Is this ballet for you? Go if: Red Hot Chili Carmen Skip if: Faux French or Pastiche Spanish are not your thing Dream Cast For Carmen Tamara Rojo because she is Spanish and fiery, plus her surname matches Carmen’s legendary red dress. Background Carmen goes back to 1845 when Prosper Mérimée‘s torrid novella used to [...]
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1-act,
Alberto Alonso,
Ana Laguna,
Ballet Nacional de Cuba,
Bennet Gartside,
Bizet,
Bolshoi,
Bullfighter,
Carmen,
Carmen Suite,
Cullberg Ballet,
Danila Korsuntsev,
Davide Bombana,
Dee Conway,
Don José,
Dramatic & Intense,
Escamillo,
Evgeny Ivanchenko,
Fate,
Irma Nioradze,
John Cranko,
Lauren Cuthbertson,
Mariinsky,
Mats Ek,
Maya Plisteskaya,
Micaela,
Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Natasha Razina,
National Ballet of Canada,
NBC,
Prosper Merimée,
Renée Zizi Jeanmaire,
Robert Alston,
Rodion Shchedrin,
Roland Petit,
Scottish Ballet,
Tamara Rojo,
Ulyana Lopatkina,
Yekaterina Kondaurova
by Emilia on January 12, 2010
New year, time to update our calendars and balletic schedules. In this post we share our essential ballet picks for 2010. With many of our favourite dances and dancers, plus so many companies stopping by London, we are feeling like seven-year-olds at large in a candy store. The difference being that ballet candy is somewhat [...]
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Ballet Nacional de Cuba,
Bolshoi,
BRB,
Chroma,
Cinderella,
Electric Counterpoint,
Elite Syncopations,
ENB,
Infra,
Jonathan Watkins,
K-Ballet,
La Fille Mal Gardée,
La Sylphide,
Mara Galeazzi,
Mats Ek,
Mikhailovsky Theatre,
Miyako Yoshida,
Polina Semionova,
RDB,
Roberta Marquez,
Romeo and Juliet,
Royal Ballet,
Rushes,
Sadler's Wells,
Steven McRae,
Swan Lake,
Symphony in C,
Teddy Kumakawa,
The Judas Tree,
The Little Humpbacked Horse,
Tryst,
Watkins,
Wheeldon
by Emilia on July 23, 2009
Going for thirty six days without any ballet is quite a challenge for a balletomane, therefore I could not pass up the opportunity of seeing Carlos Acosta & Guests Artists, a mixed ballet bag of short pieces featuring from modern Brandstrup to chic & classical Ashton’s Rhapsody, and ranging from the overdone (a “male” Dying [...]
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Amilcar Moret,
Arionel Vargas,
Ashton,
Ballet Nacional de Cuba,
Begoña Cao,
Ben Stevenson,
Brandstrup,
Carlos Acosta,
Dying Swan,
ENB,
Georges Garcia,
Hamburg Ballet,
Igor Kolb,
Ivan Tenorio,
London Coliseum,
Majisimo,
Neumeier,
Nina Kaptsova,
Othello,
Plisetsky,
Ramon Gomes Reis,
Rhapsody,
Ritmicas,
Roberta Marquez,
Spartacus,
Steven McRae,
Three Preludes
