by Linda on November 27, 2009
Is this ballet for you? Go if: For the past few years you have overdosed on too many Nutcrackers and would like to see something different. You are dreaming of a White Christmas, sleigh bells in the snow, etc. Skip if: Cute and/or nostalgic Edwardian Christmases are not your thing. Background British ballet owes a [...]
Tagged as:
ABT,
Anna Pavlova,
Ashton,
Blue Boy,
Christmas Ballet,
Constant Lambert,
Elizabeth Miller,
Giacomo Meyerbeer,
Harold Turner,
June Brae,
L'Etoile du Nord,
Le Prophète,
Les Patineurs,
Light & Fluffy,
Margot Fonteyn,
Marie Rambert,
Mary Honer,
One act,
Pamela May,
Richard Bonynge,
Robert Helpmann,
Sarasota Ballet,
The Joffrey,
William Chappell
by Emilia on November 24, 2009
Is this ballet for you? Go if: you want to treat your kids, godchildren, nieces and nephews or even perhaps the kid in you. Skip if: Bah humbug! Dream Cast Sugar Plum Fairy: any ballerina who can do proper gargouillades Background The Nutcracker is a major example of a balletic twist of fate. The very [...]
Tagged as:
ABT,
Alastair Marriott,
Alexandre Dumas,
Alina Cojocaru,
Balanchine,
Baryshnikov,
Bill Cooper,
Birmingham Royal Ballet,
Casse Noisette,
Celesta,
Clara,
Drosselmeyer,
E.T.A Hoffmann,
Elizabeth Harrod,
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann,
full-length,
Gargouillades,
Ivan Vsevolozhsky,
Jamie Bond,
Johan Persson,
Lev Ivanov,
Light & Fluffy,
Mariinsky,
Marius Petipa,
Mark Morris,
Matthew Bourne,
Nicholas Sergeyev,
Nureyev,
NYCB,
POB,
Prince Koklush,
Roberta Marquez,
Royal Ballet,
Rudolf Nureyev,
San Francisco Ballet,
Sir Peter Wright,
Sugar Plum Fairy,
Tchaikovsky,
The Nutcracker,
Valeri Hristov,
Vic-Wells Ballet
by Linda on November 18, 2009
Earlier this month we attended the Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Imagination and Psychological Insight Symposium at Imperial College London. Celebrating the choreographer who would have been 80 this year, this full day event was held in association with The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) and the Institute of Psychoanalysis and drew on psychoanalysts, scholars and dancers [...]
Tagged as:
A Lot of Happiness,
Antony Dowson,
Ashton,
Begoña Cao,
Birgit Keil,
Brian Elias,
Carousel,
Cindy Jourdain,
Clement Crisp,
Crown Prince Rudolf,
Deborah MacMillan,
Deutsche Oper Ballet,
Edward Watson,
Elite Syncopations,
ENB,
English National Ballet,
Fabian Reimair,
Freud,
Gloria,
Institute of Psychoanalysis,
Iohna Loots,
Irek Mukhamedov,
Jann Parry,
Kevin McKenzie,
Leanne Benjamin,
Mahler,
Manon,
Mayerling,
Michael Nunn,
Monica Mason,
Natalia Makarova,
Nichola McAuliffe,
Nicholas Hytner,
RAD,
Requiem,
Rodgers and Hammerstein,
Romeo and Juliet,
Royal Ballet,
Shostakovich,
Song of the Earth,
Stuttgart Ballet,
The Judas Tree,
Viviana Durante,
Vladimir Klos,
Wayne Eagling
by Emilia on November 15, 2009
For a while we have been meaning to write something here about “ballet myth busters”, to address certain preconceptions about this art form often seen as inaccessible, stuffy and niche. David Bintley’s Cyrano might be just what we needed to illustrate how ballet can be demystified. Created two years ago for Birmingham Royal Ballet, it [...]
Tagged as:
Birmingham Royal Ballet,
BRB,
Chi Cao,
Christian,
Corella Ballet,
Cyrano,
Cyrano de Bergerac,
David Bintley,
Edmond Rostand,
Elisha Willis,
full-length,
Iain Mackay,
Marion Tait,
Robert Parker,
Roxane
by Linda on November 12, 2009
As long as there are choreographers like Alexei Ratmansky around our hopes for the future of classical ballet as an art form are renewed. Now one of the world’s most sought-after choreographers, Ratmansky started his career as a ballet dancer with the Kiev Ballet in the Ukraine. Dancing soon took him out of Eastern Europe [...]
Tagged as:
ABT,
Alastair Macaulay,
Alexei Ratmansky,
Alina Somova,
Anna Karenina,
Anna Markeyeva,
Balanchine,
Benois de la Danse,
Bolshoi,
Bolshoi Academy,
Bournonville,
Christopher Wheeldon,
Clement Crisp,
Clive Barnes,
Debra Craine,
Dreams of Japan,
Ekaterina Krysanova,
Ekaterina Shipulina,
Flames of Paris,
Fyodor Lopukhov,
Gene Schiavone,
Gitte Lindstrøm,
Golden Mask Award,
Ismene Brown,
Ivan Vasiliev,
John Rockwell,
Kiev Ballet,
Léonide Massine,
Mads Blangstrup,
Marcelo Gomes,
Maria Alexandrova,
Mariinsky,
Moscow Choreographic Institute,
Natalia Osipova,
Nelli Kobakhidze,
Nikolai Tsiskaridze,
Nina Ananishvili,
NYCB,
On the Dnieper,
Paloma Herrera,
Pyotr Pestov,
Ratmansky,
Roland Petit,
Royal Danish Ballet,
Royal Swedish Ballet,
Russian Seasons,
Shostakovich,
Svetlana Lunkina,
Svetlana Zakharova,
Tatiana Kilivniuk,
The Bright Stream,
Twyla Tharp,
Veronika Part,
Vladimir Malakhov,
Vladimir Shklyarov,
Yuri Burlaka
by Emilia on November 9, 2009
If you follow dance on the internet chances are you will have heard of Daniil Simkin. He is the whiz kid (not just dance-wise but also tech-wise) who arrived last year from Vienna State Opera to stir some fresh buzz into American Ballet Theatre’s soloist ranks. His virtuoso dancing and various gala appearances, including the [...]
Tagged as:
ABT,
Alina Cojocaru,
Ashton,
Aszure Barton,
Athens Ballet Gala,
Avery Hall,
Benjamin Millepied,
Brahms Hayden Variations,
Company B,
Cyril Pierre,
Daniil Simkin,
Daria Klimentová,
David Makhateli,
Dragos Mihalcea,
Everything doesn't happen at Once,
Facebook,
Fancy Free,
Frederick Ashton,
Intensio,
Irina Kolesnikova,
Jerome Robbins,
Kevin McKenzie,
Lucia Lacarra,
Maria Kochetkova,
Marie Lindqvist,
MySpace,
One is Three,
Paul Taylor,
San Francisco Ballet,
Semyon Chudin,
The Dream,
Twitter,
Twyla Sharp,
Vienna State Opera,
World Ballet Festival,
YouTube
