ABT brings old favorites and new thrills to Lincoln Center Following up on their whopping eight-week season at the Metropolitan Opera House this summer, American Ballet Theatre is back at Lincoln Center, this time at the David H. Koch Theater, with two weeks of mixed repertory programs. Kurt Jooss’s anti-war masterpiece The Green Table (with Marcelo Gomes…
Dear Readers, I launched Point of Contact on October 16, 2013 as a way to supplement and practice my dance writing for a course I was taking in Barnard College’s Dance Department. My original goal was to create a virtual record of my experience as an audience member, but after seeing hundreds of performances, work-in-progress showings,…
75 Years of American Ballet Theatre The first days of American Ballet Theatre’s 8-week season at the Metropolitan Opera House is all about celebrating the company’s 75-year history. They’ll perform some of the most beloved works in their repertory, including George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations and Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo, for this week of mixed-bill…
Out of the hundreds of tweets that flood my Twitter feed daily, I was lucky enough last Wednesday afternoon to catch a 140-character dance battle developing before my eyes. The exchange, between venerable New York City-based dance critic Claudia La Rocco, student blogger Alexandra Villarreal, and eventually, Katherine Brooks, Senior Arts & Culture Editor of…
