- October 9, 2000
- Capital B
As the Kennedy Center's terrific tribute demonstrated, plenty of companies out there could show New Yorkers a thing or two about Balanchine.
- August 14, 2000
- Avant-Guarded
At the Lincoln Center Festival, a safe repertoire passes for experimental and guarantees an audience applauding its own "daring" taste.
- August 7, 2000
- Russian Evolution
A revamped Bolshoi Ballet makes its first New York appearance in years -- but is its new, streamlined look a change for the better?
- July 10, 2000
- Take Five (Please)
Need more sad evidence that the once-brilliant City Ballet has lost its luster? This year's Diamond Project should convince you.
- June 26, 2000
- Just Saying No
Baryshnikov's White Oak project honors the choreographers of the Judson Dance Theater, who loudly rejected dance dogma decades before he did.
- June 19, 2000
- Class Dismissed
The report cards are in for the students of the School of American Ballet -- and for their counterparts in the platitudinous new movie "Center Stage."
- June 19, 2000
- Nicholas Hytner's "Center Stage"
- June 5, 2000
- Lake Inferior
In the murky new American Ballet Theatre "Swan Lake," an emphasis on speeding things along leads to some ill-advised omissions.
- May 29, 2000
- Diamond Dogs
New works from the City Ballet's Diamond Project suggest that its money might be better spent; Trisha Brown succeeds despite a tin ear.
- April 24, 2000
- Ballet Tech
Some charming gimmickry from Eliot Feld's Ballet Tech.