by Emilia on April 29, 2011
We hear you. You can’t stand the buzz about a “certain wedding” anymore. Everywhere you look, it’s all about fairy-tale endings, cheese and romance. You don’t care whether the bride will be wearing vintage McQueen, nor about who made it to the Queen’s private party. You refuse to watch the populist media coverage or to collect [...]
Tagged as:
ABT,
Antony Tudor,
Bronislava Nijinska,
Carlos Acosta,
Crown Prince Rudolf,
Dramatic & Intense,
Edward Watson,
Frederick Ashton,
Gamzatti,
Iohna Loots,
Kenneth MacMillan,
La Bayadère,
Les Noces,
Lilac Garden,
Marianela Nuñez,
Mariinsky,
Marius Petipa,
Mayerling,
Miyako Yoshida,
Nikiya,
Ondine,
Palemon,
Princess Stephanie,
Royal Ballet,
Solor,
Tamara Rojo,
Wedding Pas de Deux
by Emilia on February 2, 2010
When Linda and I were mulling over ideas for a Valentine’s special it seemed a no-brainer that the dancers we were looking for were Thiago Soares and Marianela Nuñez: we wanted to feature a ballet couple in head-over-heels, hopelessly in love mode; a couple so connected they could finish each other’s sentences and play along [...]
Tagged as:
Balanchine,
Before Sunrise,
Before Sunset,
Carlos Acosta,
Countess Larisch,
Crown Prince Rudolf,
Facebook,
Hopelessly Romantic,
Irlan dos Santos Silva,
Jewels,
Kenneth MacMillan,
Manon,
Marianela Nuñez,
Mayerling,
Onegin,
Only When I Dance,
Pas de deux,
Romeo and Juliet,
Sojournposse,
The Thomas Crown Affair,
Theatro Municipal,
Thiago Soares
by Linda on November 18, 2009
Earlier this month we attended the Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Imagination and Psychological Insight Symposium at Imperial College London. Celebrating the choreographer who would have been 80 this year, this full day event was held in association with The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) and the Institute of Psychoanalysis and drew on psychoanalysts, scholars and dancers [...]
Tagged as:
A Lot of Happiness,
Antony Dowson,
Ashton,
Begoña Cao,
Birgit Keil,
Brian Elias,
Carousel,
Cindy Jourdain,
Clement Crisp,
Crown Prince Rudolf,
Deborah MacMillan,
Deutsche Oper Ballet,
Edward Watson,
Elite Syncopations,
ENB,
English National Ballet,
Fabian Reimair,
Freud,
Gloria,
Institute of Psychoanalysis,
Iohna Loots,
Irek Mukhamedov,
Jann Parry,
Kevin McKenzie,
Leanne Benjamin,
Mahler,
Manon,
Mayerling,
Michael Nunn,
Monica Mason,
Natalia Makarova,
Nichola McAuliffe,
Nicholas Hytner,
RAD,
Requiem,
Rodgers and Hammerstein,
Romeo and Juliet,
Royal Ballet,
Shostakovich,
Song of the Earth,
Stuttgart Ballet,
The Judas Tree,
Viviana Durante,
Vladimir Klos,
Wayne Eagling
by Linda on October 29, 2009
Our Mayerling crusade continues with new casts, some debuts and thus interesting new takes on MacMillan’s iconic characters. There are very few lead roles that challenge a danseur’s technique, stamina and dramatic skills as does Crown Prince Rudolf and for Rupert Pennefather to have been offered the opportunity to dance it at such young age [...]
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2009-2010 Season,
Brian Maloney,
Countess Larisch,
Crown Prince Rudolf,
Edward Watson,
Elizabeth Harrod,
full-length,
Johan Kobborg,
Ludovic Ondiviela,
Marianela Nuñez,
Mary Vetsera,
Mayerling,
Melissa Hamilton,
Review,
Royal Ballet,
Rupert Pennefather,
Sergei Polunin,
Wayne McGregor
by Emilia on October 26, 2009
Kenneth MacMillan, one of the leading choreographers of the twentieth century, is credited with pushing the boundaries of classical ballet and challenging audiences to look beyond the idealised world of fairy tales into the reality and discomfort of their own mortal existence. With ballets that probed into all extremes of the human condition MacMillan found [...]
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Cindy Jourdain,
Clement Crisp,
Crown Prince Rudolf,
David Wall,
Deborah MacMillan,
Des Grieux,
Different Drummer,
Dramatic & Intense,
Edward Watson,
ENB,
Gloria,
Iohna Loots,
Irek Mukhamedov,
Kenneth MacMillan,
Kenneth MacMillan's 80th Anniversary,
Lauren Cuthberson,
Leanne Benjamin,
Lynn Seymour,
Manon,
Mara Galeazzi,
Mayerling,
Messenger of Death,
Michael Nunn,
Monica Mason,
My Brother My Sisters,
Nicholas Hytner,
RAD,
Romeo and Juliet,
Sir Peter Wright,
Song of the Earth,
South Bank,
Stephen Wicks,
Tamara Rojo,
The Judas Tree,
The Road to Mayerling,
Viviana Durante,
Wayne Eagling,
White Lodge
by Emilia on June 22, 2009
Is this ballet for you? Go if: You are tired of white ballets and of seeing male dancers perennially overshadowed by the ballerina. Mayerling, a tale of a crown prince’s descent into madness and murder, definitely puts the man on the spot. Think Hamlet with guns in lieu of swords & added drugs and you [...]
Tagged as:
Crown Prince Rudolf,
David Wall,
Dramatic & Intense,
Edward Watson,
Franz Liszt,
Johan Kobborg,
John Lanchbery,
Kenneth MacMillan,
Lynn Seymour,
Madness,
Marie Larisch,
Mary Vetsera,
Mayerling,
Nicholas Georgiadis,
Royal Ballet
