Ashley Bouder and Igor Zelensky Rehearse 8/1/08

Ashley Bouder and Igor Zelensky rehearse for the International Evenings of Dance. At the Vail International Dance Festival.

The Vail International Dance Festival is a Project of the Vail Valley Foundation.

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• Ashely
• Bouder
• Igor
• Zelensky
• Vail
• International
• Dance
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• Valley
• Foundation

[rollinlieksushi]

and she keeps turning...and turning.....

[CordsZ]

Ashley Bouder is made for Balanchine, and I'm sure if he were alive she'd be a favorite of his. But I have to agree that NYCB is being run into the ground *coughPeterMartinscough*. Perhaps PNB, with their Balanchine repetoire, would afford her the opportunity for more challenge and growth?

[tightlygagged]

I suppose I understand your cluelessness about why Bouder wishes to dance the greatest and most stunning repertory imaginable rather than the same tired handful of 'classic' ballets over and over again. You obviously know ZERO about ballet, ballet technique, or difficulty.

[tightlygagged]

I wish you were less ignorant about ballet, of the fact that Balanchine is the greatest and most demanding choreographer in the history of the art form, and of the fact that ballet, unlike Neanderthal sports, is not a 'competition.' Buckwheat, if you're so stupid you're counting fouettes and so unobservant you can't tell slovenly triples from whistle-clean doubles (there is ONE ballerina now who does CLEAN triples: Tamara Rojo. that's it.),

[shivastotravali]

September 13, 2008 - news flash, Ratmansky is to be new resident choreographer at ABT; Ashley needs to get her butt over there.

[kdub10009]

I love Ashley at NYCB and I think she should stay there but also do guest artists stints elsewhere. she's born to dance Balanchine as well as Petipa and all the otherhs.

[shivastotravali]

(continued from below) She's the kind of dancer who makes you pull out your program wondering "Who *is* that?" -- same reaction I had first time I saw Gelsey Kirkland. As Alastair Macaulay of the New York Times has repeatedly made clear, she's one of the few dancers worth watching at NYCB these days; it's almost as if she's too big a fish in that pond already. I think she would flourish in a position where the highest level international competition pushes her to realize her full potential.

[shivastotravali]

I wish Ashley could/would leave NYCB so that she could focus more on the classical repertoire. Nice fouettes, but the truth is that the competition is tossing off triples while she's still messing with doubles, however nicely. She definitely has the technique to go farther. I saw her for the first time a little over a year ago right before she was made principal. I had no idea who she was at the time, but you simply can't take your eyes off that girl when she's on stage.

[oberon481]

Go Ashley!!