Ballet Landscapes: An Interview with Alice Pennefather and Charles Haswell
For those who have followed the work of dance photographer Alice Pennefather for a while, her interest in filming dance will come as no surprise. With…
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Spring at the Royal Ballet: a Photo Gallery
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Guillaume Côté on Neumeier’s Nijinsky
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English National Ballet in rehearsal for Jerome Robbins’s The Cage
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The Royal Ballet’s Giselle: a Photo Gallery (3rd edition)
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Mark Bruce Company in Macbeth
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Ballet Black in Rehearsal with Cathy Marston
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Highlights
Unbound at SF Ballet: An Interview with Cathy Marston
San Francisco Ballet’s #Unbound2018 is a festival of 12 world premieres, split into 4 programs over 17 days. Linking all these new ballets is the…
Lady of the Camellias
Is this ballet for you? Go If: You like soapy dramas complete with beautiful costumes and designs. One for opera lovers too, even if…
Giselle
Is this ballet for you? Go if: Balanchine said it best “Like Hamlet, Giselle is a classic: it is not only important historically, it…
New in the Bag
A Fiery Spirit
The Royal Ballet’s newest Principal dancer, aussie Steven McRae, charmed the hearts of these Bag Ladies since his first appearances in Covent Garden. At…
Bag of Steps: Big Jumps (Part 1)
This post is devoted to big jumps, usually the territory of male dancers, though some of them are also done by ballerinas. These tend…
I’m Bound to Pack it Up (and go away…)
Better late than never! The Royal Ballet troupe are now well into their summer tour while ballet orphans count the days until the Mariinsky…
A Fond Farewell to Alexandra
It is hard to believe that someone like Alexandra Ansanelli, one of the Royal Ballet’s youngest principal ballerinas, is retiring, given all her accomplishments…