Emilia

Likes ballets that taste like 85% cocoa: pure, extra bitter, dark or intense. Her favorites are La Sylphide, Manon, Mayerling, Ondine, Symphonic Variations and McGregor's Chroma. Her favorite Ratmansky ballets are: The Little Humpbacked Horse, Russian Seasons, Cinderella and The Shostakovich Trilogy. She is always ready to chase new Ratmanskys around the globe. Non ballet: literature, theatre, opera, rock, art, food, travel, fashion, translating and interpreting.

Guillaume Côté in Nijinsky. Photo: © Aleksandar Antonijevic.

Interviews April 5, 2018

Guillaume Côté on Neumeier’s Nijinsky

By Emilia

The National Ballet of Canada is currently touring San Francisco with John Neumeier’s Nijinsky, a two-act ballet about the Ballets Russes icon who has long been a…

Ballet Around the World, Ballet History January 24, 2018

Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage

By Emilia

During Nutcracker season in California, we were lucky to catch Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage at the LACMA. This exhibition highlighted the principal role that…

Ballet Around the World, Review December 26, 2017

Nutcracker Season Unwrapped

By Emilia

Ballet lovers in the UK will probably agree with the view that Sir Peter Wright has made not just one, but two brilliant versions of…

Petrushka by Vladimir Varnava. Photo: © CONTEXT

Ballet Around the World, Contemporary Dance, Dancers November 13, 2017

Narrowing the Gap: Vishneva’s Context, Polina the movie

By Emilia

It’s hard to be a ballet fan in the Bay Area at this time of the year. While the San Francisco Ballet season starts…