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AlbertCat

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20. So...

Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:21 PM

Aug 2016

.... when's the last time you went to a ballet? .... that wasn't "Nutcracker"?

Support these amazing artists and go to the ballet! Often!

BTW... there's a great DVD of NYCB dancers doing Jerome Robbins' "NY Export: Opus Jazz"... a ballet he did about the same time as "West Side Story". The young cast dance the episodes in locations around NYC. (The pas de deux on the abandoned elevated train track at sunrise....in the rain...is amazing!).

Oh look...here's a trailer with excerpts from the Pas de deus.

The original (in 1956? 57?) was ignored in the US until it toured Europe...which ate it up and loved it...and came back, where they did a section of it on Ed Sullivan. It became hugely successful.

Here's the trailer from their web site.

http://opusjazz.com/trailer

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I can only aspire. Orrex Aug 2016 #11

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Always chuckle over the reaction when Americans find out about that legend. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2016 #23

Great artists against the backdrop of a great city - amazing! forest444 Aug 2016 #17

So... AlbertCat Aug 2016 #20

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