There seems to be a change in the ABT casting for the new Ratmansky dance but the ABT website and the Koch Theater website don't jibe. According to ABT's calendar, the premiere tonight will be danced by Christine Shevchenko and Calvin Royal with a repeat at the Saturday matinee. However, the Koch Theater's website is showing that they will dance all of the performances. -- none danced by Boylston and Lendorf. Given the fact that Hammoudi has replaced Lendorf in the first performance of Symposium, we deduce that Lendorf is injured - again, or still. And so it goes...
If Shevchenko and Royal are going to dance all of the performances of the new Ratmansky, it might be worth taking a chance on one of their dates if there is even one other ballet on the program that is worth seeing with a full cast that is also worth seeing. It will be hard to find, but we may make the effort. At least that's what our tired brain is thinking at 4:30am as we rumble along Amtrak's rails up the Northeast corridor from Washington.
The Koch Theater's website doesn't even jibe with itself; the PDF version of the casting linked there, updated yesterday ( https://davidhkochtheater.com/DHKT/media/DHKT/ABT/Casting%20PDF/FA17-Casting-101717.pdf ), matches the current ABT calendar (as far as the new Ratmansky piece is concerned). Overall, the PDF versions tend to match the ABT calendar much more closely than the cast listings on the various "Purchase Tickets" pages on the Koch website, which can be very sloppy--dates sometimes missing, listed more than once, etc.
As of Monday, Lendorf was also replaced by Gorak in Symphonic Variations (at both the Saturday matinee and the Sunday matinee according to ABT's calendar but Saturday only according to the Koch PDF), and he was replaced by Maloney in Souvenir d'un lieu cher (which also appears to have been the case at the recent Fall for Dance performances of that piece at City Center).
Posted by: CMM | October 18, 2017 at 09:46 AM
Hey, Haglund. Thanks for the heads up about this. I also noticed that on ABT's website, Gorak has replaced Lendorf in his performances of Symphonic Variations, as well. The Koch website still lists Lendorf as dancing it on Oct. 22, though.
While I wish Lendorf a speedy recovery (if he's in fact not well), I'm very glad to be able to see Gorak in the non-Misty cast of Symphonic Variations!
Posted by: fondoffouettes | October 18, 2017 at 10:24 AM
Lendorf has just been replaced by G. Shayer on the ABT calendar. Opposite Boylston. Saturday Matinee looks least offensive among the options to see Shevchenko/Royal.
Posted by: Kallima | October 18, 2017 at 11:13 AM
Thanks, Kallima. Too bad it's not Gabe with Skylar. How cleanly balletic, coordinated, and un-dumpy that would be -- not to mention it would sell more tickets.
Posted by: Haglund | October 18, 2017 at 11:28 AM
Thanks CMM and FoF for noticing the additional changes and the fact that the Koch website sometimes doesn't jibe with itself.
Posted by: Haglund | October 18, 2017 at 11:30 AM
Hi Haglund,
I attended ABT's Fall Gala, and while I'm certainly more of a story ballet kind of gal, I really enjoyed the evening. Ratmansky's Songs of Bukovina is definitely worth seeing, in my opinion. I also liked Thirteen Diversions, as well as The Gift (which, unfortunately, won't be performed again).
Posted by: B | October 20, 2017 at 11:21 PM