Talk:New York City Ballet

Lists
Robert, I appreciate your attempts to improve this article, but you are not improving it but making it a gigantic series of lists. What it could use are paragraphs--textual narratives--that explore the history of the company, it's purpose, its creative vision, etc. Instead, you are creating lists about every piece it has ever performed, which is not encyclopedic since the performance of a ballet piece by a ballet company is not notable. -- David  Shankbone  17:46, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

notability of individual ballets
David, I disagree about the notability of the individual ballets. I am not creating a seperate for each performance, which would be ridiculous, not to say arduous, but if, as you argue, individual ballets are not notable, neither are Beethoven's symphonies or Wagner's operas or Shakespeare's individual plays. Following this line of reasoning to its extreme, individual baseball teams are not notable in that they could all be listed under the American League, etc. I admit to pushing the point, but I think it is valid to list individual ballets in the case of major choreographers; Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, August Bournonville, John Cranko, Birgit Cullberg (whose centennial I will attend this Saturday at the Royal Swedish Ballet where the eponymous company she founded will appear on the second half of the bill), Nacho Duato, Boris Eifman, Mats Ek (Cullberg's son), Michel Fokine, William Forsythe, Martha Graham, Kurt Jooss, Kenneth MacMillan, Léonide Massine, Agnes de Mille, Mark Morris, John Neumeier, Bronislava Nijinska, Marius Petipa, Roland Petit, Jerome Robbins and Antony Tudor (I have been very strict with myself and this list is very short.) Robert Greer (talk) 15:08, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Tschaikovsky vs. Tchaikovsky
"How should the name of the composer of the music for “Serenade” be spelled? Most Westerners now spell it Tchaikovsky, but City Ballet took up, during Balanchine’s lifetime, the spelling Tschaikovsky. Why? Because that’s how the composer spelled it when he was in New York in 1891. (My thanks to the reader who sent me a copy of his Carnegie Hall autograph from the Pierpont Morgan Library.)"


 * NY Times article by Alastair Macaulay, June 1, 2007

unsigned
Why are people creating loops that never go anywhere - just googled Elizabeth Walker which brings up a wikipedia disambiguation, which is then a redirect to NYCB and is there a profile for Elizabeth Walker - no. So what's the point? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.101.229.49 (talk) 07:22, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Now that she has retired you will have to amend the to do list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.101.229.49 (talk) 07:32, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Redirect
Could the search term "NYC Ballet" redirect here? This article does not turn up in the first page results when you search NYC Ballet. 96.224.42.110 (talk) 19:15, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅, after almost 10 years. intforce (talk) 12:28, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

lovette?
Why is "lovette" a redirect to this? Actually, I don't even want to know, but I was just searching the term or name, not some dancer who's worked for NYCB. 85.217.40.235 (talk) 01:35, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

I just did a search, and there are 6 persons with name "Lovette" (4×last name, 2×first name) who have an article on Wikipedia. And then "lovette" is a redirect to a list within this article? WTF? I don't get it. 85.217.40.235 (talk) 01:41, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

She's back in South Bend, being a nurse. Somebody is cleaning up references to her on the web, apparently. 98.248.37.60 (talk) 00:11, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Wrong Lovette -- she's still a principal dancer with us and is most definitely not in South Bend Michaela.drapes (talk) 22:11, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

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Updates from the company
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revision 778669525 by BoonDeal
I undid this revision as what was removed has long been accepted as accurate and impartial, both about Balanchine and about the size of City Ballet's rep, 100s of ballets, 43 (by 22 choreographers) being performed in the middle four weeks (the Here/Now Festival) of the company's 6-week Spring 2017 season; 50 by 24 if one includes the first and last weeks. Robert Greer (talk) 15:49, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

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Lawsuit
Thoughts on adding the impending lawsuit filed by Alexandra Waterbury against NYCB and Chase Finlay to the article? It's clearly gotten international media attention (see ABC News, The Washington Post, The Times, The Independent, BBC News, etc.) -- Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 05:09, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Current roster of dancers
Thoughts on the possible inclusion of a chart of the current roster of dancers with the company. Pretty much every other article on major ballet companies include this. SpiritedMichelle (talk) 00:35, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

"Architecture of Dance" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Architecture of Dance. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 16 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. 2pou (talk) 17:53, 16 March 2021 (UTC)