Comments on: Bag of Ballets

By: Emilia

Emilia — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:45:49 +0000

Hi Beth, suggestion noted, we’ll try to get one sorted soon

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:01:00 +0000

Could you do one for Don Quixote?I really would like to find a video link for the march in act 3.

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:58:33 +0000

We will have a Bayadère fact card soon, we promise!

By: Sarah Alice

Sarah Alice — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:29:39 +0000

La Bayadere would be a lovely addition (:

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:50:20 +0000

Hi Cathrine

There are many books out there and it is hard to give a recommendation without knowing exactly what you are looking for. Books on ballet history often deal with the social and cultural aspects of the time in which the art form shaped itself, and how the tradition was passed on. It depends if you are looking at a particular ballet tradition or company or even country. We’re currently reading Homans’s Apollo’s Angels, a ballet history book dealing with the social and political background of the art form. Another good resources is the Cambridge Companion series. There is one devoted solely to ballet.

By: Cathrine Katsigianni

Cathrine Katsigianni — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:33:58 +0000

I am a postgraduate student of Ballet Studies at Roehampton University(London)and I would like to find some material about tradition (historical and social/cultural aspects)in the arts and dance for my essay.Could you please point me to some resourses?
Many thanks Catrhrine

By: Emilia

Emilia — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:18:20 +0000

Great! Suggestions noted!

By: Rarar

Rarar — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:15:09 +0000

What about Coppelia and Don Quixote? ):

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:44:38 +0000

Hi! We will write (at some point) a fact card on Le Corsaire but given that you have little time and you are going today, here is a synopsis: http://bit.ly/bNps49
The good thing about the Bolshoi’s production is that Ratmansky and Burlaka made sure that the storytelling was clear. I took a friend yesterday and without telling her much she was able to follow the narrative.

Enjoy Osipova+Vasiliev. I’ll be there so if around please say hi!

By: Lady Red

Lady Red — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:36:43 +0000

Can you shed any light on the storyline of Le Corsaire please? I am going to see the Bolshoi production tonight and am not familiar at all. Wikipedia wasn’t much use other than background. Thank you ballet fans.