Japan is a balletomane’s paradise: plenty of local and visiting ballet companies, glitzy guest stars (some of them are here on a regular basis) and, of course, the best in ballet merchandise. In the trendiest Tokyo districts flagship dance stores sell premium quality dancewear and ballet shoes, along with – for those more intent on [...]
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by Emilia on March 12, 2010
Over the past few weeks the big ballet companies have been all over social media flaunting their new seasons, in some cases with fabulous, state of the art, trailers (like San Francisco Ballet and Dutch National Ballet). Hot on their heels and conspicuously earlier comes The Royal Opera House: their next ballet and opera [...]
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La Valse,
Lensky,
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Manon,
Mara Galeazzi,
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Myrtha,
Odette,
Olga,
Onegin,
Rhapsody,
Rite of Spring,
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Sarah Lamb,
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Sensorium,
Steven McRae,
Still Life at the Penguin Cafe,
Swan Lake,
Tamara Rojo,
Tatiana,
Theme & Variations,
Voluntaries,
Wayne McGregor,
Wheeldon,
Winter Dreams
by Emilia on January 12, 2010
New year, time to update our calendars and balletic schedules. In this post we share our essential ballet picks for 2010. With many of our favourite dances and dancers, plus so many companies stopping by London, we are feeling like seven-year-olds at large in a candy store. The difference being that ballet candy is somewhat [...]
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Cinderella,
Electric Counterpoint,
Elite Syncopations,
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K-Ballet,
La Fille Mal Gardée,
La Sylphide,
Macmillan,
Mara Galeazzi,
Mats Ek,
Mikhailovsky Theatre,
Miyako Yoshida,
Polina Semionova,
RDB,
Roberta Marquez,
Romeo and Juliet,
Royal Ballet,
Rushes,
Sadler's Wells,
Steven McRae,
Swan Lake,
Symphony in C,
Teddy Kumakawa,
The Judas Tree,
The Little Humpbacked Horse,
Tryst,
Watkins,
Wheeldon
by Emilia on December 19, 2009
Dear Santa,
We know we had a lucky year with many wonderful ballet tickets filling our bags. We had a great time writing over here and making plenty of new friends on Twitter and Facebook some of whom we had the pleasure of meeting in person.
Having managed to strike a good balance between work & play [...]
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Onegin,
Primrose Bakery,
Rodarte,
Royal Ballet,
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Song of the Earth,
Steven McRae,
Swan Lake,
The Little Humpbacked Horse,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Yevgenia Obraztsova,
Yvonne Borree
by Emilia on September 17, 2009
While at the main stage the Royal Ballet season kicks off in October with Mayerling, downstairs at the Linbury Studio the ROH2, Royal Opera House’s contemporary arm, makes a headstart next week with an exciting new collaboration between dancers Tamara Rojo, Thomas Whitehead, Steven McRae and choreographer Kim Brandstrup. Then, later in the season, Brandstrup [...]
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Goldberg Variations,
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Judith Mackrell,
Kim Brandstrup,
Laura Morera,
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London School of Contemporary Dance,
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Royal Ballet,
Royal Danish Ballet,
Rushes,
Steven McRae,
Tamara Rojo,
The Fall of the House of Usher,
The Idiot,
The Queen of Spades,
Thomas Whitehead,
Two Footnotes to Ashton
by Emilia on June 26, 2009
Better late than never! The Royal Ballet troupe are now well into their summer tour while ballet orphans count the days until the Mariinsky set up camp in Covent Garden to alleviate those dance blues.
That’s over here in London, but if you are lucky enough to be out there (see schedules below) over the next [...]
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Sergei Polunin,
Steven McRae,
Tamara Rojo,
Thiago Soares
