Chic in the City: Dance! Got canned heat in my heels tonight baby...

New York City Ballet

I've been rapidly checking things off my NYC Bucket list in the last week or so and I wanted to blog about my latest. On Thursday, Amanda and I didn't have plans and wanted to figure out something to do. Seeing the New York City Ballet was something we had been wanting to do but we were unsure of how much tickets would cost us. After a little light research on the internet and one phone call later, Amanda managed to score $15 student rush tickets for the Thursday showing! We were so excited to have found such a great deal, but thought for sure that we'd be sitting way up in the nosebleed section. Boy were we wrong! Not only did we pay $15 but we got (basically center row) orchestra seats! We couldn't believe our luck! The NYC Ballet performed three separate acts, the first, Mozartina, a more traditional ballet set to Tschaikovsky's Suite No. 4. The second, Concerto DSCH (and my personal favorite) was a fast paced modern choreography number and the third, Cortege Hongrois was a dance based on a courtly parade. It was so unbelievably beautiful and the two and a half hour performance seemed to fly by. A truly unbelievable New York experience that I will never forget. We hope to get tickets for the upcoming performance of Swan Lake in February!

"When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking."---Carrie Bradshaw