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
Yesterday Threw Everything At Me
Last Sunday I attended the “Tribute to Diaghilev”, a gala in celebration of 100 years of Ballets Russes and of its visionary mastermind, Sergei…
Bag of Steps: Eight Positions in Action
Continuing from the previous edition of Bag of Steps, where we looked at the eight positions of the body from which all the various…
Feet-like Fins
In this compelling article dance critic Alastair Macaulay examines what drives the archetypal “heroine of the water”, her allure, her psychological connotations. I recommend…
Soul Meets Body
Since mixed reviews (including our previous opening night write up) have plagued the Royal Ballet’s celebratory “Ballets Russes Triple Bill”, I approached last Friday’s…