Adrienne Warren, NY Philharmonic & More Announced for Bryant Park Picnic Performances 2021 Summer Lineup
See twenty-five live music, dance and theater events for a free, ticketed audience at midtown Manhattan s Bryant Park.by BWW News Desk
Bryant Park Corporation has announced the current programming schedule for its summer performing arts series, Picnic Performances, featuring artists including Adrienne Warren, the New York Philharmonic, Mykal Kilgore, New York City Opera and many more!
See twenty-five live music, dance and theater events for a free, ticketed audience at midtown Manhattan s Bryant Park. Livestream broadcasts of nearly all of this season s Picnic Performances will also be available to anyone at no cost via Bryant Park s social media platforms, thanks to the generous support of Bank of America.
Jacques dâAmboise, Charismatic Star of City Ballet, Is Dead at 86
He helped popularize ballet with an all-American style, combining the nonchalance of Fred Astaire with the nobility of a classic male dancer. Hollywood came calling, too.
Jacques DâAmboise in 1961. His energy, athleticism, infectious smile and boy-next-door appeal endeared him to audiences.Credit.Jack Mitchell/Getty Images
Published May 3, 2021Updated May 7, 2021
Jacques dâAmboise, who shattered stereotypes about male dancers as he helped popularize ballet in America and became one of the most distinguished male stars at New York City Ballet, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 86.
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In a memorable passage in his great 1969 novel
Mr. Bridge, writer Evan S. Connell sketched a perfect comic picture of the indifference to art among some members of America’s privileged classes. The titular Mr. Bridge, a high-minded Kansas City lawyer, attends a ballet performance, and while he finds himself pleasantly diverted by the ballerinas, he is perplexed by their male partners.
“No doubt they were necessary for the show, and he could not think of any specific reason the young men should not be dancing,” Connell wrote, maintaining some sympathy with his hero while sending up his provincialism. “All the same he did not quite like it.”