City Ballet opened its London season on Wednesday with a triple bill of central Balanchine ballets — “Serenade,” “Agon,” “Symphony in C” — and at once London dancegoers began complaining of, yes, all those same old things. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In 1972, the senior British dance critic Mary Clarke, while visiting New York, found herself listening to two dancegoers engaged in comparing New York City Ballet to the two leading Russian ballet companies, the Kirov and the Bolshoi. ❋ Unknown (2008)
True, these three ballets are now aspects of Balanchine very familiar to British dancegoers. ❋ Unknown (2008)
New York City Ballet opened its season at the London Coliseum on Wednesday with a program of three Balanchine ballets London dancegoers have often seen danced by the Royal Ballet: “Serenade,” “Agon” and “Symphony in C.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
The tallest female principal dancer in Royal Ballet history, with a strong and handsome face, Ms. Yanowsky also dances Balanchine roles like the Siren in “The Prodigal Son” and the “Agon” pas de deux, in which many London dancegoers prefer her to Ms. Bussell. ❋ Unknown (2008)
They are fairly well drilled: the dancers all do the same step on the same beat (this is what some London dancegoers miss in New York City Ballet), and they all show the same understanding of “unbroken” wrists (which most London dancegoers would welcome in City Ballet). ❋ Unknown (2008)
Now, when the Royal Ballet dances a good deal of Balanchine itself and New York City Ballet presents a program of “Serenade,” “Agon,” and “Symphony in C,” a few London dancegoers can claim that the Royal dances all three ballets better than City Ballet. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Music, three years ago, it has become a cultish annual ritual for certain dancegoers. ❋ By ROSLYN SULCAS (2011)
It has become an annual ritual for some dancegoers. ❋ By ROSLYN SULCAS (2011)
Some dancegoers decry America's annual affinity for Tchaikovsky's ballet. ❋ By ALASTAIR MACAULAY (2011)
New York's dancegoers are learning to use a new name ❋ By ALASTAIR MACAULAY (2011)
She will reprise her original role, which, for many dancegoers underlines her status as America's greatest contemporary ballerina. ❋ By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO (2012)
Over the decades thousands of dancegoers have learned to think the same; many might agree that Balanchine's "Nutcracker" is actually more expressively diverse, more theatrically rich, than the extreme modernism of "Agon" or "Episodes" or his Stravinsky masterpieces of the 1960s and '70s. ❋ By ALASTAIR MACAULAY (2011)
