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The full New York City Ballet company is at SPAC in Saratoga Springs, New York this week with six performances featuring the timeless works of Balanchine and Robbins, as well as the return of Merce Cunningham’s Summerspace and SPAC debuts by Jamar Roberts and Pam Tanowitz.The week kicked off with NYCB On and Off Stage and closes with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”To tell us more we are joined by dancer Indiana Woodward.

Episode 1: When Theatre is Criminal Image

The New York City Ballet returned in full force to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center Tuesday night for the first time since 2019, a very different-looking company from three years ago. Seven principal dancers have retired in the past year, bestowing their roles upon exciting young performers. Last year’s pandemic-slimmed programs featured a small cast of dancers in excerpts from a wide range of ballets, mostly with piano accompaniment. This summer the wonderfully versatile New York City Ballet Orchestra has returned under music director Andrew Litton to support the company in two repertory...

Heard while you were in the tent area. >> when we were in the off stage area tent behind the stage, he was very concerned about the shot, meaning the photograph that we would get, because the rally space wasn't full. one of the reasons, which i've previously stated was because he wanted it to be full, and for people to not feel excluded because they had come far to watch him at the rally. and he felt the mags were at fault for not letting everybody in, but another leading reason, and likely the primary reason is because he wanted it full, and he was angry at that -- that we weren't letting peo...

Area. >> when we were in the off stage announce area tent behind the stage he was very concerned about the shot, meaning the photograph that he would get, because the rally space was not full. one of the reasons, which i previously stated was because he wanted it to be full, and for people to not feel excluded. and he felt the mags were at fault for not letting everybody in, but another leading reason, likely the primary reason, is he wanted it full and he was angry that we were letting people through the mags with weapons, what secret service deemed as weapons and that are weapons, but in the...