Tag Archives: New Haven Ballet

Final Stretch

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In addition to “the vocabulary and nuts and bolts of technique,” dancers should learn classical works that continue to be performed all over the world, New Haven Ballet artistic director Lisa Kim Sanborn contends.

Enter Don Quixote

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Leaps and Bounds

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This 2016 feature returns just in time for New Haven Ballet’s first live performances since the onset of the pandemic.

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This Week in New Haven (December 13 – 19)

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Icing and candles and balloons arrive a week before that big honorary birthday. …

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This Week in New Haven (December 9 – 15)

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As colleges around town hunker down for final exams, there’s no shortage of reasons for the rest of us to be out and about. …

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This Week in New Haven (December 10 – 16)

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From haiku to Harry Potter cosplay to dog and cat (and maybe lizard) photos with Santa, you can do it yourself this week, albeit with helping hands. …

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This Week in New Haven (December 11 – 17)

A spread from How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957)

Lit by Chanukah lights; set to a score of Christmas music and venerable local indie pop; and entertaining for both adults and kids, this week in New Haven is a crowd-pleaser. …

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Leaps and Bounds

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The sun set hours ago, and the dark winter evening outside makes the bright ballet studio seem stark, severe. Tonight, the students of the New Haven Ballet school are practicing for their annual production of The Nutcracker, just like …

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This Week in New Haven (April 22 – 28)

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It’s New Haven’s 375th birthday this week, and the soundtrack is jazz. The week offers such stellar practitioners of the artform as Willie Ruff (speaking about the links between line-singing in…

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This Week in New Haven (May 21-27)

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Music, some of which accompanies lyrical images of pratfalls, abounds this week in New Haven. You’ll find power pop, ballet scores, memorial funk, Dylan and the Dead tributes, and suspenseful zombie horror chords. Dig in.

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Be grateful …

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