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
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…