ballet-----can't say I enjoyed Coppelia, it has many static moments---but was able to see the ballet as a compilation of Balanchine's vision of dance, up to that point. He still had some strong ballets in him: Union Jack; Chaconne, Tziganne, Vienna Waltzes and Capriccio Espagnole, but the steps in Coppelia, really seem to sum up what he had done up to then. Well, if a bit too impersonally, danced. Enjoyed being in State (not Koch) theater; certainly it was useful to have it to go to on a cold Friday evening. Amazingly, the theater was more than three quarters filled, on this, the coldest night of this or any (possible) year.
Other than that, a good week at Friends, now on to Bronx Museum of the Arts, then......
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