“NY Post”
‘WIDOW’ IS AT ITS PEAK
By: Clive Barnes – July 2, 2008
For sheer virtuosity, you have Hynd’s clever construction of an anonymous Balkan folk dance ending in a blaze of pirouettes led by a dazzling Joseph Phillips.
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“NY Post”
AGE-OLD FANFARE FOR YOUNG TALENT
By: CLIVE BARNES – June 13, 2008
Also outstanding… Misty Copeland with Joseph Phillips (new to ABT this season and clearly a powerhouse acquisition) as the Gypsy Couple encamped in the second act.
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“The Sun”
A Ballerina’s Holiday
By: Joel Lobenthal – July 3, 2008
Jose Manuel Carreño was fine as the amorously adventurous but not overly bright Count. But the major male pyrotechnical display goes to Joseph Phillips, leading the Pontevedrian braves in a quasi-nationalistic dance that is more classical showpiece than anything else. They put it over neatly.
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Ballet Magazine
ABT’s Spring Gala
By: Eric Taub – May, 19 2008
First up was a glimpse of what might be the company’s future, in the presence of Joseph Phillips, leading Craig Salstein and Jared Matthews in the Pontevedrian dances from Ronald Hynd’s The Merry Widow… Phillips, a flashy virtuoso who’s migrated from San Francisco Ballet to Miami City Ballet to ABT, delivered flashy trick after flashy trick big half-turning leaps into splits, and endless turns, kicks and pirouettes, with Matthews and Salstein following suit, though at a respectful distance. It’s not usual for an artistic director to put a member of the corps ahead of two soloists, as Kevin McKenzie’s done here. I can only assume he decided to show off the latest toy in his box of virtuoso male action figures. This casting’s a vote of confidence in Phillips’ future, yet also a nod to his past and future…
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Dance View Times
Coming Attractions “ABT Gala”
By: Mary Cargill – May 19, 2008
The new soloist, Joseph Phillips, led the ensemble, and in what must have been a daunting assignment for a newcomer, danced fearlessly and almost flawlessly. He is comparatively short, and of the bouncing ball variety, with all sorts of trick jumps, and an infectious joy that got things off to a fine start.
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“The Sun”
Putting on the Glitz – Opening Night Gala
By: Joel Lobenthal – May 21, 2008
One of the last things that ABT needs to cultivate right now is more short male whippersnappers, but Joseph Phillips showed himself eminently worthy of catapulting into this slot in some Ruritanian-style carousing.
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Dance View Times: New York City
Don’t cry for me, Pontevedro
By: Leigh Witchel – June 30, 2008
Joseph Phillips, a new soloist, was a baby-faced firecracker of a Lead Pontevedrian in Act II. He’s quite a trickster doing multiple tours in rapid succession; it was great fun to watch his Gypsy pants billowing as he revolved.
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Dance Reviewer
Doomed Love and Jaded Floozies
By: Hilary Ostlers – May 22, 2008
Pontevedrian dancers led by Joseph Phillips, whose verve and elevation made him a stand-out. …he is obviously destined for promotion.

“The Star-Ledger”
Irresistible cast makes ‘Merry’ at American Ballet Theatre
By: Robert Johnson – July 01, 2008
As the leader of the male folk ensemble wearing turbans and baggy pants, Joseph Phillips displays astonishing bravura.
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“New York Times”
Trickle-Down Economics as Savior? No, Marry-Up
By: Gia Kourlas – July 2, 2008
Mr. Barbee gives his imbecilic character a finely nuanced touch of innocence. Twitching his belly during a peppery pseudo-Pontevedrian folk dance, led by a beaming Joseph Phillips, he is also extremely funny. And throughout this madcap drama Ms. Kent never seems to forget that Hanna was once nothing more than a pretty peasant.
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Dance Reviewer
ABT’s “The Merry Widow”
By: Rachel Straus – July 7, 2008
Also miraculous was Joseph Phillips’s Act II folk dance solo. Phillips’s ability to bounce up from every jump in vertical splendor was awesome.
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“The Sun”
Multiple Pas de Deux Add Up to a Long Evening: San Francisco Ballet
By: Joel Lobenthal – July 27, 2006
Joseph Phillips plunged head first into his debut in the “Swan Lake” pas de trois, and he proved both intrepid and highly skilled.
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Dance Reviewer
“Giselle”: San Francisco Ballet
By: Paul Parish – February 21, 2005
The dancers in the pas de cinq Saturday were very fine, especially Elizabeth Miner as the “first among equals.” Clara Blanco was exquisite also, and Joseph Phillips was extraordinarily open, generous, modest, musical, and nearly flawless in every step (including a whiz-bang virtuoso thing that looks like a doubled tour jeté, like four or five scythes whirling very fast below the belt, and then he lands and smiles at us, and then he does it again, with a Danish forbearance).