by Emilia on April 13, 2010
Is this ballet for you? Go if: You love the thought of a mashup between The Sleeping Beauty (a classical, grand ballet) and a funny work like La Fille Mal Gardée. Skip if: Certain people find Prokofiev’s haunting score a tad too moody. And you may want to skip the Ashton version if Panto interspersed [...]
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32 fouettées en tournant,
Alina Cojocaru,
Ashley Page,
Ashton,
Ballet,
Ben Stevenson,
Bolshoi,
BRB,
Cecchetti,
Charles Perrault,
Christine Haworth,
Cinderella,
full-length,
Galina Ulanova,
Gary Avis,
Hopelessly Romantic,
Ivan Putrov,
James Kudelka,
Jean-Denis Malclès,
Johan Kobborg,
Judith Mackrell,
Konstantin Sergeyev,
Lev Ivanov,
Light & Fluffy,
Mariinsky,
Michael Corder,
Michael Somes,
Moira Shearer,
National Ballet,
NBC,
Nikolai Volkov,
Nureyev,
Olga Lepeshinskaya,
Pamela May,
Petipa,
Pierina Legnani,
Prokofiev,
Ratmansky,
Robert Helpmann,
Roberta Marquez,
Rotislav Zakharov,
Sarah Lamb,
Scottish Ballet,
Stepsisters,
Tamara Rojo,
Toer van Schayk,
Wayne Sleep,
Wendy Ellis Somes,
Yuri Possokhov
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 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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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 August 3, 2009
As the Mariinsky comes to the rescue of ballet-starved Londoners this week, we kick-off our series of features about ballet companies around the world, outlining their history, traditions and differences. Most readers will immediately associate the name Mariinsky to one of the premier ballet companies in the world but equally important are its links to [...]
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Andrian Fadeyev,
Anton Korsakov,
Arthur Saint-Leon,
Balanchine,
Bournonville,
Carlotta Brianza,
Cecchetti,
Coppélia,
Diaghilev,
Diana Vishneva,
Fokine,
Forsythe,
Franz Hilverding,
Galina Mezentseva,
Galina Ulanova,
Giselle,
Igor Zelensky,
Kirov,
La Bayadère,
La Sylphide,
Lavrovsky,
Lydia Lopokova,
Macmillan,
Maria Alexandrova,
Maria Taglioni,
Mariinsky,
Maurice Béjart,
Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Mussorgsky,
Napoli,
Natalia Makarova,
Ninel Kurgapkina,
Olesia Novikova,
Pas de Six,
Petipa,
Pierina Legnani,
Raymonda,
Rimsky-Korsakov,
Roland Petit,
Romeo and Juliet,
Rudolf Nureyev,
Russian Ballet,
St. Petersburg,
Swan Lake,
Symphony in C,
Tchaikovsky,
The Magic Pills,
The Nutcracker,
The Pharaoh's Daughter,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Ulyana Lopatkina,
Vaganova,
Vladimir Shklyarov,
Yekaterina Kondaurova,
Yevgenia Obraztsova,
Yuri Soloviev
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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Anna Pavlova,
Ballets Russes,
Carlo Blasis,
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Diaghilev,
Filippo Taglioni,
Frederick Ashton,
Giovanni Lepri,
ISTD,
Léonide Massine,
Mariinsky,
Method,
Ninette de Valois,
Royal Ballet,
Tamara Karsavina
