by Emilia on October 19, 2009
First of all, I am a great charlatan, although one of brilliance; second, I’m a great charmer; third, I’ve great nerve; fourth I’m a man with a great deal of logic and few principles; and fifth, I think I lack talent; but if you like, I think I’ve found my real calling — patronage of [...]
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Morphoses,
Sadler's Wells,
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
by Linda on October 14, 2009
Diaghilev was a man ahead of his time, a visionary capable of bringing together the most talented artists of his generation and nurturing them into creating new collaborative works of art. Had it not been for his vision, the West might never have known of Nijinsky, Stravinsky or Balanchine. The face of dance would have [...]
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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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Tamara Karsavina,
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The Sleeping Beauty,
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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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Diana Vishneva,
Fokine,
Forsythe,
Franz Hilverding,
Galina Mezentseva,
Galina Ulanova,
Giselle,
Igor Zelensky,
Kirov,
La Bayadère,
La Sylphide,
Lavrovsky,
Lydia Lopokova,
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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Last Sunday I attended the “Tribute to Diaghilev”, a gala in celebration of 100 years of Ballets Russes and of its visionary mastermind, Sergei Diaghilev. The event brought together many stars of the Mariinsky, Paris Opera Ballet, English National Ballet and Royal Ballet, dancing extracts of vintage pieces made or inspired by Ballet Russes choreographers [...]
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Irma Nioradze,
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