by Emilia & Linda on March 24, 2011
Two upcoming “dance in 3D” releases for the UK: Giselle The Mariinsky Ballet’s Giselle, the first ballet production to be filmed in 3D, will be screening across the UK on 29 March, 3 and 5 April. The filming in 3D is designed to create a pixel-perfect production which captures the movement of a world-class performance [...]
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by Linda on January 27, 2011
It has been over a year since we last added to our Bag of Steps library and we recently discovered – via survey feedback – that some readers missed this series. We now return with a post dedicated to “connecting steps”. These are employed by a dancer much in the same way as we would [...]
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by Linda on January 11, 2011
Is this ballet for you? Go if: Balanchine said it best “Like Hamlet, Giselle is a classic: it is not only important historically, it also happens to be good (…) People go to see Giselle and to see ballerinas dance it for the same reason we got to see new interpretations of Hamlet: the work [...]
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by Emilia & Linda on December 31, 2010
It was a rollercoaster of a year for us. Topics like Black Swan, Jennifer Homans’s Apollo’s Angels and #Sugarplumgate kept us on our toes and led to interesting discussions and exchanges via social media channels. From an audience perspective we were curious to explore different productions and companies, so we traveled to Copenhagen, Tokyo and [...]
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by Emilia on September 13, 2010
Fans of Romantic masterpiece and audience favourite Giselle usually have a choice production against which they measure all others. Over here one of our favorites is Sir Peter Wright’s critically acclaimed staging, which returns to Covent Garden early 2011. We were reminded of its virtues and the respect Sir Peter shows for his source material [...]
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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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