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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. 11 No. 3 - Bourrée Fantasque
In Balanchine's Bourrée Fantasque, Maria Tallchief was the second movement ballerina. She wrote, "Increasingly, the roles George created...

Lauryn Johnson
Apr 25, 2024


NYCB Vol 10. No. 1 - Fancy Free
"The world premiere given by Ballet Theater last night at the Metropolitan, was so big a hit that the young participants all looked a...

Lauryn Johnson
Jan 23, 2024


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 4 & 5 - Nutcracker
(4/50) You may (or may not) know that Janet Reed danced lead Marzipan in 1954 when Balanchine's Nutcracker premiered...but she wasn't the...

Lauryn Johnson
Nov 26, 2023


NYCB Vol. 1 No. 11 - Nutcracker
Janet Reed as Marzipan in the Nutcracker Frederick Melton, 1954. NYPL

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 5, 2021
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