by Emilia & Linda on January 31, 2011
Black Swan continues to give ballet a much needed boost, with reports of increased box office demand for Swan Lake performances around the globe (we can almost hear the sound of artistic directors who have not scheduled the ballet this season kicking themselves) and stories of audience members calling the Royal Opera House to see [...]
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Swan Queen,
White Swan
by kriskosaka on January 29, 2011
With The Tokyo Ballet’s premiere of Dances in the Mirror next week (Béjart Ballet Lausanne AD Gil Roman is in town rehearsing the company) followed by Bolero at the Stuttgart Ballet (Cranko, Van Manen & Béjart triple bill) it is a good time to recap on the Béjart canon. From Tokyo, Kris Kosaka guest blogs: [...]
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Danses Grecques,
Don Giovanni,
Elton John,
Firebird,
Le Concours,
Maurice Béjart,
Mika Yoshioka,
Mizuka Ueno,
Nijinsky the Clown of God,
Queen,
Sacre du printemps,
Sylvie Guillem,
Symphony for a Lone Man,
The Kabuki,
The Nutcracker,
The Rite of Spring,
The Tokyo Ballet,
Yui Nikaido,
Yukio Mishima
by Linda on January 27, 2011
It has been over a year since we last added to our Bag of Steps library and we recently discovered – via survey feedback – that some readers missed this series. We now return with a post dedicated to “connecting steps”. These are employed by a dancer much in the same way as we would [...]
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Les Patineurs,
Little Swans,
Maria Alexandrova,
Marianela Nuñez,
Natalia Osipova,
Pas de Bourrée,
Passé,
Plié,
Retiré,
Steven McRae,
Tombé,
Yuhui Choe
by Emilia & Linda on January 21, 2011
TenduTV released earlier this week the first-ever concert dance performances on iTunes. Critically acclaimed programs like Entity from Wayne McGregor|Random Dance and the Hans van Manen Festival from Dutch National Ballet are now available for download to own and rent on iTunes in the United States and Canada. Also available is the award-winning documentary 40 [...]
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Ivan Kozlov,
Lucia Lacarra,
Mariinsky,
Netherlands Dance Theater,
Random Dance,
Royal Winnipeg Ballet,
Ulyana Lopatkina,
Wayne McGregor
by Emilia on January 20, 2011
Hot on the heels of recent Twitter memes like #lessambitiousfilms and #lessambitiousoperas, members of the online dance community revealed their inner ballet nerds earlier this month, joining in the meme fun. Many of us spent hours not doing any work, thinking instead of #lessambitiousballets. A few of you asked us to collate these tweets for [...]
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Romeo and Juliet,
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Swan Lake,
The Dying Swan,
The Four Temperaments,
The Prodigal Son,
The Sleeping Beauty,
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by Linda on January 17, 2011
Giselle is a ballet that perfectly balances dance and narrative. Audiences are captivated in particular by its timeless second act, a living and breathing example of the Romantic ideal: on one side the revengeful, supernatural Wilis and on the other the ethereal Giselle whose love for Albrecht transcends heartbreak and death. The leading role has [...]
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Sergei Polunin,
Sir Peter Wright,
Tara-Brigitte Bhavnani,
Théophile Gautier,
Wilis
