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Category Archives: American Ballet Theatre
A Taste of Home: 5 Recipes by Ballerina Melissa Hayden
Through the Ballet Cook Book Dinner Series — gatherings featuring meals made from recipes in Tanaquil Le Clercq’s cookbook — New York City Ballet soloist Antonio Carmena, baker extraordinaire Susan LaRosa, and I are embarking on a kind of time … Continue reading
Posted in American Ballet Theatre, Ballet, Ballet Cook Book Dinner Series, Food, George Balanchine, New York City Ballet
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antonio Carmena, Ballet Cook Book, Ballet Cook Book Dinner Series, chicken wings, cookbook, cooking, Eastern European food, Eastern European Jewish food, food, fruit compote, Jacques d'Amboise, Jeff Gageby, Jewish cooking, Jewish food, Lincoln Kirstein, Melissa Hayden, Meryl Rosofsky, Michael Pereira, Mildred Herman, Paul Epstein, potato latkes, Radio City Music Hall, recipes, Ryan Wenzel, Stars and Stripes, Stuart Coleman, stuffed cabbage, sweet and sour meatballs, Tanaquil Le Clercq
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Ballet Cook Book Dinner on April 13 Will Feature Recipes by New York City Ballet Great Melissa Hayden
The next gathering of the Ballet Cook Book Dinner Series, to be held the evening of Saturday, April 13, 2013, will showcase the recipes of Melissa Hayden, the celebrated Canadian-born ballerina who danced for both New York City Ballet and … Continue reading
Posted in American Ballet Theatre, Ballet, Ballet Cook Book Dinner Series, Food, George Balanchine, New York City Ballet
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, ABT, American Ballet Theatre, Balanchine, Ballet Cook Book Dinner Series, Cortège Hongrois, George Balanchine, Melissa Hayden, New York City Ballet, NYCB, School of American Ballet, Stars and Stripes, Stuart Coleman, The Ballet Cook Book
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Two Takes on Shakespeare: Balanchine’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ & Frederick Ashton’s ‘The Dream’
Balletomanes, an argumentative bunch, are always making judgments by way of comparison. They might debate whether George Balanchine’s or Michel Fokine’s is the better Firebird, whether Gillian Murphy or Sara Mearns is New York’s best Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, or … Continue reading
Posted in American Ballet Theatre, Ballet, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Lincoln Center, New York City Ballet
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Alina Cojocaru, American Ballet Theatre, Athalie, Bottom, Felix Mendelssohn, Firebird, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Giselle, Herman Cornejo, Hermia, Hippolyta, Joaquin de Luz, Lysander, Maria Kowroski, New York City Ballet, Oberon, Odette, Odile, Puck, Royal Ballet, Sara Mearns, Scherzo, Swan Lake, The Dream, The First Walpurgis Night, Theseus, Titania, William Shakespeare
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Romanticism Revealed: Some Belated Thoughts on Alina Cojocaru & Natalia Osipova in ABT’s “Giselle”
A product of the Romantic Era, Giselle is supposed to be a ballet about uncontrollable passion. Originally choreographed for the Paris Opéra Ballet in 1841 by Jean Corelli and Jules Perrot, and set to a score by Adolphe Adam, the … Continue reading
Posted in American Ballet Theatre, Lincoln Center
Tagged ABT, Adolphe Adam, Albrecht, Alina Cojocaru, American Ballet Theatre, Angel Corella, Aurora, David Hallberg, Giselle, Jean Corelli, Jules Perrot, Mikhailovsky Theatre, Myrtha, Natalia Osipova, Paris Opera Ballet, Romantic ballet, Romantic Era, Royal Ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, Wilis
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