by Emilia on March 12, 2010
Over the past few weeks the big ballet companies have been all over social media flaunting their new seasons, in some cases with fabulous, state of the art, trailers (like San Francisco Ballet and Dutch National Ballet). Hot on their heels and conspicuously earlier comes The Royal Opera House: their next ballet and opera season is [...]
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Kim Brandstrup,
La Valse,
Lensky,
Macmillan,
Manon,
Mara Galeazzi,
Marianela Nuñez,
Myrtha,
Odette,
Olga,
Onegin,
Rhapsody,
Rite of Spring,
Royal Ballet,
Rupert Pennefather,
Sarah Lamb,
Scénes de Ballet,
Season 2010-2011,
Sensorium,
Steven McRae,
Still Life at the Penguin Cafe,
Swan Lake,
Tamara Rojo,
Tatiana,
Theme & Variations,
Voluntaries,
Wayne McGregor,
Wheeldon,
Winter Dreams
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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Different Drummer,
Dramatic & Intense,
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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 September 7, 2009
From the moment Marie Taglioni put on her ballet shoes and stood on pointe the cult of the ballerina took flight. The ballerina, the female expert in the art of ballet who lives and suffers for her art, is forever associated with intrinsic qualities of lightness and grace. But just like Mr. Darcy’s remarks on [...]
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Cinderella,
Des Grieux,
Edward Watson,
Extensions,
Gelsey Kirkland,
Giselle,
Händel,
Maria Taglioni,
Mariinsky,
Merce Cunningham,
Musicality,
Port de Bras,
Princess Florine,
Robert Greskovic,
Sarah Lamb,
Spessivtseva,
Suzanne Farrell,
Swan Lake,
The Little Humpbacked Horse,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Ulyana Lopatkina,
Viktoria Tereshkina,
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