by Linda on August 27, 2010
Last month I attended the opening night of Laurencia by the Mikhailovsky Ballet. This Chabukiani ballet, very popular with audiences in the Soviet era and a vehicle for Russian virtuoso performers, had been dropped out of repertory somewhere around the seventies. For a while all that was left of it were selected extracts performed in [...]
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Alexei Ratmansky,
Bolshoi,
Chabukiani,
Doug Fullington,
Laurencia,
Le Corsaire,
Le Reveil de Flore,
Lev Ivanov,
Mariinsky,
Mikhail Messerer,
Mikhailovsky Ballet,
Pacific Northwest Ballet,
Paquita,
Petipa,
Pierre Lacotte,
Roland John Wiley,
Sergei Vikharev,
Sergeyev Collection,
Sir Peter Wright,
Stepanov Notation,
The Nutcracker,
The Pharaoh's Daughter,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Valeri Gergiev,
Vladimir Stepanov,
Yuri Burlaka
by Emilia & Linda on August 23, 2010
Hot on the heels of the ballet reconstruction trend which hit London this summer (thanks to the Bolshoi and the Mikhailovsky Ballet), You Dance Funny’s Steve Ha brainstorms about authenticity in ballet. He illustrates his point with Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and the changes this piece has undergone throughout the years: …what exactly does [...]
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Balanchine,
Cult Blog Post,
Reconstructed Ballet,
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux,
You Dance Funny
by Emilia on August 20, 2010
The Black Swan trailer has finally been unveiled (it has featured in our video of the week box since Tuesday) and the internet is awash with commentary and dissection. While NY Magazine’s Vulture blog thinks the movie looks like a chic version of “Single White Female” with a bit of “Mommie Dearest” thrown in, Natalie [...]
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Ballet,
Black Swan,
Darren Aronofsky,
Mila Kunis,
Natalie Portman,
NYCB,
Roman Polanski,
Swan Lake,
Vanity Fair,
Vincent Cassel
by Emilia & Linda on August 17, 2010
The many displays of audience appreciation for the last Bolshoi performances in London included a flower throw for two of the company’s most gifted leading soloists, Andrei Merkuriev and Ekaterina Krysanova. Having just captivated us with their chemistry as Basilio and Kitri, they acknowledged the sunflowers that poured from the Royal Opera House’s upper slips [...]
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Alexander Petukhov,
Alexei Loparevich,
Alexei Ratmansky,
Andrei Melanyin,
Andrei Merkuriev,
Bolshoi,
Bolshoi Academy,
Bolshoi Theatre,
Damir Yusupov,
Dramatic & Intense,
Ekaterina Krysanova,
Interview,
Reflections,
Russian Seasons,
Svetlana Adyrkhaeva,
Vladislav Lantratov,
Yekaterina Krysanova,
Yelena Fetisova
by Linda on August 12, 2010
New chapter in our ongoing series of Ballet History articles, Linda looks at what the Bolshoi is made of: Bolshoi means big, an adjective that perfectly describes this ballet company. As the recent London season proves, they are bold, stylish and know how to put on a show. They are also resilient, having lived through [...]
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Alexei Fadeyechev,
Alexei Ratmansky,
Aurora,
Bolshoi,
Boris Akimov,
Coppélia,
Ekaterina Krysanova,
Esmeralda,
Galina Ulanova,
Gayane,
Ivan Vasiliev,
Le Corsaire,
Leonid Lavrovsky,
Maria Alexandrova,
Maris Liepa,
Maya Plisetskaya,
Natalia Bessmertnova,
Natalia Osipova,
Romeo & Juliet,
Spartacus,
Svetlana Lunkina,
Svetlana Zakharova,
The Bolt,
The Bright Stream,
The Legend of Love,
The Red Poppy,
Vasily Tikhomirov,
Vladimir Vasiliev,
Yekaterina Maximova,
Yekaterina Shipulina,
Yuri Burlaka,
Yuri Grigorovich
by Emilia & Linda on August 7, 2010
Following a 3-year gap London ballet audiences finally got the Bolshoi back in town for summer. A long season at Covent Garden meant we had plenty of time to see an enticing mix of well-crafted reconstructions, heritage ballets, contemporary pieces and world class performers. Here we recap on our favorite moments of the tour: Linda [...]
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Alexander Volchkov,
Anastasia Stashkevich,
Coppélia,
Don Quixote,
Ekaterina Krysanova,
Giselle,
Ivan Vasiliev,
Le Corsaire,
London,
Maria Alexandrova,
Natalia Osipova,
Nikolai Tsiskaridze,
Nina Kaptsova,
Paquita,
Performance Roundup,
Petrushka,
Ratmansky,
Russian Seasons,
Serenade,
Spartacus
