahms piano music for Feld's own company in 1969, it's today a modern classic, handsomely danced and well worth a permanent place in City Ballet's repertory.
- Clive Barnes, New York Post, 02/16/07

Intermezzo No. 1...offers a vision of ballet that is both slightly nostalgic and emotionally fresh.
-Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times, 02/12/07

Slice to Sharp...opens like the arms of a drawing compass, a striking image that is emblematic of the way Mr. Elo can shift the conventional into the surprising. ... the movement parallels the virtuosity of the solo violinists in its simultaneous combinations of slicing legs, ducking torsos, off-kilter balances and abstract gesture.
-Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times, 02/12/07

Jorma Elo's turbo-charged Slice to Sharp... is derived from street dance squiggles, and sometimes it's the entire body squiggling, as the dancers ricochet against the space or the same dancer's limbs seem to ricochet against each other.
-Joel Lobenthal, The New York Sun, 02/12/07

Friandises... The finale is also exhilarating, as one watches the entire 20-member cast turn into whizzing projectiles.
-Joel Lobenthal, The New York Sun, 02/12/07

Visionary Voices

Chief among those visions is Alexei Ratmansky's brilliant and moving Russian Seasons, created last summer for City Ballet to a vivid folkloric score by contemporary Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov. Its kaleidoscopic vignettes of life and love, and its humor and compassion, brought out special dramatic qualities in the cast...
-Clive Barnes, New York Post, 02/16/07

Concluding the program was Balanchine's The Four Temperaments, as visionary as it was when first danced in 1946 to a magnificent piece of music by Paul Hindemith.
-Joel Lobenthal, The New York Sun, 02/16-18/07

For the Fun of It

Each ballet was ravishing to look at, starting with Jerome Robbins' Circus Polka...
-Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times, 02/16/07

Walpurgisnacht Ballet ,,, is a perfect illustration of Balanchine's genius with patterning; lines of dancers dissolve kaleidoscopically into circles, then diamonds, then straight lines again, creating a flowering backdrop to the soloists.
-Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times, 02/16/07

...in Peter Martins' Jeu de Cartes, set to the Stravinsky score that the composer wrote for Balanchine in 1937, ... Mr. Martins has done a fine job of capturing its energy and shifts of melody and rhythm. ... The dancers in Ian Falconer's striking costumes - black or red suits of cards on white tutus and bodytights - create lovely geometries, either alone or behind the coquettish duos for the principal pairs. These pas de deux slightly skew classical steps into broken lines and syncopated accents with quirky flair.
-Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times, 02/16/07

Firebird... In 1970 the ballet received new costumes by Karinska, based on Chagall's designs. These are extraordinary; in the ensemble scenes the color compositions created by iridescent backdrops and vivid costumes are living artworks.
-Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times, 02/16/07

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