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Stella Abrera will be Calliope to Roberto Bolle's Apollo with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall on November  27th, 28th and 29th in a program entitled Dudamel & Bolle. Devon Teuscher and Hee Seo will dance Polyhymnia and Terpsichore. Subscriptions go on sale April 7th, and single ticket sales begin on August 23rd.

Meanwhile, Down Under in Sydney – Come on H.H. Team 6 B.A.D, what's going on down there?!

 

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West Siders in Manhattan are very excited about the anticipated takeover of the Whitney Museum of American Art from the East Side. Our new Whitney, another curious design by Italian starchitect Renzo Piano, opens on May 1st. It certainly looks better than the Pez Candy Dispenser that Piano designed for the new NYT headquarters, doesn't it?

The museum sits between the Hudson River and The High Line in Chelsea's Meatpacking District. It will include 50,000 square feet of indoor gallery space and 13,000 square feet of outdoor exhibition space that faces the High Line.

All of the construction workers get a free year's membership to the museum.

Next up for the West Side's development is our new Culture Shed which we reported about on the blog two years ago. Since then, excitement has picked up and there is even a Wikipedia entry for it. Foundation work is already underway, and full construction will begin very soon.

The new artistic director of the Culture Shed is Alex Poots. He is the Founding Artistic Director of the Manchester International Festival in the UK and the acting Artistic Director of the Park Avenue Armory here in Manhattan.

The Culture Shed has the beginnings of a website, and now is the time to bookmark it.

 

Comments

[J]

Already have a ticket for the Dudamel and Bolle performance due through season tickets. Thank you for letting us know who the muses are.

[Haglund]

I believe that this might be the first performance of Seo as Terpsichore. I recall that she has only danced Polyhymnia in ABT performances during which those turns that end in arabesque with the finger to the mouth were quite troublesome.

I suppose it's possible that Apollo might be included in ABT's fall season which precedes this LA Phil date.