Boston Ballet provided tickets to Obsidian Tear for my review. I am a researcher by nature. I like to know the background and history and meaning of things. On the other hand, sometimes I like go to the ballet without any hints of what I am about to see. I want to experience it in…
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Travel to Toronto: Hôtel Le Germain Maple Leaf Square
Toronto isn’t my city. My city is Boston and when I talk about “the city” I mean NYC. On the other hand, Toronto is the city I grew up with. It was the place we drove a little over an hour to visit family and friends for special occasions or planned a trip to for…
Mixed Bill: Boston Ballet’s Robbins/The Concert
I love a clean and pure Balanchine piece and that is what Robbins/The Concert opens with. I also love the New Yorker cartoonesque nature of The Concert as well. However, I didn’t love this mixed bill by Boston Ballet. As I often do, I received tickets to Robbins/The Concert for review and I would still…
Staying Relevant: Sleeping Beauty
We live in interesting times. If there ever was a time of fast-paced progress and equally extreme desire to recreate some sort of status quo it seems like this is that time. (No doubt the industrial revolution had a similar vibe in some ways.) I have the job of raising two children in these times and for the…
Step Outside & Get Lost in Willliam Forsythe’s Artifact: Boston Ballet will be Remembered for This
Boston Ballet’s performance, which is the North American premiere of William Forsythe’s full length Artifact. It is a spoken word piece, a ballet, a concerto, an artwork all in one.
New Years Eve Fun with Boston Ballet
If you aren’t sure that you can handle the crowds and the cold at First Night in Boston, NYE Nutcracker with Boston Ballet is a great way to ring in the new year. Spend time together in the beautiful, warm and festive Boston Opera House. You’ll be treated to a brass concert of Holiday songs…
Bah Humbug It’s Nutcracker Time
Boston Ballet invited me to see this year’s Nutcracker performance and I decided to put my carol-belting, holiday baking, dance-loving self aside for a little holiday twist on this year’s review. If you can’t stop singing Christmas carols and you love the smell of pine trees everywhere then this post isn’t for you. If you are picking…
Kellogg’s Tour of Gymnastics Champions: Giveaway
It’s not the Olympics. It’s not the circus. It’s not a gymnastics meet either. It is a little bit of everything. I take my daughter to the ballet to inspire her and show her what the pinnacle of all that work in the studio looks like. With gymnastics there are very few opportunities like that. The…
Weekend Guide: Hockey, Huron Village, and History on the Half Shell
It’s the weekend and here are some things to do. Get out and try something new! 4th We are just starting to think about Thanksgiving, but if you are smart you will get all your Christmas shopping done early and avoid the crowds and the craziness. Shop from booth to booth a little bit…
Princesses & Pirates vs Sugarplums & Soldiers: Boston Ballet’s Le Corsaire
I know! I know ! “Nutcracker is a tradition!” you exclaim. Do you know how many “traditions” get stale and are mentioned later in life as that day we all dreaded? Don’t get me wrong, Nutcracker is a fun family ballet, but if you really want to share an appreciation of the arts you have to…
Weekend Guide: Mazes & Ice Cream Because: Fall in New England
Fall Homecomings, Leaf Peeping Apple Picking, Pumpkin Spice Lattés Caramel Apples, Chai Hay Mazes & Not Putting on the Heat Wearing Boots and Scarves but Still Ordering Iced Coffee and Going Out for Ice Cream We are New Englanders 10/14 BU Fringe Festival 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.(Boston) You have fringe on your scarf and fringe…
Ballerinas and Tacos
Today is World Ballet Day but it is also National Taco Day so clearly if you live in the US the only thing to do today is to take a ballet class or buy tickets for a ballet, and then go out for tacos. From now until October 30th Margaritas Mexican Restaurant’s Taco Gigante, a…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 