by Linda on March 29, 2010
As the Royal Ballet’s founder choreographer, Sir Frederick Ashton is to them what Bournonville represents to the Royal Danish Ballet. He nurtured Ninette de Valois‘s young company and gave it an identity through pieces created to help develop its dancers. Ashton’s creations for the Royal Ballet shaped the English style of ballet, combining classical purity [...]
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A Month in the Country,
A Tragedy of Fashion,
A Wedding Bouquet,
ABT,
Alastair Macaulay,
Alicia Markova,
Anna Pavlova,
Apparitions,
Ashton,
Balanchine,
Ballet Rambert,
Birthday Offering,
BRB,
Bronislava Nijinska,
Capriol Suite,
Cecchetti,
Cinderella,
David Vaughan,
English Style,
Enigma Variations,
Façade,
Fred Step,
Ida Rubinstein,
Illuminations,
La Fille Mal Gardée,
Léonide Massine,
Le Baiser de la Fée,
Les Rendezvous,
Lydia Lopokova,
Margot Fonteyn,
Marguerite and Armand,
Marie Rambert,
Michael Somes,
Monotones,
Ninette de Valois,
Nocturne,
Nursery Suite,
Rhapsody,
Robert Helpmann,
Rudolf Nureyev,
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet,
Scénes de Ballet,
Sylvia,
Symphonic Variations,
Tales of Beatrix Potter,
Tamara Karsavina,
The Ballet Club,
The Camargo Society,
The Dream,
The Royal Ballet,
The Two Pigeons,
Ugly Sisters,
Vic-Wells Ballet
by Linda on November 27, 2009
Is this ballet for you? Go if: For the past few years you have overdosed on too many Nutcrackers and would like to see something different. You are dreaming of a White Christmas, sleigh bells in the snow, etc. Skip if: Cute and/or nostalgic Edwardian Christmases are not your thing. Background British ballet owes a [...]
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ABT,
Anna Pavlova,
Ashton,
Blue Boy,
Christmas Ballet,
Constant Lambert,
Elizabeth Miller,
Giacomo Meyerbeer,
Harold Turner,
June Brae,
L'Etoile du Nord,
Le Prophète,
Les Patineurs,
Light & Fluffy,
Margot Fonteyn,
Marie Rambert,
Mary Honer,
One act,
Pamela May,
Richard Bonynge,
Robert Helpmann,
Sarasota Ballet,
The Joffrey,
William Chappell
by Emilia on September 21, 2009
This week we have double reason to party. While at Covent Garden the Royal Ballet returns home for the 2009/2010 season, over here at the Ballet Bag we celebrate 6 months of online balletomania. To mark the occasion we have prepared a – non exhaustive – balletic timeline of sorts, to highlight some of our [...]
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ABT,
Anna Pavlova,
Auguste Vestris,
Balanchine,
Ballet Newbie,
Ballets Russes,
Bournonville,
Cecchetti,
Diaghilev,
Fokine,
Frederick Ashton,
Jewels,
Kenneth MacMillan,
Kim Brandstrup,
Les Sylphides,
Mariinsky,
Mayerling,
Ninette de Valois,
NYCB,
Ondine,
Royal Ballet,
Steven McRae,
Tamara Karsavina,
The Firebird,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Vaslav Nijinsky,
Veronika Part
by Linda on September 14, 2009
Is this ballet for you? Go If: You love classical ballet complete with fairy tale theme, tiaras, tutus, lavish décors and variations for almost every single dancer featuring every single ballet step. The Sleeping Beauty is also ideal for: classical music fans who want to live Tchaikovsky’s vision of the story, young budding ballerinas and [...]
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1890 Sleeping Beauty,
Alexandre Benois,
Alina Cojocaru,
Anna Pavlova,
Apotheosis,
Aurora,
Balanchine,
Ballets Russes,
Bluebird,
Carabosse,
Cattalabutte,
Classical Ballet,
Diaghilev,
Fairy Tale,
Genesia Rosato,
Hopelessly Romantic,
Ivan Vsevolozhsky,
Johan Kobborg,
King Florestan,
Léon Bakst,
Lilac Fairy,
Little Red Riding Hood,
Lopukhov,
Margot Fonteyn,
Marianela Nuñez,
Mariinsky,
Mazurka,
Ninette de Valois,
Oliver Messel,
Petipa,
Prince Desiré,
Prince Florimund,
Princess Florine,
Puss in Boots,
Robert Helpmann,
Rose Adagio,
Royal Ballet,
Sadler's Wells Ballet,
Sergeyev,
Stravinsky,
Tchaikovsky,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Vikharev,
White Cat
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, rigid hierarchical regime and which is still an ongoing influence for virtually every major ballet school in the world. Its creator, Enrico Cecchetti (1850-1928), was an Italian virtuoso dancer who would [...]
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Alicia Markova,
Anna Pavlova,
Ballets Russes,
Carlo Blasis,
Cecchetti,
Diaghilev,
Filippo Taglioni,
Frederick Ashton,
Giovanni Lepri,
ISTD,
Léonide Massine,
Mariinsky,
Method,
Ninette de Valois,
Royal Ballet,
Tamara Karsavina
Is this ballet for you? Go if: You are fond of white romantic vaporous tutus waltzing on the stage. Adagio (ie. slow) dancing makes you happy. Skip if: You prefer your ballets full-length and plot driven, with loads of pyrotechnics on the side. Themes Les Sylphides is a short (one act) plotless Romantic ballet, or [...]
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Anna Pavlova,
Ballet,
Ballets Russes,
Chopin,
Diaghilev,
Fokine,
Les Sylphides,
Light & Fluffy,
One act,
Romantic,
Tamara Karsavina,
Vaslav Nijinsky
