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RODEO: FOUR DANCE EPISODES (Third and Fourth Episodes)
Brittany Pollack, *Justin Peck, Daniel Ulbricht, Gonzalo Garcia, Andrew Veyette
Conductor: Andrews Sill. Filmed on 5/11/2017.
PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION (Excerpt):
Tuileries: Tiler Peck
Bydlo: Sterling Hyltin, Sara Mearns, Claire Kretzschmar, Abi Stafford
Promenade: Gonzalo Garcia
Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks: Tyler Angle, Gonzalo Garcia, Joseph Gordon, Aaron Sanz*, Andrew Veyette*
Solo Pianist: Stephen Gosling. Filmed on 5/10/2017.
YEAR OF THE RABBIT (Year of Our Lord pas de deux)
Indiana Woodward, Taylor Stanley
Conductor: Daniel Capps. Filmed on 1/25/2018.
POLYPHONIA (Excerpt):
IX.: Lauren Lovette*, Andrew Veyette*
X.: Lauren Lovette*, Megan Fairchild*, Alston Macgill*, Sara Mearns, Andrew Veyette*, Jovani Furlan*, Roman Mejia*, Silas Farley*
Solo Pianists: Stephen Gosling, Alan Moverman. Filmed on 1/30/2020.
RUSSIAN SEASONS (Excerpt):
IX.: Abi Stafford, Sara Mearns, Amar Ramasar
Conductor: Andrews Sill; Solo Violinist: Arturo Delmoni; Soprano: Veronica Mitina. Filmed on 2/1/2018.
X.: Taylor Stanley*
Conductor: Andrew Litton; Solo Violinist: Kurt Nikkanen. Filmed on 4/26/2017.
MERCURIAL MANOEUVRES (Pas de deux)
Tiler Peck, Tyler Angle
Conductor: Andrew Litton, Solo Pianist: Alan Moverman. Filmed on 4/25/2017.
EVERYWHERE WE GO (Finale)
Maria Kowroski, Sara Mearns*, Indiana Woodward*, Teresa Reichlen, Russell Janzen, Taylor Stanley*, Gonzalo Garcia
Conductor: Daniel Capps. Filmed on 10/3/2019.
Haglund, thanks. I couldn’t help but notice that Amar Ramasar is being given some on-air time, in the Russian Seasons excerpt. A first since the NYCB COVID digital seasons began?
Posted by: Jeannette | October 20, 2020 at 06:17 AM
True, this is Amar's first appearance. I think tonight marks the first appearances of Daniel Ulbricht and Russell Janzen, too.
Posted by: Haglund | October 20, 2020 at 06:47 AM
Didn’t Janzen dance the male lead, opposite Mearns, in the film of Diamonds last May? Ulbricht might have been in the film of Peck’s Rotunda, also during the digital spring season...I could swear that I saw him in something...but not Ramasar til now.
By the way, the panda is walking/wobbling. Big early-morning TV news here.
Posted by: Jeannette | October 20, 2020 at 07:22 AM
True. I guess I was just thinking about the fall digital season.
Yes! The cub is on all fours -- just not at the same time. His front legs can whirl him around in a circle, and his back legs, while usually in a perfect second position split, can propel him into the hay. Mei Xiang took the cub on a little field trip on Sunday from the den to the entrance of her condo. Those pandas have more real estate and yard space than most millionaire New Yorkers.
Posted by: Haglund | October 20, 2020 at 07:31 AM
Wasn’t it lovely? However, it seems as if we got more complete ballets last spring.
In the meantime, I enjoyed a rare look at “recent ABT” in complete ballets last night, through the July 2029 “ABT at Vail” program consisting of Whiteside’s “New American Romance,” Tharp’s “Sinatra Suite” (Herman Cornejo w/ Luciana Paris!), Petipa’s Don Q pdd (Hurlin/Bell!) and Tudor’s “Lilac Garden” (Teuscher, Stearns, Zhurbin and Schevchenko! Did I say Schevchenko??!!). Beautifully filmed in high-def. I donated a while back for access. I actually loved this more than the earlier, low-definition 2007 Manon.
Posted by: Jeannette | October 22, 2020 at 05:56 AM
Oops - I meant to write July 2019 about the ABT Vail film...not 2029!
Posted by: Jeannette | October 22, 2020 at 05:58 AM
Wheeldon's Mercurial Manoeuvres PdD was gorgeous - as is the whole ballet - and was the only piece that worked as an excerpt. Pictures at an Exhibition suffered greatly because the scenery was excluded. Once you have to focus on the dancers' choreography without the scenic choreography, it all starts to look arbitrary. I could tolerate only a few seconds of Peck's ballets, particularly when he was dancing in them. I simply cannot believe that he was ever made a soloist.
I've always thought that Wheeldon has the broadest stylistic intelligence of the living choreographers we see on our stages. He's had his bloopers, surely, but the body of work so far has to be admired. I didn't particularly enjoy his PdD which he devised for David Hallberg and Sarah Mearns for NY City Center's Fall for Dance and which premiered last evening. She was able to pull off her insubstantial solo with some style (and looked fabulous in the low bun) but Hallberg honestly seemed like he was aiming for some kind of Boss Baby Brody interpretation. And the pajamas...🙄
Posted by: Haglund | October 22, 2020 at 08:07 AM