Oh, for a travel budget: Susan Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center
I’m having a love/hate relationship with the internet and the arts. Love because I can catch glimpses of fun events and even feel connected to them, somewhat, through the very personal reviews of people like Tonya Plank . I can even, through the magic of YouTube and such, watch some of the action (not to mention catch up on the latest episodes of Dancing With the Stars).
But let’s face it. It’s not being there. So while I can appreciate the glimpses I get, and even occasionally be able to afford trips to the Madison Ballet (their upcoming Cinderella sounds sweet, I hope I can afford it) it’s hard to get things like Susan Farrell’s "Notes on the Ballet" from the Kennedy Center and know that, as good as it sounds:
"With her intimate knowledge of the Balanchine canon, the company will dance a number of his masterworks in two mixed repertory programs, including Scotch Symphony to music by Mendelssohn, Mozartiana to music by Tchaikovsky, and Slaughter on Tenth Avenue to music by Richard Rodgers. The engagement will also feature the DC premieres of two reconstructed works as part of Farrell’s Balanchine Preservation Initiative, the Adagio from Concierto de Mozart to music by Mozart and Divertimento Brillante to music by Glinka."
…I’ll not be seeing it. And I can only sigh at hearing about how Apollinaire Scherr was hanging out with Swan Lake Samba Girl while Doug Fox and other NYC bloggers are hanging out at Dance Theatre Workshop. (Speaking of which, I see that Larry Goldhuber is performing there. I got to work with him and Heidi Latsky as one of Doug Rosenberg’s assistants a while back at P.S. 122. I’ll have to see if I can find some footage of that…)
Ah, for a travel budget….
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Thanks for the shout-out! I know I shouldn’t complain, but I kind of know how you feel — it seems there are so many interesting things going on in Germany and England and Brazil and other places and not all that many are touring New York… I wanna go there! That is kind of the sad thing about dance and live theater isn’t it — YouTube, and blogs, etc. are great and are such a necessary vehicle for expanding arts appreciation, but it’s still not the same as seeing something live… Anyway, thanks for appreciating my personal reviews!