Coming up from NYCB on their website, YouTube channel, and Facebook page:
April 21 8PM -- Allegro Brilliante w/Tiler Peck and Andrew Veyette filmed on January 18, 2017
April 24 8PM -- Rotunda (Justin Peck) w/Sara Mearns, Miriam Miller, Sara Adams, Claire Kretzschmar, Brittany Pollack, Unity Phelan, Gonzalo Garcia, Andrew Scordato, Adrian Danchig-Waring, Daniel Ulbricht, Jovani Furlan, Gilbert Bolden III filmed on February 26, 2020
April 28 8PM -- Apollo w/ Taylor Stanley, Tiler Peck, Brittany Pollack, and Indiana Woodward filmed on January 22, 2019
May 1 8PM -- Ballo Della Regina w/Megan Fairchild and Anthony Huxley filmed on May 12, 2016; After the Rain w/Wendy Whelan and Craig Hall filmed on May 12, 2016
Each performance will be available online for 72 hours. NYCB intends to present performance videos each Tuesday and Friday for six weeks.
Other podcasts and Instagram programing described here.
Hopefully this is a first, though very small step toward NYCB acquiring full use rights to its corporate product. The near-disaster of the recent 25th Anniversary Disney on Broadway stream in which a musicians' union tried to derail re-streaming of the benefit concert raised public anti-union sentiment considerably. It's past time for the unions to get out of the way when it comes to digital rights. Some NYCB dancers are currently giving digital classes wherein they teach and espouse Balanchine Technique. Are these dancers paying anything to the Balanchine Foundation or SAB or NYCB for permission to offer that technique and those exercises to students online? It's doubtful.
More than a few of the dancers live in a style that many of their ticketbuying fans could only dream about. Some dancers make so much money that they won't even qualify for a stimulus check and continue drawing their NYCB wages and benefits during New York on Pause. So when we hear cries of poor from the big dance world in New York during this particular crisis, let's put it into perspective. Where is the real need right now?
https://www.foodbanknyc.org/donate/
https://www.newyorkcares.org/ways-to-give
Stay safe.
Great news!
Posted by: Shawn | April 20, 2020 at 04:06 PM
Haglund, I almost fell off my stool as I read this! Finally! Apparently the Paul Taylor Company has announced something similar. We already know about San Fco’s generosity, airing one complete new ballet per week. Now we need ABT to step up to the plate...and we don’t mean 30-second clips taken from the wings during rehearsals.
Posted by: Jeannette | April 20, 2020 at 07:53 PM
I really don't expect ABT to do anything.
Posted by: Haglund | April 20, 2020 at 08:46 PM
Neither do I, Haglund. Wouldn’t it be cool if, say, a “house cam” film from Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa would be available to webstream the premiere of Ratmansky’s OF LOVE AND RAGE to the world? They could do it on the date of the intended Met opening in early June. Imagine the good will and publicity that this would bring the company...and the stars of that premiere, Catherine Hurlin and Aran Bell? It was a performance to be proud of; I know - I was there. Back to reality...three cheers for NYCB! I’ll be popping the popcorn tonight.
Posted by: Jeannette | April 21, 2020 at 06:01 AM
Tiler Peck was on fire, wow! Talk about making difficult look easy.
Posted by: Shawn | April 22, 2020 at 10:32 AM
So true! I was in the audience that night. What a thrill to be able to re-live it several times.
Posted by: Haglund | April 22, 2020 at 11:16 AM
Loved Tiler Peck and the ballet!! I will watch this again today. I only saw her once in person when Daniel Ulbricht's group came to Kansas City. These videos are so appreciated!
Posted by: Georgiann | April 22, 2020 at 12:02 PM
Wonderful performance of Allegro by all dancers on the stage!
NYCB, San Fco and ENB in London are true champions for uploading new content consisting of complete works not before seen in other media (such as the big European and Russian companies streaming what has already been seen via cinemas, live-streams or DVDs). What NYCB, SFB and ENB are so generously showing is 100% new content of complete ballets. Extraordinary!
Posted by: Jeannette | April 22, 2020 at 07:19 PM
Great stuff we're seeing! The ENB Broken Wings is quite an inventive theatrical piece -- another collaboration between Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and theater director Nancy Meckler. Mukhamedov as Kahlo's husband Diego Rivera is not "marking" anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC4PWGhrwsc
Posted by: Haglund | April 22, 2020 at 08:10 PM
Tyler is one of the best out there, no only for her talent, her generosity in and outside the stage and her hard work ( perform swan lake after a crazy injure and did 32 fuettes, when she had the only possible excuse to change the coda, she did not!!!!!!) .... but also she seems to be one of the perfect heiress of Balanchine, her NYCB and SAB teachers and her long time collaboration with Heather and Demian, seems like all her talent and dedication also have the love for art and dance of two generation before her. She and her dancing is perfect light in this dark times.
Thanks Tyler and the coches behind her.
Posted by: Dancelover | April 26, 2020 at 12:55 AM