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Volume 63, Issue 3

Front Cover by Parastoo Anoushahpour
Still from: The Time That Separates Us, 2022
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Performance

My Student

September 16, 2022
By
Len Berkman

I think I should have retired at least ten years ago. My older sister Lucy announced her plans to retire, effective immediately, on the second anniversary of her husband’s death from dementia. She said it gave her the boost she desperately needed after her shock and grief refused to lift.

A Beef Stew for Shakespeare: Food for the Journey to Cordelia Lear

July 22, 2022
By
Len Berkman

Cordelia Lear, A Fable

July 7, 2022
By
Len Berkman

I think I’m waking up. One moment I was having a hard time accepting my father’s gifts to my husband and me, and the next my dad was screaming that he wanted never to set eyes on me again.

Modernist Tradition and the Individual Choreographic Talent

May 25, 2022
By
Mark Franko

The 2022 Stravinsky Festival began with an orchestral performance of Fireworks, one of Stravinsky’s early successes, which according to musicologist Charles M. Joseph in his book Stravinsky’s Ballets first drew Diaghilev’s attention to the composer in 1909.

Post-Pandemic Dance Fervor and the Dramatic Turn

April 11, 2022
By
Mark Franko

Ever since last September, the return to a normal performance schedule at New York City Ballet has brought with it a fervor visible not only in a renewed energy, resolve, and an evident joy in dancing after a trying pause, but also palpable in the intensity of feelings dancers display on stage.

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