Reminder: Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema presents a livestream of Jewels this Sunday, January 23rd. Check this website for the cinemas in your area that will carry the broadcast on Sunday or perhaps later in the week. Full casting is listed in the post below.
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We're fairly excited about some of the cast offerings coming up during the first two weeks of NYCB's winter season. A second-week Rubies cast that includes double debuts of Tiler Peck and Isabella LaFreniere is irresistible. We'll also happily revisit Emily Kikta's Rubies tall girl during the first week. If we're lucky, maybe later on we'll also get to see Mira Nadon reprise the role. It's safe to say that NYCB's Rubies tall girl role is in pretty spectacular hands (& legs) for the foreseeable future.
Ashley Laracey and Harrison Coll will perform The Unanswered Question from Balanchine's Ivesiana during the second week. We fondly recall Ashley in the ballet's first section, Central Park in the Dark, and look forward to seeing her in the spooky role which we last saw Janie Taylor interpret. Balanchine's avant-garde ideas in 1954 still tower over what today's so-called contemporary choreographers try to hard-sell to the public. He continues to be groundbreaking.
We can't wait to see the match-up of Emma Von Enck and Roman Mejia during the second week of DGV. These two have been flitting around each other in corps ensembles for a couple of years, and we've been waiting for them to collide in something. Each artist emits megawatts of theatrical electricity, and their debuts together in this ballet will surely spark & crackle. There will be many other fabulous principal debuts in this ballet which we are looking forward to as well.
Tiler Peck and Harrison Ball will debut in Mozartiana. Here's hoping for the subtlety that this ballet deserves but which eludes certain NYCB over-interpreted performances. We've been reflecting on how nice it might be to see Ashley Laracey or Mira Nadon leading a Mozartiana.
Let's get this show on the road. We've been stuck in Park for way too long.
What an exciting Rubies cast! I cannot wait.
Although the one or two times that I have seen Peck and Huxley dance together, I felt very little chemistry.
Posted by: yukionna | January 21, 2022 at 01:39 PM