by Emilia & Linda on November 10, 2010
Last month Kanye West made the headlines in entertainment news for featuring ballet in his new epic music video/short film Runaway. In interviews West cited his love of classical dance as main motivation, while MTV has also pointed out the links between the video’s bird-like girl and Swan Lake. In a new guest post for [...]
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Chroma,
Dance Pulp,
Guest Blog Post,
Kanye West,
Lady Gaga,
National Ballet of Canada,
Polina Semionova,
Rihanna,
San Francisco Ballet,
SFB,
Swan Lake,
The Shins,
The White Stripes,
Wayne McGregor
by Emilia on September 13, 2010
Fans of Romantic masterpiece and audience favourite Giselle usually have a choice production against which they measure all others. Over here one of our favorites is Sir Peter Wright’s critically acclaimed staging, which returns to Covent Garden early 2011. We were reminded of its virtues and the respect Sir Peter shows for his source material [...]
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Myrtha,
Natalia Osipova,
NYMag,
Perrot,
Royal Ballet,
Sir Peter Wright,
Théophile Gautier,
Wired
by Emilia on September 1, 2010
Besides team Black Swan vs. team Mao’s Last Dancer, one of the most talked about dance topics of the last few weeks is Reflections, the Bolshoi/Orange County Performing Arts Centre collaboration. A number of Russian dancers are currently in California rehearsing for the project which will premiere early next year. When we spoke to Katya [...]
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Ekaterina Krysanova,
Ekaterina Shipulina,
Jiri Bubenicek,
Johan Kobborg,
Jorma Elo,
Karole Armitage,
Lucinda Childs,
Maria Kochetkova,
Mauro Bigonzetti,
Nacho Duato,
Natalia Osipova,
Orange County Performing Arts Center,
Polina Semionova,
Reflections,
Remansos,
Sergei Danilian,
Susan Marshall,
Wayne McGregor,
Yuri Possokhov
by Linda on August 27, 2010
Last month I attended the opening night of Laurencia by the Mikhailovsky Ballet. This Chabukiani ballet, very popular with audiences in the Soviet era and a vehicle for Russian virtuoso performers, had been dropped out of repertory somewhere around the seventies. For a while all that was left of it were selected extracts performed in [...]
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Doug Fullington,
Laurencia,
Le Corsaire,
Le Reveil de Flore,
Lev Ivanov,
Mariinsky,
Mikhail Messerer,
Mikhailovsky Ballet,
Pacific Northwest Ballet,
Paquita,
Petipa,
Pierre Lacotte,
Roland John Wiley,
Sergei Vikharev,
Sergeyev Collection,
Sir Peter Wright,
Stepanov Notation,
The Nutcracker,
The Pharaoh's Daughter,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Valeri Gergiev,
Vladimir Stepanov,
Yuri Burlaka
by Emilia & Linda on August 17, 2010
The many displays of audience appreciation for the last Bolshoi performances in London included a flower throw for two of the company’s most gifted leading soloists, Andrei Merkuriev and Ekaterina Krysanova. Having just captivated us with their chemistry as Basilio and Kitri, they acknowledged the sunflowers that poured from the Royal Opera House’s upper slips [...]
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Alexei Loparevich,
Alexei Ratmansky,
Andrei Melanyin,
Andrei Merkuriev,
Bolshoi,
Bolshoi Academy,
Bolshoi Theatre,
Damir Yusupov,
Dramatic & Intense,
Ekaterina Krysanova,
Interview,
Reflections,
Russian Seasons,
Svetlana Adyrkhaeva,
Vladislav Lantratov,
Yekaterina Krysanova,
Yelena Fetisova
by Linda on August 12, 2010
New chapter in our ongoing series of Ballet History articles, Linda looks at what the Bolshoi is made of: Bolshoi means big, an adjective that perfectly describes this ballet company. As the recent London season proves, they are bold, stylish and know how to put on a show. They are also resilient, having lived through [...]
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Ekaterina Krysanova,
Esmeralda,
Galina Ulanova,
Gayane,
Ivan Vasiliev,
Le Corsaire,
Leonid Lavrovsky,
Maria Alexandrova,
Maris Liepa,
Maya Plisetskaya,
Natalia Bessmertnova,
Natalia Osipova,
Romeo & Juliet,
Spartacus,
Svetlana Lunkina,
Svetlana Zakharova,
The Bolt,
The Bright Stream,
The Legend of Love,
The Red Poppy,
Vasily Tikhomirov,
Vladimir Vasiliev,
Yekaterina Maximova,
Yekaterina Shipulina,
Yuri Burlaka,
Yuri Grigorovich
