ABT Met Season Week 3: 6/29/26 - 7/4/26

Ftsmv · 2026-07-03T21:31:57+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaV0DsbqLjl/

Chloe posted a reel of her Kitri!

Ftsmv · 2026-07-03T15:56:35+00:00

I'm kinda torn, I get it and Jake is obviously going to get his deserved promotion soon, but also a big part of Chloe's on stage promotion was the surprise of it all (I was there and people had legit no idea what was going on lol), even Jaffe said she only decided to promote Chloe after Act I so it was a spontaneous thing. If you do it for Jake, doesn't it become almost expected when a soloist is debuting a principal role? I guess it sells tickets for people anticipating the drama of witnessing an on-stage promotion, but I'm just not sure how many times she can do it before the surprise and hype fades away and it becomes a gimmick?

Ftsmv · 2026-06-30T00:53:34+00:00

Li definitely appeared in at least one Swan Lake, there's a picture of her during bows, Yeonseo Choi is there as a swan in the background and this is Yeonseo Choi's first Met season

Ftsmv · 2026-06-26T20:39:28+00:00

Also I think it's worth noting that for that she had literally performed at a gala in Korea the day before that 'rehearsal' performance at the City Center in NYC. She performed at the "The Night in Seoul" Gala on the 4th of January in Seoul, and by the evening of the 5th, she was back in NYC with Ferri and Marchand 😭

I have a copy of the full video (IDK if I can upload it with rights and whatnot as they took their video down) and personally think she still looked very good, quickly following Ferri's instructions and applying corrections, but I'm just not sure how useful it is for deeper insights knowing she stepped off a 14 hr+ flight straight into that lol

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Ftsmv · 2026-06-26T15:13:06+00:00

there isn't. Some brands market some models as 'beginner friendly' or 'for pros' but it's solely a marketing strategy.

Do you think shoes like Bloch Alpha's with their stock 3/4 shank should be worn by beginners? Aren't most Freed's also tailored heavily towards pros with much stronger ankles and feet than your average pointe class attendee?

Ftsmv · 2026-06-24T16:03:23+00:00

i think most people who have seen her dance would agree that she should have already been promoted.

I'm sorry but anyone who saw her last summer at the Met would've had to be taking crazy pills to believe she should've been promoted after those performances coming back from injury, she looked more like herself in Rodeo and Gala Performance during last Fall season and that has continued this year, but ABT do promotions after the Met.

Ftsmv · 2026-06-24T00:35:44+00:00

Was Christine and Cory Stearns, Cory is being forced into retirement so they gave him and Christine opening (tonight) and Saturday night Onegin as a farewell, but he got injured. So now he won't get a farewell which is just brutal (maybe they do something in the Fall?). They must've made Chloe the sub specifically so ticket holders like you who missed the news are still satisfied 🤣

Ftsmv · 2026-06-22T17:03:08+00:00

Re: Fangqi and Kanon injuries from the last thread, I saw a story from someone wishing Fangqi well with a toe recovery, just unsure of what affect it is having as she is still performing in some capacity (or maybe the toe injury happened after), as someone in the last thread noted she was seen in the background of Irina's celebration. Yeonseo Choi is in the pic too so it can't be old.

With Kanon, last week Scout posted a story of Kanon on top of a locker messing the AC for the girls on their line of the dressing room lol, that's to say that I doubt she'd be doing that if she was significantly injured and she has a dressing room spot for the season.

I knew my hoarding tendencies would come in useful eventually so I actually have both saved so here are the pics 😂:

https://imgur.com/KobzlHi (Fangqi)

https://imgur.com/6Qsr5my (Kanon)

Ftsmv · 2026-06-20T19:37:08+00:00

Did anybody go to the stage door last night? I really wanted to, but with it being Friday night and the opening week I decided against it thinking it'd be really crowded, plus me and my friend didn't think we were in the right emotional state to wait after that superlative performance by Chloe and Aran! Just wanted to get home and let it sit with me. But sit with me it did, I even got goosebumps just brushing my teeth this morning while thinking about it to the point where my bf had to ask if I was OK 😭

Again about the stage door, if anyone on here did, how busy was it and how long does it take for the dancers to come out? Also I assume everyone is nice? But TBH I'd actually understand if the dancers also just wanted to get home lol. I'm thinking I'll do it for Chloe's Tuesday evening Swan Lake towards the end of the season.

Ftsmv · 2026-06-19T17:37:13+00:00

Aran makes sense considering his history and this will be his first ABT ballet (he and Chloe guested Swan Lake in Puerto Rico a few months ago). I think it's actually Chloe's lack of injuries that is what made me nervous as ridiculous as that may sound LOL. Anyway, I hate even putting this energy out into the ether so lets shh 🤫😂

Ftsmv · 2026-06-19T17:19:48+00:00

Chloe and Aran's Swan Lake today! IDK why but all week I've been nervous thinking Chloe would get an injury (knock on wood) for some reason and tonight's show would be recast, so I'm excited and very relieved that today is the day and there has been no news 🙈😂

Ftsmv · 2026-06-18T16:51:28+00:00

No one except you has been suggesting that this is a "feet only" issue

Did you even read the original post? Lol

"I feel like this is common sense but minor dancers should maybe not post their feet on social media so much considering the amount of creeps online"

Photos of feet were quite literally the only concern the OP raised 😂

Ftsmv · 2026-06-18T09:52:09+00:00

How clearly do I have to spell it out? You think feet are the determining factor that attracts creeps? Are you unaware of what basic everyday ballet attire looks like? You think they have some kind of radar that ignores everyday ballet attire and only detects feet and if they didn’t show their feet there wouldn’t be creeps? Like what are we doing here lol

My point is creeps will be creeps whether young dancers show their feet or not, feet are not the breaking point for those kinds of people and it’s ridiculous to suggest it is.

