by Emilia & Linda on November 29, 2010
The Royal Ballet will dance a unique production of Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet at The O2 arena in June 2011. It will be the first time the Company has danced in a UK arena and, in order to fully celebrate the occasion, there will be up to 2000 specially-priced £10 tickets at every performance. [...]
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by Emilia & Linda on October 22, 2010
by Linda on October 4, 2010
It takes more than a good story to make a narrative ballet work. The great choreographers of the 20th century explored novel ways to develop plots and convey emotions, moving away from the linear structures characteristic of 19th century classics (think Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty) in favour of more realistic works. With Onegin [...]
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by Emilia & Linda on October 1, 2010
John Cranko’s dance drama Onegin opened the Royal Ballet 2010/2011 Season yesterday. Based on the verse-novel by Alexander Pushkin the ballet centers on Eugene Onegin, a young aristocrat whose brief stay in the Russian countryside has a major impact on the families he befriends there, bringing about tragedy and change. Despite the dramatic and technical [...]
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by Linda on September 17, 2010
Is this ballet for you? Go If: You like story ballets with grand designs and plenty of pashmina Pas de Deux. You have read and wept through “unhappily ever after” novels like Anna Karenina, Gone with the Wind and well… Onegin. Skip if: You are expecting to hear the famous score from Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene [...]
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by Emilia on September 1, 2010
Besides team Black Swan vs. team Mao’s Last Dancer, one of the most talked about dance topics of the last few weeks is Reflections, the Bolshoi/Orange County Performing Arts Centre collaboration. A number of Russian dancers are currently in California rehearsing for the project which will premiere early next year. When we spoke to Katya [...]
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