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 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
by Linda on November 12, 2009
As long as there are choreographers like Alexei Ratmansky around our hopes for the future of classical ballet as an art form are renewed. Now one of the world’s most sought-after choreographers, Ratmansky started his career as a ballet dancer with the Kiev Ballet in the Ukraine. Dancing soon took him out of Eastern Europe [...]
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ABT,
Alastair Macaulay,
Alexei Ratmansky,
Alina Somova,
Anna Karenina,
Anna Markeyeva,
Balanchine,
Benois de la Danse,
Bolshoi,
Bolshoi Academy,
Bournonville,
Christopher Wheeldon,
Clement Crisp,
Clive Barnes,
Debra Craine,
Dreams of Japan,
Ekaterina Krysanova,
Ekaterina Shipulina,
Flames of Paris,
Fyodor Lopukhov,
Gene Schiavone,
Gitte Lindstrøm,
Golden Mask Award,
Ismene Brown,
Ivan Vasiliev,
John Rockwell,
Kiev Ballet,
Léonide Massine,
Mads Blangstrup,
Marcelo Gomes,
Maria Alexandrova,
Mariinsky,
Moscow Choreographic Institute,
Natalia Osipova,
Nelli Kobakhidze,
Nikolai Tsiskaridze,
Nina Ananishvili,
NYCB,
On the Dnieper,
Paloma Herrera,
Pyotr Pestov,
Ratmansky,
Roland Petit,
Royal Danish Ballet,
Royal Swedish Ballet,
Russian Seasons,
Shostakovich,
Svetlana Lunkina,
Svetlana Zakharova,
Tatiana Kilivniuk,
The Bright Stream,
Twyla Tharp,
Veronika Part,
Vladimir Malakhov,
Vladimir Shklyarov,
Yuri Burlaka
by Linda on October 31, 2009
We are back with another edition of Bag of Steps. This time we look at every turning trick designed to make us go “whoa” and typically reserved for the grand finale, such as in the coda from a Pas de Deux . Turns include female and male pirouettes and their offshoots. For the ballerina they [...]
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ABT,
Alina Cojocaru,
Angel Corella,
Ashton,
Bag of Steps,
BNC,
Bolshoi,
Carlos Acosta,
Châines,
Don Q,
en dedans,
en dehors,
en tournant,
Fouetté,
Gillian Murphy,
Lame Ducks,
Leonid Sarafanov,
Maria Alexandrova,
Mariinsky,
Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Natalia Osipova,
Pennsylvania Ballet,
Piqué,
Pirouette,
Polina Semionova,
Royal Ballet,
Svetlana Zakharova,
Tamara Rojo,
Viengsay Valdés,
Yekaterina Kondaurova
