Ethan Stiefel's 2012 season for the Royal New Zealand Ballet begins with a program called "NYC" – get it? It actually stands for New Young Classic and will be a program consisting of three short pieces from the Big Apple: a brand new work by Larry Keigwin, Millepied's 28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, and Balanchine's Who Cares. Next up will be Angelina Ballerina's Big Audition followed by Cinderella. Closing the season will be the new Stiefel/Kobborg production of Giselle with Gillian Murphy in the title role.
RNZB's handsome 2012 brochure is already up on its Facebook page and a YouTube video of Stiefel's 2012 announcement is loaded into its channel.
This is ambitious and has pizzazz. Wonder if they've penciled in a date yet for a Joyce Theater debut.
Bring in Stella Abrera as another principal dancer and they just might become a world class ballet company.
Posted by: Angelica Smith | September 29, 2011 at 10:11 PM
Yep. Add Sarah Lane. I haven't seen anything recently about Stella's Aurora at RNZB. Hope it's still going to happen for her. Like you, I'm still waiting for ABT's City Center casting - and the Bard and DC casting, too. Hope that they're not holding it back because it's awful and full of guest artists.
Posted by: Haglund | September 29, 2011 at 10:42 PM
I keep checking every day. But I know you'll get there first and I'm grateful for that!
Posted by: Angelica Smith | October 01, 2011 at 02:37 PM
LOL. There are a lot of people checking for the casting info on an almost minute to minute basis.
Posted by: Haglund | October 01, 2011 at 02:52 PM