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Performer: Sara Mearns

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Understatement and spectacle at New York City Ballet

David Gabriel in Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering © Erin Baiano
Jerome Robbins' Dances at a Gathering and George Balanchine's Diamonds make a study in contrasts. With lots of debuts in the former and seasoned leads in the latter. 
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Falling for Kyle Abraham, again, at New York City Ballet

Indiana Woodward and Taylor Stanley in Kyle Abraham's When We Fell © Erin Baiano
When We Fell, Kyle Abraham’s bracing new piece for NYCB, made a minimalist statement on a maximalist quadruple bill, also notable for stunning ensemble work in Alexei Ratmansky's Odesa.
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NYCB: some great debuts in All Ravel program

David Gabriel and Indiana Woodward in Balanchine's Sonatine © Erin Baiano
NYCB presents five short pieces to the music of Maurice Ravel in a bill that showed off some promising debuts.
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NYCB: Justin Peck revisits the familiar in Mystic Familiar

Joseph Gordon in Alexei Ratmansky's Solitude © Erin Baiano
New York City Ballet deliver an enjoyable, diverse, if occasionally predictable triple bill with revivals of works premiered last season.
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New York City Ballet, interrupted

Tiler Peck and Roman Mejia in Balanchine's Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux © Erin Baiano
Opening New York City Ballet's spring season, a quadruple bill of major and minor Balanchine eventually proceeded after protestors infiltrated the Koch Theater and created a diversion. 
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NYCB's Sara Mearns charts her next act?

Sara Mearns in Guillaume Côté's Don't Go Home © Steven Pisano
New York City Ballet's Sara Mearns proves that she is a natural contemporary dancer in a self-curated double bill.
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