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Mary Nora's avatar

Thank you for sharing your reviews! I love NYCB and I’m so happy to hear about Woodward, Kikta, Nadon, Von Enck and Afanasenkov when I can’t see them in person. Hopefully going to catch a Swan Lake…

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Sasha Donovan-Anns's avatar

I love the Paquita Grand Pas, have danced a version of it as a student and watched it as a mainstay of the Vaganova graduation performances. It's so difficult to capture movement with words but you transported me to several of these iconic phrases of choreo. Thank you! ☺️

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MARINA HARSS's avatar

thank you! so glad to take you there!

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james edward mattimore's avatar

Marina: Brilliant as always. What a joy to read your review. You've seen Paquita twice and yet the writing feels as if you have seen it twenty times. I love you appraisal of the dancers. I love Olivia and want her to be a principal, but the also wonderful Miriam got there first. I like Chun, Joe and Roman, but I love women more.

LOVE and THANKS, JIM

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MARINA HARSS's avatar

Thank you very much, Jim. I think the pieces pushes them all in such interesting ways.

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Ellen's avatar

Thank you!

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Roaming for Culture's avatar

I have a growing fascination with ballet and find myself reading and re-reading your articles to educate myself (I just invested a lot of time watching the Prix de Lausanne this past week. Couldn’t help myself…..!!).

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MARINA HARSS's avatar

I'm honored to be part of your burgeoning interest in dance!

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