ASPEN SANTE FE BALLET...triumphantly returns to The Joyce Theatre! NYC performances slated Feb. 17th - 22nd...

The Nationally-acclaimed Aspen Sante Fe Ballet returns to The Joyce with three New York City premieres.

For the past ten years or so, the Ballet company has wowed audiences with their impressive signature style - and I might add - garnered glowing reviews from tough critics near and far.

This eclectic and innovative dance troupe will return to the NYC and perform what is being touted by the company as a sophisticated program featuring some of the world's foremost choreographers in the exciting arena of Ballet today.

The likes of William Forsythe, Jorma Elo, Itzik Galili, and Helen Pickett are sure to delight, in fact!

Sid Smith of the Chicago Tribune raved:

"The Aspen Sante Fe Ballet is small in size and young in years, but its lustrous Chicago debut proved its big and deserves everlasting life."

"It's a class act, a classic act, and an extraordinary engaging act; it's the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet," exalted Clive Barnes at the New York Post.


Tickets: http://www.joyce.org

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Patrick Swayze...tabloid gossip on illness cruel and insensitive!

I was standing in line at a check-out counter at the supermarket a couple of weeks ago when I spied a screaming headline on the cover of a tabloid magazine.

Patrick Swayze dying!"

I recall recoiling in horror.

How cruel and insensitive!

The same thought crossed the talented actor's mind, too.

Although Mr. Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he has been valiantly fighting the disease. In fact, he is responding to treatment, and winning the battle.

Still stinging from the hurt, Mr. Swayze angrily noted to the legitimate press:

"They're reporting that I'm on my last legs and saying good-bye to my tearful family. It's upsetting that the shoddy and reckless reporting from these publications cast a negative shadow on the positive and good fight I'm fighting."

At a time when "hope is precious", he can only shake his head in disbelief.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Prying into - and reporting on - highly confidential medical records without the knowledge or permission of an individual - is a shocking and disturbing trend in a "no-holds-barred" kind of gossip-mongering which must be condemned - and ultimately - stopped in its tracks.

If the shoe were on the other foot, I hazzard a guess that the insensitive intruders might be angry, too.

George Eliot once said:

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity."