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Erin Bomboy
- Feb 8, 2019
- 1 min
IMPRESSIONS: New York City Ballet’s New Combinations with Kyle Abraham, William Forsythe, and Justin
New York City Ballet in Kyle Abraham's The Runaway. Photo by Paul Kolnik. Baby Boomers have been called the worst generation, smug folks who moved from the Age of Aquarius to ‘80s yuppiedom with no appreciation for how the deck was stacked in their favor. Generation X is known for being slackers who consider irony and detachment moral imperatives. As for Millennials, don’t get anyone over the age of forty started. They’re responsible for everything from killing mayonnaise to
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Erin Bomboy
- May 15, 2018
- 1 min
IMPRESSIONS: New York City Ballet’s Gala: Robbins 100
It’s impossible to imagine the stages of the 20th century without Jerome Robbins’ contributions. How impoverished they would be without Fancy Free (1944), his jaunty smash about three sailors on shore leave, and Dances at a Gathering (1969), a meditation on transience set to Chopin.
Born in 1918, the year World War I ended, Robbins had his finger on America’s pulse until his death in 1998. He captured the zeitgeist of our time and embedded it in dances that transcend time.
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Erin Bomboy
- Dec 13, 2017
- 2 min
MUSING: The Prescience of "The Pas de Deux" amid Current Revelations about Peter Martins a
When I started writing The Pas de Deux: A Classical Ballet Romance in February of 2017, I had no idea how PRESCIENT it would be today in the wake of the #MeToo movement and the recent revelations about Peter Martins at New York City Ballet. At the time, dismayed by homophobia, racism, and sexism, I went back in time to see if history could teach me anything about hatred. I found myself in '80s Hollywood, smack in the middle of the AIDS epidemic, with stops along the way to ad
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