by Linda on August 27, 2010
Last month I attended the opening night of Laurencia by the Mikhailovsky Ballet. This Chabukiani ballet, very popular with audiences in the Soviet era and a vehicle for Russian virtuoso performers, had been dropped out of repertory somewhere around the seventies. For a while all that was left of it were selected extracts performed in [...]
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Alexei Ratmansky,
Bolshoi,
Chabukiani,
Doug Fullington,
Laurencia,
Le Corsaire,
Le Reveil de Flore,
Lev Ivanov,
Mariinsky,
Mikhail Messerer,
Mikhailovsky Ballet,
Pacific Northwest Ballet,
Paquita,
Petipa,
Pierre Lacotte,
Roland John Wiley,
Sergei Vikharev,
Sergeyev Collection,
Sir Peter Wright,
Stepanov Notation,
The Nutcracker,
The Pharaoh's Daughter,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Valeri Gergiev,
Vladimir Stepanov,
Yuri Burlaka
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 Fadeyechev,
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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Alexander Volchkov,
Anastasia Stashkevich,
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 Linda on December 13, 2009
The Royal Ballet’s Sleeping Beauties have just drawn to a close, giving way to the usual Christmas special of Nutcrackers. Notice anything in common? Both are Petipa ballets, both are amongst the safest for box office purposes, with blockbuster works such as Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, their lavish costumes, orchestral music and vast [...]
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Anastasia Kolegova,
Anton Korsakov,
Arthur Saint-Leon,
Coppélia,
Danila Korsuntsev,
Daria Pavlenko,
Elvira Tarasova,
Igor Kolb,
Imperial Ballet,
Jules Perrot,
La Esmeralda,
Le Corsaire,
Le Talisman,
Maria Alexandrova,
Mariinsky,
Mikhailovsky Theatre,
Nikolai Tsiskaridze,
Nutcracker,
Paquita,
Petipa,
Ratmansky,
St. Petersburg,
Svetlana Zakharova,
Swan Lake,
The Awakening of Flora,
The Little Humpbacked Horse,
The Pharaoh's Daughter,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Ulyana Lopatkina,
Vaganova,
Vaganova Academy,
Valeria Martynyuk,
Vikharev,
Vladimir Shklyarov,
Xenia Ostreikovskaya,
Yevgenia Obraztsova,
Yuri Burlaka
by Linda on July 24, 2009
On one side her admirers and knight-in-shining-armour defenders. On the other those who see her as an inconsistent performer. It doesn’t matter on which side one stands, all this debate has helped American Ballet Theatre‘s newest Principal dancer Veronika Part become the equivalent of a ballet cross-cultural phenomenon. Other than achievements such as her success [...]
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ABT,
Daria Pavlenko,
Gaynor Minden,
Gillian Murphy,
Inna Zubkovskaya,
Kevin McKenzie,
Le Corsaire,
Mainstream Media,
Marcelo Gomes,
Mariinsky,
Michelle Wiles,
Odette/Odile,
Paloma Herrera,
Ratmansky,
Raymonda,
Roberto Bolle,
Svetlana Zakharova,
Swan Lake,
Tony Mendez,
Vaganova,
Veronika Part
by Linda on July 16, 2009
In this post we continue to look at some of the big jumps that have historically filled the vision of many choreographers and which continue to fill the eyes of an audience. Our focus is on a set of common jumps, which tend to occur in almost every classical variation rather than on the flashy [...]
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ABT,
Albrecht,
Alla Sizova,
Angel Corella,
Aurélie Dupont,
Bag of Steps,
Balanchine,
Bolshoi,
Damian Woetzel,
Daniil Simkin,
dégagé,
Dutch National Ballet,
Giselle,
Gonzalo García,
Grand pas de chat,
Grand Sissonne Ouverte,
Le Corsaire,
Mariinsky,
Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Miranda Weese,
NYCB,
POB,
Poisson,
Saut de chat,
Sissonne,
Sissonne Doublée,
Stars and Stripes,
Technique,
Theme and Variations,
Tour en l'air,
Vladimir Shklyarov
