by Linda on April 26, 2010
The past few weeks have felt like Ashton fest at The Royal Ballet. With two of his most loved full-length ballets in repertoire, Cinderella and La Fille Mal Gardée (which just ended its run), we could immerse ourselves in his lovely choreography. Ashton’s tricky combo of fast footwork and supple upper body may be testing [...]
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Light & Fluffy,
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Review,
Royal Ballet,
Sergei Polunin,
Yuhui Choe
by Emilia on April 24, 2010
by Emilia on April 21, 2010
Spotlight on Five Different Dance Blogs Blogs are a simple and effective way to communicate. Everyone can have one and there are many user friendly blogging platforms out there (Blogger, TypePad, Tumblr, WordPress, etc.). Of course they vary in quality and scope, but blogs have become an important tool for the ever-growing online dance community. [...]
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Thin and Dizzy,
Why Dance Matters
by Linda on April 20, 2010
by Linda on April 15, 2010
The Royal Ballet’s current revival of MacMillan’s Concerto, The Judas Tree and ragtime ballet Elite Syncopations closes tonight. We send it off with this quick look at Ian Spurling’s stylish lycra costumes which decorate Elite Syncopations with equal doses of psychedelia and 20s dance hall glitz. Background & Context 1974 had been a particularly challenging [...]
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Ian Spurling,
Jennifer Penney,
Kenneth MacMillan,
Merle Park,
Monica Mason,
Ragtime,
Scott Joplin,
Stop-Time Rag,
The Golden Hours,
Wayne Sleep
by Emilia on April 13, 2010
Is this ballet for you? Go if: You love the thought of a mashup between The Sleeping Beauty (a classical, grand ballet) and a funny work like La Fille Mal Gardée. Skip if: Certain people find Prokofiev’s haunting score a tad too moody. And you may want to skip the Ashton version if Panto interspersed [...]
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Christine Haworth,
Cinderella,
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Galina Ulanova,
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Hopelessly Romantic,
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James Kudelka,
Jean-Denis Malclès,
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Konstantin Sergeyev,
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Petipa,
Pierina Legnani,
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Roberta Marquez,
Rotislav Zakharov,
Sarah Lamb,
Scottish Ballet,
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Toer van Schayk,
Wayne Sleep,
Wendy Ellis Somes,
Yuri Possokhov
