The New York City Ballet may not be back for in-person performances just yet, but it is ready and raring to go with a few digital performances you simply cannot miss.
In February, the company announced that ahead of its return to live performances at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in September 2021, it will serve up several new works and special programs for online release from February through May 2021. As the Company continues to plan for our return to the Koch Theater stage in September for the start of the 2021-22 performance season, we will once again present a series of digital programs with much of the content newly filmed in our theater at Lincoln Center, NYCB Artistic Director Jonathan Stafford shared in a statement. That glorious venue, NYCB s home since 1964, has been dark for nearly a year, and to see the theater begin to reawaken with NYCB s wonderful dancers performing new works by Justin Peck and Kyle Abraham, as well as iconic
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Streaming highlights: the New York Chorale Society, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and City Ballet’s ‘Prodigal Son.’
Larissa Gerszke and Chalvar Monteiro in Claudia Schreier’s duet to “God Is Seen at the Irondale, a church turned performance space, in Brooklyn.Credit.via New York Choral Society
By Marina Harss
Watching: New York Choral Society, ‘God Is Seen’
Like dance and the other performing arts, choral singing has had a tough year. Singing is breath, breath carries germs, and these days large groups of people singing together is the stuff of nightmares. But the urge to raise voices in song together, like the urge to move to music, is powerful. Now, the New York Choral Society is combining the two dance and song in a new short film to be released on Feb. 23.