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...During that time, Weiss guest-performed with several companies in New York. Finally able to pay for her own pointe shoes, Anna's pirouettes caught the eye of American Ballet Theatre director Kevin McKenzie. "I was taking open classes in the evening at ABT," she says, "and I ended up getting along really well with the Ballet Mistress. She invited me to come take Company class in the morning. Kevin McKenzie would come in all the time and be like, ‘Who's that girl?', and that's how I ended up getting an audition." Networking holds...
...summer following her first audition at ABT, Weiss experienced a dramatic change in her professional dance aspirations. "I was getting over an injury," she recalls, "and sort of figuring out that ballet wasn't necessarily the world I wanted to be in. It was the ninth time I had been seriously injured—I'd had stress fractures, sprained ankles, bad knee problems that I knew I would be looking forward to during my career...
...ABT's weekend engagement was dedicated to the memory of choreographer Jerome Robbins, whose masterpiece, Fancy Free, was featured at every performance. The performance included five short pieces revealing the classical and the modern strengths of ABT's repertoire and dancers; The Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, Fancy Free, and three pas de deux from Swan Lake, Le Corsaire and Romeo and Juliet. The dancers performed each number with a refreshing and youthful exuberance. The enthusiasm with which they danced, the consistently strong technique of the dancers from the corps de ballet to the principle dancers and the ease with...
...evening opened with the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, which the ABT commissioned and premiered in 1987. The lively piece has three movements and includes four main couples and a corps de ballet of 16. The choreography consists of numerous lifts and turns, and at times the corps looked chaotic and stiff rather than organized and fluid. The male corps dancers, in particular, were incredibly strong and their jumps incredibly high. The lead couples included both principal and corps de ballet dancers. Though each couple was excellent, the refinement and artistry of the principal dancers stood out in contrast...
...three pas de deux that followed--the grand pas de deux from Act III of Swan Lake, the pas de deux from Act II of Le Corsaire, and the pas de deux from Act I of Romeo and Juliet--showed off the technical prowess of ABT's dancers...