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NYCB Vol. 13 No. 17 - Nutcracker
[17/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Dan Duell who was...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 12, 2024


NYCB Vol. 11 No. 7 - Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet
Balanchine's Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet recieved lukewarm reviews when it premiered: "Naturally enough, there are moments--and already I...

Lauryn Johnson
Apr 28, 2024


NYCB Vol. 10 No. 7 - The Four Seasons
The beginning of Jerome Robbins’ ‘The Four Seasons’ introduces Janus the god of new beginnings, in this case representing the new year....

Lauryn Johnson
Jan 30, 2024


NYCB Vol. 3 No. 35 - The Four Seasons - Spring
I first saw Four Seasons during the Robbins 100 Festival in 2018. I have two favorite parts of this ballet, and the moment in the first...

Lauryn Johnson
May 18, 2022


NYCB Vol. 3 No. 33 - Piano Pieces
Piano Pieces was choreographed by Jerome Robbins for the Tchaikovsky Festival in 1981. Prior to that, Robbins had never presented...

Lauryn Johnson
May 17, 2022


NYCB Vol. 3 No. 7 - Goldberg Variations
“I like to see bodies in movement in time and in space. And to see the relationships between them. See what happens between people...

Lauryn Johnson
Apr 23, 2022


NYCB Vol. 1 No. 32 & 33 - Nutcracker
Okay how cute is this: this is a dual post covering Nutcrackers 32 and 33. This post highlights brothers Joseph and Daniel Duell. (Duell...

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 22, 2021
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