by Gigi | Jul 22, 2024 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
July 13 2024 7:30 evening Boosted by the music of Jonathan Dove, Michael Zev Gordon, Ottorino Respighi, Aldemaro Romeo, and William Grant, Amy Hall Garner’s Underneath, there is Light is a thrilling ballet. The well-designed costumes of Marc Happel—the women in airy... 
by Gigi | Jun 8, 2024 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
Stanley Laracey and Taylor Stanley, SYMPHONY IN THREE MOVEMENTS All images courtesy NYCB (photo credits: Erin Baiano) NYCB has a lot to celebrate this year. Three ballet masterpieces. SCÈNES DE BALLET Christopher Wheeldon’s Scènes de Ballet is wonderfully nostalgic, a... 
by Gigi | May 1, 2024 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
Featured image: Peter Boal as a student, courtesy Peter Boal Edward Villella, mid-air leap, in costume for his role as the Peppermint Stick in Tschaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” as performed by the New York City Ballet at City Center (LOC Archives)... 
by Gigi | Oct 13, 2023 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
Featured Image—Symphony in C with Morgan Fairchild and Joseph Gordon Photo: Erin Baiano WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 8:00 PM The October 11, 2023 Anniversary Program mirrored the inaugural one 75 years earlier. Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco displayed the poetry,... 
by Gigi | Oct 12, 2023 | Dance, Finding Balance blog
All photos, courtesy of NYCB. Featured Photo, Indiana Woodward in Serenade. Photo: Erin Baiano TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 7:30 PM Serenade, an early Balanchine ballet, famously begins with the dramatic chords of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings and hand gestures...