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NEW YORK CITY BALLET
NEW YORK STATE THEATER, LINCOLN CENTER NEW YORK, NY NOV 25, 2003-FEB 29, 2004
From its opening night winter gala onwards, through the customary Nutcracker, to the closing two week bombardment of The Sleeping Beauty, New York City Ballet's winter season was hardly business as usual. The entire 2003/04 season is to be dedicated to the centenary of the company's founder. George Balanchine, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on January 22, 1904, with this first segment dealing with Balanchine's origins and roots.
The company presented all three of the full-evening Tchaikovsky classics, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker, plus Coppelia and a fresh revival of Harlequinade, together with a selection of early Balanchine, and even an ill-judged staging of Michel Fokine's Chopiniana. However, the two major events of this winter season were the world premiere of Susan Stroman's full-evening work Double Feature, and a redesigned staging of Balanchine's 1967 masterpiece Jewels.
Stroman's piece is actually two contrasted ballets combined into one seamless entertainment, and it has all the quality and look...
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