Pennsylvania Ballet opens its 10-day digital season with an outstanding selection of classical, contemporary, and premiere ballets. It's free, but you have to register so that they can email you the Vimeo link (there might be a delay with that email even though they say it will be sent shortly):
Look at this lineup!
Connection
Available June 19 – 26
Choreography by Juliano Nunes
Music by Ezio Bosso
Don Quixote
Available June 20 – July 20
Choreography by Angel Corella (after Petipa)
Music by Ludwig Minkus
Episode 31
Available June 21 – 28
Choreography by Alexander Ekman
Music by Mikael Karlsson, Ane Brun & Erik Satie
A Trace of Inevitability
Available June 22 – 29
Choreography by Yin Yue
Music by Michel Banabila
Rubies
Available June 23 – 30
Choreography by George Balanchine
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Giselle
Available June 24 – July 24
Choreography by Angel Corella (after Jean Coralli & Jules Perrot)
Music by Adolphe Adam
Trigger Touch Fade
Available June 25 – July 2
Choreography by Jorma Elo
Music by Franz Joseph Haydn & J.S. Bach
Glass Pieces
Available June 26 – July 3
Choreography by Jerome Robbins
Music by Philip Glass
I AM
Available June 27 – July 4
Documentary directed by Glenn Holsten
Featuring Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet II and Students of St. Katherine’s School
D.G.V.: Danse à Grand Vitesse
Available June 28 – July 5
Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
Music by Michael Nyman
The Front Row Festival will also feature a Q & A with Artistic Director Angel Corella and Preludes for each ballet, featuring Pennsylvania Ballet artists.
Can't wait!
Posted by: Shawn | June 19, 2020 at 11:48 AM
Thrilling! Thank you, Haglund.
Posted by: Eulalia Johnson | June 19, 2020 at 11:59 AM
I still haven't gotten my link which the confirmation page said would be sent shortly. Have either of you gotten one yet?
Posted by: Haglund | June 19, 2020 at 12:08 PM
Excellent! Practically every ballet company in the US except ______ has jumped on board the full-ballet streams wagon.
Posted by: Jeannette | June 19, 2020 at 12:50 PM
True, Jeannette. I want to see the Abrera/Shklyarov Giselle and the Noche Latina Le Corsaire when Grandpa Julio as Conrad charged out of the upstage corner and threw a triple tour assemble.
Posted by: Haglund | June 19, 2020 at 01:01 PM
Still no link after more than 24 hours.
Posted by: Shawn | June 19, 2020 at 02:21 PM
This is exciting! Registered! Thank you, Hagland!
Posted by: Georgiann | June 19, 2020 at 03:37 PM
Got the link!
Posted by: Shawn | June 19, 2020 at 05:58 PM
It's after 6:00 and still no link in sight at my end of town. This show is supposed to start at 6:30. I'm mixing up a pitcher of Arnold Palmers to go with my two single-serve cartons of Haagen-Dazs: Honey Salted Caramel Almond and Chocolate Chocolate Chip. Just trying to keep up with Jeannette...
6:25 still no link here. I see from the PA Ballet twitter account that Preludes begin at 6:30 and the performance begins at 7:30.
6:40 waiting...
7:05 ...
8:00 ...
Posted by: Haglund | June 19, 2020 at 06:04 PM
Oh, Haglund. If you could take the bullet train to DC, husband and I’d invite you over to watch on our comfy sofa...but only on the iPad propped up on the coffee table. No jumbo TV with Vimeo. I got my link around 6pm. Did you give the right email address?
Although not my favorite type of ballet - too much gymnastics and stretching, rather than dancing - it had beautiful movements and patterns performed by gorgeous dancers. Hard to complain. We’re grateful and looking forward to more from this company.
Posted by: Jeannette | June 19, 2020 at 09:12 PM
Yeah, I sent the correct email a couple of times. Still no link. At one point I saw a note on the PA Ballet website that every ticket buyer would automatically get the link. I've purchased a fair amount of tickets -- still, no link.
I suppose it will get ironed out eventually.
Thanks for the offer, Jeannette. I don't think I and my pitcher of Arnold Palmers can slosh our ways down the rails to D.C. to watch on an iPad. But oh my, they were tasty--the secret is in creating the perfect icy slush of lemonade.
Posted by: Haglund | June 19, 2020 at 09:42 PM
I hope many will agree with Old Hag that this company deserves our support right now. What a fabulous, flavorful performance of Don Q. Great dancing, great pace. Bravi.
Posted by: Haglund | June 20, 2020 at 08:21 PM
Just watched Giselle. Very impressed with the corps. Maslova was good but not the wow-brings-tears-to-your-eyes kind.. I guess once you see Sarah Lane, everyone tends to pale in comparison.
Nayara Lopes as Moyna or Zulma (which one is which? Well anyway one of the Lead Wilis) really sparkled. She’s destined for big things.
Some of the choreography In Act 2 was a head scratcher.
Posted by: Amy | June 24, 2020 at 08:39 PM
I thought Oksana's Giselle was lovely, melodic, highly technically secure, and conveyed Romantic softness. Sarah Lane's Giselle is beautiful but I would not say that everyone else's tends to pale in comparison--that's a rather provincial take on the large world of Giselles.
Nayara Lopes danced in the Peasant PdD and as Moyna in Act II.
I'm not sure to what choreography in Act II you were referring. There are probably a dozen versions of Giselle danced right now by major ballet companies that include variances on the variations and corps work. I didn't seen anything that looked out of place.
Yes, indeed, the corps was excellent in both acts.
Posted by: Haglund | June 24, 2020 at 09:13 PM