by Emilia & Linda on June 17, 2011
Heads up on three very original cross collaborations between dance and other art forms taking place across different parts of the globe this week: 1) Ballet & Graphic Design: Pointe Blank A collection of original images inspired by the story of Coppélia. In a first-of-its-kind collaborative project for Birmingham Royal Ballet, 27 artists and designers [...]
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Aletta Collins,
Ballet & Culture,
Birmingham Royal Ballet,
Coppélia,
Dance & Ballet News,
Dr. Coppelius,
Linbury Studio Theatre,
Nikolaj Hubbe,
Paul Wesolek,
Pointe Blank,
Royal Danish Ballet,
Royal Opera House
by Emilia & Linda on December 31, 2010
It was a rollercoaster of a year for us. Topics like Black Swan, Jennifer Homans’s Apollo’s Angels and #Sugarplumgate kept us on our toes and led to interesting discussions and exchanges via social media channels. From an audience perspective we were curious to explore different productions and companies, so we traveled to Copenhagen, Tokyo and [...]
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Alexei Ratmansky,
Alina Cojocaru,
As One,
Asphodel Meadows,
Balanchine,
Bolshoi,
Bournonville,
Coppélia,
Emmanuel Thibault,
Giselle,
Johan Kobborg,
Jonathan Watkins,
La Sylphide,
Liam Scarlett,
Mariinsky,
Natalia Osipova,
Onegin,
Paquita,
Pierre Lacotte,
RDB,
Roberta Marquez,
Romeo and Juliet,
Royal Danish Ballet,
Russian Seasons,
Steven McRae,
Susanne Grinder,
Symphony in C,
The Little Humpbacked Horse
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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Alexei Ratmansky,
Aurora,
Bolshoi,
Boris Akimov,
Coppélia,
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
by Emilia & Linda on August 7, 2010
Following a 3-year gap London ballet audiences finally got the Bolshoi back in town for summer. A long season at Covent Garden meant we had plenty of time to see an enticing mix of well-crafted reconstructions, heritage ballets, contemporary pieces and world class performers. Here we recap on our favorite moments of the tour: Linda [...]
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Anastasia Stashkevich,
Andrei Mercuriev,
Coppélia,
Don Quixote,
Ekaterina Krysanova,
Giselle,
Ivan Vasiliev,
Le Corsaire,
London,
Maria Alexandrova,
Natalia Osipova,
Nikolai Tsiskaridze,
Nina Kaptsova,
Paquita,
Performance Roundup,
Petrushka,
Ratmansky,
Russian Seasons,
Serenade,
Spartacus
by Emilia on July 23, 2010
Reconstruction is the new black in London’s ballet summer season. The Mikhailovsky brought us earlier this week Mikhail Messerer‘s charming restoration of thirties success Laurencia (more on that later) and now the Bolshoi follows their opener Spartacus with something, in my opinion, far more interesting and entertaining: Sergei Vikharev’s reconstruction of the Petipa/Cecchetti original St. [...]
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Anna Leonova,
Ballet Comedy,
Bolshoi,
Coppélia,
Dr. Coppelius,
Ekaterina Krysanova,
Franz,
Gennady Yanin,
Ismene Brown,
Laurencia,
Light & Fluffy,
Mariinsky,
Mikhail Messerer,
Natalia Osipova,
Nikolas Sergeyev,
Reconstruction,
Ruslan Skvortsov,
Sergei Vikharev,
Swanilda
Japan is a balletomane’s paradise: plenty of local and visiting ballet companies, glitzy guest stars (some of them are here on a regular basis) and, of course, the best in ballet merchandise. In the trendiest Tokyo districts flagship dance stores sell premium quality dancewear and ballet shoes, along with – for those more intent on [...]
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Mariinsky,
Mayerling,
Noriko Kobayashi Ballet Theatre,
Paris Opera Ballet,
Royal Ballet,
Royal Ballet Tour,
Stars of the Russian Ballet,
Swan Lake,
Tetsuma Kumakawa,
Tetsuma Kumakawa Ballet,
The Australian Ballet,
The Ballet Bag in Japan,
Tokyo Ballet,
Tokyo City Ballet
