Artistic Director’s Notebook: The Veil Between Worlds, The Times Are Racing, Black Wave

Welcome to the first program of the new season. What a season it promises to be with the unveiling of our much-anticipated new production of The Sleeping Beauty, the return of Roméo et Juliette, and three world premieres. There are also plenty of fan favorites like Crystal Pite’s Emergence, Jerome Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun, Marco Goecke’s Mopey, and Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs. The excitement starts right here – right now, with Rep I!

Zoe Meadows-Sahr2024-10-24T12:06:06-07:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances|Tags: 2024/25 Season, Black Wave, Edwaard Liang, Jessica Lang, Justin Peck, Peter Boal, Phil Chan, The Times Are Racing, The Veil Between Worlds|Comments Off

Leaping from Caricature into Character

By Phil Chan, co-Founder, Final Bow for Yellowface

As a Chinese person, the second act of The Nutcracker has always bugged me. Looking more broadly at the historic depictions of “Chinese” people on the Western performing arts stage, we see fantasy elements of what Europeans thought Chinese people looked like […]

Maris Antolin2022-11-02T12:03:43-07:00November 29th, 2021|Categories: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Accessibility (I.D.E.A.), Performances, The Nutcracker|Tags: 2021/22 Season, Final Bow for Yellowface, George Balanchine, Phil Chan, The Nutcracker|1 Comment

Artistic Director’s Notebook – George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker 2021

Artistic Director’s Notebook: George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™ 2021

“This cannon fires cheese,” Mr. Gio explained in a recent battle scene rehearsal for George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, prompting all the nine and ten-year-old Soldiers to giggle uncontrollably.

“What kind of cheese?” asked Soldier Number Seven, […]

Maris Antolin2023-09-26T13:13:37-07:00November 23rd, 2021|Categories: Director's Notebook, Performances, The Nutcracker|Tags: 2021/22 Season, Final Bow for Yellowface, George Balanchine, George Balanchine Trust, Judith Fugate, Peter Boal, Phil Chan, The Nutcracker|Comments Off

Artistic Director’s Notebook: Coppélia

In the spring of 1974, my parents took my sister and me to a performance of George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova’s Coppélia at New York State Theater. It wasn’t my first ballet, but it was the one that prompted me to ask my mom […]

Maris Antolin2023-09-26T14:38:41-07:00May 3rd, 2021|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Director's Notebook|Tags: 2020/21 Season, Alexandra Danilova, Benjamin Griffiths, Coppelia, Digital Season, Final Bow for Yellowface, George Balanchine, Georgina Pazcoguin, Leo Delibes, Leta Biasucci, Peter Boal, Phil Chan, Ryan Cardea|Comments Off

Artistic Director’s Notebook: George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker 2020

When the days grow short and the nights cold and festive holiday lights appear all around us, we spot snow on faraway peaks and wonder whether we might see enough outside our windows to build a snowperson. We also realize […]

Maris Antolin2023-09-26T14:52:36-07:00December 10th, 2020|Categories: Dance Happens Everywhere, Director's Notebook, The Nutcracker|Tags: 2020/21 Season, Digital Season, Final Bow for Yellowface, George Balanchine, Peter Boal, Phil Chan, The Nutcracker|4 Comments