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 July 30, 2010
Is this ballet for you? Go If: You love bold and spicy ballets à la Don Quixote. You’re all for feisty leading ladies and bravura dancing. Skip If: You can’t stand an endless parade of divertissements and folk dancing. You think serious historical plays should not be turned into light entertainment. Dream Cast Laurencia: Natalia [...]
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Dramatic & Intense,
Frondoso,
Fuente Ovejuna,
Kaleria Fedicheva,
Kirov Ballet,
Laurencia,
Light & Fluffy,
Lope de Vega,
Maria Alexandrova,
Maya Plisetskaya,
Mikhail Messerer,
Mikhailovsky,
Mikhailovsky Ballet,
Natalia Dudinskaya,
Nijinsky,
Ninel Kurgapkina,
Rudolf Nureyev,
Soviet Ballet,
Vakhtang Chabukiani,
Vera Tsignadze,
Yuri Soloviev
by Emilia on July 23, 2010
Reconstruction is the new black in London’s ballet summer season. The Mikhailovsky brought us earlier this week Mikhail Messerer‘s charming restoration of thirties success Laurencia (more on that later) and now the Bolshoi follows their opener Spartacus with something, in my opinion, far more interesting and entertaining: Sergei Vikharev’s reconstruction of the Petipa/Cecchetti original St. [...]
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Anna Leonova,
Ballet Comedy,
Bolshoi,
Coppélia,
Dr. Coppelius,
Ekaterina Krysanova,
Franz,
Gennady Yanin,
Ismene Brown,
Laurencia,
Light & Fluffy,
Mariinsky,
Mikhail Messerer,
Natalia Osipova,
Nikolas Sergeyev,
Reconstruction,
Ruslan Skvortsov,
Sergei Vikharev,
Swanilda
