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NYCB Vol. 13 No. 16 - Nutcracker
[16/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Dana Hanson who...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 11, 2024


NYCB Vol. 13 No. 15 - Nutcracker
[15/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Tim Fox who...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 10, 2024


NYCB Vol. 13. No. 14 - Nutcracker
[14/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Kim Kokich who...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 8, 2024


NYCB Vol. 13 No. 13 - Nutcracker
[13/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Viki Bromberg...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 8, 2024


NYCB Vol. 13 No. 11 & 12 - Nutcracker
[11/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Suzy Pilarre, a...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 7, 2024


NYCB Vol. 13 No. 10 - Nutcracker
[10/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from KJ Takahashi, a...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 6, 2024


NYCB Vol. 13 No. 9 - Nutcracker
[9/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Diana White, who...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 5, 2024


NYCB Vol. 13 No. 7 & 8 - Nutcracker
Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Robert LaFosse, who was...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 4, 2024


NYCB Vol. 13 No. 6 - Nutcracker
[6/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Sara Adams, a...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 3, 2024


NYCB Vol. 13 No. 4 & 5 - Nutcracker
Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Continuing from Maria Calegari’s stories...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 1, 2024


NYCB Vol. 13 No. 2 & 3 - Nutcracker
[2/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Our next story come from former...

Lauryn Johnson
Nov 30, 2024


IIOD Podcast Vol. 2 No. 3 - Theara Ward on Arthur Mitchell
In this episode, Theara discusses her early career in the Dance Theatre of Harlem under Arthur Mitchell and how that experience prepared...

Lauryn Johnson
Oct 23, 2024


NYCB Vol. 12 No. 8 - Mozartiana
Robert Maiorano wrote a book Balanchine’s Mozartiana: The Making of a Masterpiece in which he documented just that—the making of this...

Lauryn Johnson
Oct 12, 2024


NYCB Vol. 12 No. 7 - Movements for Piano and Orchestra
In his autobiography I Was a Dancer , Jacques d’Amboise recounts how Balanchine’s Movements for Piano and Orchestra came to be: “Diana...

Lauryn Johnson
Oct 4, 2024


NYCB Vol. 12 No. 6 - Mozartiana
From Alexandra Danilova'a memoir: “I wanted so much to dance [Ballet Imperial], but I didn’t; this second time he appointed Mary Ellen...

Lauryn Johnson
Oct 2, 2024


NYCB Vol. 12 No. 4 - Ballet Imperial
Edwin Denby, the poet and dance critic wrote the following about Balanchine’s ‘Ballet Imperial’ [Now Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto no. 2] as...

Lauryn Johnson
Sep 27, 2024


NYCB Vol. 12 No. 4 - Monumentum Pro Gesualdo
Monumentum Pro Gesualdo was choreographed by Balanchine in 1960 for Diana Adams and Conrad Ludlow. “Walking is the key movement,...

Lauryn Johnson
Sep 24, 2024


NYCB Vol. 12 No. 2 - Baiser de la Fée
Balanchine’s Divertimento from “Le Baiser de la Fée” Nancy Reynolds: “Balanchine’s gift for choreographing to the strength of his dancers...

Lauryn Johnson
Sep 19, 2024


NYCB & SPAC - Swan Lake
NYCB closes their Saratoga season with Stars and Stripes and Swan Lake tonight. Here are some Saratoga memories from each of these...

Lauryn Johnson
Jul 13, 2024


NYCB & SPAC No. 4 - Coppélia Premiere
This year Saratoga Performing Arts Center is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Balanchine’s “Coppélia,” which debuted here in Saratoga...

Lauryn Johnson
Jul 12, 2024
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