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9 a.m. Head to Columbia Road Columbia Road Flower Market is perhaps one of the most popular attractions in East London. On any given Sunday, people can be seen walking the streets with a bouquet tucked under their arm or wrestling onto a train with a monstera plant. A warning: it gets incredibly busy. Arrive … Read more

Yuri Grigorovich, one of the most significant choreographers of the 20th century, who as the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1964 to 1995 reshaped Russian ballet in the late Soviet era, died on Monday. He was 98. His death was announced by the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. The announcement did not say where … Read more

Like most of the contemporary ballet on the show, Tobias’s creation is anything but inventive. (Much of it is by Marguerite Derricks, but there are also contributions by Christopher Wheeldon.) After the new version is finally performed — complete with portable ballet barres in a derivative William Forsythe touch — Tobias dashes onto the stage … Read more

There is Oberon, the King of the Fairies, and his beautiful Queen, Titania. Puck, a sprite, works his magic with the occasional unforced error, as mortals and immortals find themselves in a similar predicament: wanting to love. And wanting to be loved. But for all the sparkle of the mythological adults in George Balanchine’s “A … Read more

Ayodele Casel knows how to pull viewers toward her when she’s onstage. She’s a magnet. “There she is,” someone behind me whispered in excited awe as Casel casually stepped onto the stage of the Joyce Theater, dropping a backpack on the floor. Applause, the kind that often greets musicians, followed, which was correct: Casel makes … Read more

Manuel Legris, lithe in a tracksuit, held up a hand. “Stop! Stop!” he called out as Francesco Mura, a Paris Opera Ballet principal dancer, smoothly executed a tricky passage. “It’s lovely, but I’ve lost the character,” Legris told Mura. “I’m just seeing technique.” Legris, 60, knows about technique. A former étoile, or star, of the … Read more