To those of you who check in regularly: Thank you, I’m honored. And I apologize for the lull here. <\/p>\n
I have a backlog of ballets I’m eager to respond to: Alexei Ratmansky’s incredible premiere for New York City Ballet; Michael Clark’s worthy Stravinsky nights at Lincoln Center Great Performances, too easily dismissed by the Times (the only paper to review it, I think); Tharp’s admirably epic and somehow opaque “Rabbit and Rogue” for American Ballet Theatre, also given a Times beating (I detect a pattern here); and some more thoughts on Robbins–how much he tells you by his dancers’ exits and entrances–as the Robbins festival at New York City Ballet continues. But I won’t let myself do any of that until I finish a pile of paying work. So, we’ll see how much you care by the time I get around to it. <\/p>\n
In the meantime–or in any case–check out regular Times contributor Claudia La Rocco’s omnivore blog The Culturist<\/a> on WNYC’s web site: interesting stuff. <\/p>\n And if you’re wanting some reflections on ballet while we’re in the midst of the spring season, here are a few pieces from the Foot vault: me on “Serenade”<\/a> (apropos of nothing, I know); and me on what can be done about ABT’s “The Sleeping Beauty.” <\/a>Perhaps they have done it! (It’s being reprised this month at the Met.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To those of you who check in regularly: Thank you, I’m honored. And I apologize for the lull here. I have a backlog of ballets I’m eager to respond to: Alexei Ratmansky’s incredible premiere for New York City Ballet; Michael Clark’s worthy Stravinsky nights at Lincoln Center Great Performances, too easily dismissed by the Times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}