The Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake: a photo gallery
This season, the Royal Ballet welcomed a brand new production of Swan Lake by its resident choreographer, Liam Scarlett. Replacing the previous staging by…
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…
Swan Lake
Is this ballet for you? Go if: Swan Lake is a masterpiece of classical ballet and should be experienced at least once in one’s…
Amazing Journey
As long as there are choreographers like Alexei Ratmansky around our hopes for the future of classical ballet as an art form are renewed….
New in the Bag
Bag of Steps: Big Jumps (Part 2)
In this post we continue to look at some of the big jumps that have historically filled the vision of many choreographers and which…
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
And now for something completely different. This post is for those in need of a styling hand to help assemble looks to wear at…
The Scientist
We now turn to one of ballet history’s most successful training methods: Cecchetti, a complete and structured system for dancers, which sets a strict,…
Season Awards
The 2008/2009 Royal Ballet season was filled with golden tickets, but which acts made the Bag Ladies tick the most? As we gear up…