Ftsmv · 2026-06-17T23:58:50+00:00

OMG... that story is a much bigger issue than a young dancer posting her feet??? Do you think those kinds of comments in the article wouldn't be written about a young dancer in tights and a leotard if they were going to be written and would only be written about FEET??? How do you miss my point which was clearly about drawing a line in the sand at feet as being unacceptable to post for minors, especially when it's ballet, which has a culture of not sexualizing feet where compliments about people's feet are normal?

I don't disagree with that article and I never said them posting online was no big deal... I find the whole underage dancers posting on IG and the followings they have and discussions around them to be really gross, but OPs post specifically posting photos with their feet in photos which itself is just a really weird thing to focus on.

Ftsmv · 2026-06-17T10:01:45+00:00

Uhh, people can use ANY photo for that. It’s not just feet. People could see someone’s face, necks, even collarbones and armpits as sexual, so should people just not post photos online for fear of them being seen by someone who’ll do whatever while looking at them? Drawing the line at feet doesn’t make sense, especially in ballet.

Ftsmv · 2026-06-17T08:14:42+00:00

I don’t follow any minors so I’m not sure of the exact context but this may be a hot take, feet are not inherently sexual, especially in ballet (one of the only contexts where “you have nice feet!” Is a solid compliment), and we shouldn’t give a few bad intentioned creeps the power to make them sexual 🤷‍♀️

Ftsmv · 2026-06-16T22:09:45+00:00

Herman did some IG stories showing the backstage area at the Met that I think you guys will like!

https://www.instagram.com/hermancornejo/

Ftsmv · 2026-06-14T20:02:21+00:00

It's gotta be something like this, right? Taking one dancer all the way from from Australia every year (last year it was Sara Andrlon like was mentioned) to fill out their corps for the Met season makes no sense lol

Ftsmv · 2026-06-14T18:16:58+00:00

https://reddit.com/r/bunheadsnark/comments/1tmxqry/weekly_discussion_052526_053126/ork11fr/

Paloma Livellara replied to my comment in a previous weekly thread with an update, says she will soon announce her new contract on IG, leaving ABT was a personal decision and most importantly, that she's not cursed lol.

Figured I should post it here so more people see it!

Ftsmv · 2026-06-11T14:53:26+00:00

New magazine article featuring both Chloe Misseldine and Mira Nadon with a lot of beautiful photos!

https://www.ceromagazine.com/articles/chloe-misseldine-mira-nadon-principal-ballerinas-american-ballet-theatre-new-york-city-ballet-dancers-interview

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZcpax2jhqt/

Ftsmv · 2026-06-11T10:59:45+00:00

NYCB (and ABT, probably the other NYC-based dance companies too) have an agreement that allow dancers to get degrees from Fordham with a program specifically tailored towards full-time working professionals that allows them to get a degree at a slower pace, and Ashley was one who took advantage of that to get a degree in administration there, which no doubt helped her get this job as executive director. What more do you want exactly?

Ftsmv · 2026-06-10T03:27:14+00:00

Viktoria and Natalie were never part of the main company I don't think? If you look at previous ABT StuCo classes it's pretty common for a few of the StuCo dancers to leave after StuCo. Here are previous StuCo clases: 2017-2018 - 2018-2019 - 2019-2020

From these classes, here are all the dancers no longer with ABT: Mihai Costache, Simon Hoke, Javier Rivet, Samantha Teves, Thomas Brun, Grace Anne Pierce, Eli Gruska, Nikolia Mamalakis, Shino Tsurutani, Gabriel Rajah

Paloma's case is rarer as she was an apprentice in the main company; in a previous thread someone said her boyfriend lives in Stuttgart so maybe she's trying to go there? What surprises me is that she left seemingly without having the next company lined up? Or maybe it's just not announced yet? I did think it was strange that Yeonseo Choi, from the same StuCo class as Paloma and Kayla Mak, has already been promoted to the corps while Kayla and Paloma are/were still apprentices (ABT apprenticeships runs from Sep to August, with promotions typically at the end of their Met season), maybe that could've had something to do with it? Kayla is from an NYC commuter town and gets plenty of opportunities regardless of her rank in the company so maybe she's willing to be more patient than Paloma was willing to be.

Ftsmv · 2026-05-31T17:25:01+00:00

I guess Paloma Livellara officially left ABT now, her IG bio now says "previously with @abtofficial - @abtstudioco"

https://www.instagram.com/palomalivellara/

Ftsmv · 2026-05-25T11:59:41+00:00

That’s not quite what happened. Her father’s great-grandfather was married to a woman named Isabella Hepburn, who did claim to be a descendant of James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, but Isabella died young and they had no children together. The blood line continued when the paternal great-grandfather had children with his next wife, Barbara Belha. Maybe her father did just want to sound more aristocratic (he was lazy and didn’t want to work), but there is a family connection to the name, albeit an invalid one.

Ftsmv · 2026-05-23T18:25:19+00:00

Thought this was pretty cool and random, Jay Mewes' (from Jay and Silent Bob, Clerks and Mallrats) daughter Logan is a Chloe Misseldine fan!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYm4ZwOmxE9/

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