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2009

Kool Thing

by Emilia on December 30, 2009

As we prepare to send off 2009 and embrace a new decade, we look back into what was hot, fun & fab around the ballet blogosphere to pick our favorite things this year. Feel free to share yours too. Favorite Blog Posts Haglund Heel’s “ABT needs a Mayerling” campaign The coolest ballet campaign of the [...]

Tagged as: 2009, ABT, Bella Figura, BRB, Charlotte MacMillan, Clement Crisp, Crankocast, Daniil Simkin, David Bintley, Demicontretemps, E=mc2, Edward Watson, Eric Taub, Evan McKie, Facebook, Haglund's Heel, Hedi Slimane, Igor Kolb, Ketinoa, Mara Galeazzi, Marcelo Gomes, Mariinsky, Matthias Sarsgaard, Mayerling, Oscar Nielssen, Ratmansky, Royal Danish Ballet, Sanjoy Roy, Social Media, Stuttgart Ballet, Swan Lake Samba Girl, The Arts Desk, The Guardian, The Little Humpbacked Horse, Tonya Planck, Twitter, Veronica Part, You Dance Funny

Sweet Little Sixteen

by Emilia on August 15, 2009

In the August edition of Dancing Times Magazine there is an interesting article which looks back on the history of the “Soviet Sleeping Beauty”, the version the Mariinsky have brought to this tour in London (they also have a Vikharev reconstruction of Petipa’s older version which is currently shelved though perhaps not permanently). According to [...]

Tagged as: 2009, Aurora, Carabosse, Clive Barnes, full-length, Igor Kolb, Lilac Fairy, London Tour, Mariinsky, Petipa, Prince Desiré, Review, Russian Ballet, Sergeyev, Soviet Version, The Sleeping Beauty, Vision Scene, Wedding Pas de Deux, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Yevgenia Obraztsova

Don’t Drink Poison

by Emilia on August 8, 2009

Thinking of Lavrovsky’s Romeo and Juliet as completely obsolete is like saying German Expressionist cinema has no more value in a post Hitchcock world. The latter could not have existed without the former and it is always interesting to revisit original works and old schools, observing where choreographers like Cranko and MacMillan would have drawn [...]

Tagged as: 2009, Alina Somova, Boris Gruzin, Galina Ulanova, Igor Kolb, Irina Golub, Kenneth MacMillan, Lavrovsky, London Tour, Mariinsky, Romeo and Juliet, Vladimir Shklyarov, Yevgenia Obraztsova