by Linda on January 3, 2014
A little under two years ago, English National Ballet seemed a stagnant company: not only had Wayne Eagling suddenly departed as Artistic Director, but faced with a 15% reduction in its funding, the company seemed overly dependent on long runs of The Nutcracker and Hollywood-inspired extravaganza Strictly Gershwin, attracting criticism along the way. Leaving aside [...]
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Alina Cojocaru,
English National Ballet,
Joan Sebastian Zamora,
Junor Souza,
Ksenia Ovsyanick,
Le Corsaire,
Matthew Golding,
Nancy Osbaldeston,
Royal Ballet,
Tamara Rojo,
The Nutcracker,
Vadim Muntagirov,
Wayne Eagling,
Yonah Acosta
by wschuster on October 23, 2013
by Linda on October 20, 2013
It’s a great time for Petipa here in the UK, as last week’s crop of ballets shows: The Royal Ballet’s Don Quixote was broadcast to cinemas, English National Ballet’s brand new Le Corsaire premiered at Milton Keynes (stay tuned for our review soon), while Birmingham Royal Ballet’s production of 19th century balletic blockbuster, The Sleeping Beauty, made a welcome [...]
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BRB,
Chi Cao,
Hopelessly Romantic,
Jenna Roberts,
Marius Petipa,
Nao Sakuma,
Natasha Oughtred,
Prince Florimund,
Princess Aurora,
Samara Downs,
Sir Peter Wright,
Tchaikovsky,
The Sleeping Beauty
by Emilia & Linda on October 9, 2013
by Emilia & Linda on September 29, 2013
Tomorrow’s gala performance of Carlos Acosta’s new Royal Ballet production of Don Quixote officially opens the Royal Ballet’s 2013/14 Season. It will be the first staging of this new Don Q. and we’ll be on site bringing you all the action: we’re teaming up with one of our favorite contributors, Dave Tries Ballet, to take [...]
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Carlos Acosta,
Don Quixote,
full-length,
Kitri,
Light & Fluffy,
Marianela Nuñez,
Minkus,
Narrative,
Petipa,
Season 2013-2014,
The Royal Ballet,
Thiago Soares,
Will Tuckett
by Emilia & Linda on September 25, 2013
…Other than the fact that he is – as revealed today – among the recipients of a “genius” grant? Well, if you need more reasons, take a look at our new guest blog for Behind Ballet (The Australian Ballet’s official blog), originally published ahead of Ratmansky’s brand new Cinderella for the company and reproduced below with plenty of [...]
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Alexei Ratmansky,
Cinderella,
full-length,
Hopelessly Romantic,
Premiere,
Prokofiev,
Ratmanskyness,
Season 2013-2014,
The Australian Ballet
