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NYCB Vol. 16. No. 1 - Gjon Mili and His Stroboscopic Images
NYCB's 2025-26 advertising campaign by Thibaut Grevet seems to have been inspired by Gjon Mili's stroboscopic images from the 20th...

Lauryn Johnson
Sep 14


NYCB Vol. 11 No. 16 - Interplay
(L-R) Harold Lang, Tommy Rall, Janet Reed, Melissa Hayden [lifted], John Kriza [lifting], Muriel Bentley, Fernando Alonso, Roszika Sabo....

Lauryn Johnson
May 8, 2024


NYCB Vol. 11 No. 15 - Interplay
Jerome Robbins choreographed Interplay in 1945, not for ABT, but for Billy Rose's 'Concert Varieties.' "Stirred by dim memories of the...

Lauryn Johnson
May 7, 2024


NYCB Vol. 8 No. 17 - Piano Concerto No. 2
'Ballet Imperial' was choreographed in 1941 for American Ballet Caravan's South American tour. It was thought that a classical ballet...

Lauryn Johnson
Oct 6, 2023


National Piano Day
“Mr. B used to close up the pianos in the theater or the studios before leaving. He would always clean up the pianos, take away the...

Lauryn Johnson
Mar 28, 2023


NYCB Vol. 5 No. 34 - Nutcracker
[34/50] Just like all the students at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, Alexandra Danilova and George Balanchine performed in...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 20, 2022
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