by Linda on March 24, 2010
Is this ballet for you? Go If: Sweeping & romantic Pas de Deux and the Swiss precision of a great corps de ballet are your bread & butter, especially when there are no tutus in sight. Skip If: You are more at ease with narrative MacMillan. Concerto is MacMillan threading Balanchine territory. Dream Cast First [...]
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Abstract,
Concerto,
Deutsche Oper Ballet,
Didi Carli,
Falco Kapuste,
Jürgen Rose,
John Cranko,
Lynn Seymour,
One act,
Rudolf Holz,
Shostakovich,
Silvia Kesselhelm
by Linda on January 8, 2010
Is this ballet for you? Go if: You can’t resist a tragic love story. New Moon is your favorite book of the entire Twilight Saga and you can quote a certain passage from Act II, Scene VI of Shakespeare’s play by heart (don’t worry we won’t tell anyone). You’ve never been to the ballet and [...]
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Alina Cojocaru,
Antony Tudor,
Ashton,
Bolshoi,
Capulet,
Christopher Gable,
Dee Conway,
Dramatic & Intense,
Edward Watson,
Franco Zeffirelli,
Galina Ulanova,
Hamburg Ballet,
Jean Christophe Maillot,
John Cranko,
John Neumeier,
José Martín,
Juliet,
Katherine Healy,
Kenneth MacMillan,
Kirov,
Konstantin Sergeyev,
Lauren Cuthbertson,
Lavrovsky,
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo,
Lynn Seymour,
Marcia Haydée,
Margot Fonteyn,
Mariinsky,
Maurice Béjart,
Montague,
Natalia Razina,
Nicholas Georgiadis,
NYCB,
Peter Martins,
PNB,
POB,
Prokofiev,
Richard Cragun,
Romeo,
Romeo and Juliet,
Royal Ballet,
Rudolf Nureyev,
Steven McRae,
Stuttgart Ballet,
The Royal Danish Ballet,
Thiago Soares,
Tybalt,
Vladimir Shklyarov,
Yevgenia Obraztsova,
Yuri Grigorovich
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 Linda on September 24, 2009
As the season kicks off Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB), one of the UK’s top three ballet companies, celebrates its 20th anniversary as a Birmingham resident. Over the years it has evolved from being the Royal Ballet‘s “touring arm” into shaping its own style: a mix of core repertoire alongside new original full-length narrative ballets, showing a [...]
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Alexander Campbell,
Ambra Vallo,
Anthony Dowell,
Antoinette Sibley,
Ashton,
Beauty and the Beast,
Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre,
BRB,
César Morales,
Chi Cao,
Cyrano,
Darcey Bussell,
David Bintley,
Elisha Willis,
Elmhurst School of Dance,
Joseph Caley,
Leanne Benjamin,
Lilian Baylis,
Lynn Seymour,
Miyako Yoshida,
Nadia Nerina,
Nao Sakuma,
Natasha Oughtred,
Ninette de Valois,
Old Vic,
Sadler's Wells Ballet,
Sadler's Wells Theatre,
Sir Peter Wright,
Sylvia,
Two Pigeons,
Vic-Wells Ballet
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 [...]
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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
