by Emilia & Linda on June 22, 2011
Stuttgart Ballet’s Sébastien Galtier started to take ballet pictures about four years ago as a hobby. He soon realised he could cross over photography with other media he liked, more specifically fashion and the visual arts. That allowed him to give a different context to his dance photos, taking well-known ballet characters into shots staged [...]
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Lady of the Camellias,
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Odette,
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Stuttgart Ballet,
Sue Jin Kang,
Swan Lake
by Emilia & Linda on May 6, 2011
We recently wrote about how many different elements have to come together for one of *THOSE* perfect evenings at the ballet. Designs and, in particular, costumes, play a big part in creating a mood, helping dancers express themselves and inhabit their roles. They come in all shapes, colours and fabrics: from vaporous Romantic skirts to [...]
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Titania,
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Yumiko Takeshima
by Emilia on February 26, 2011
Is this ballet for you? Go if: Swan Lake is a masterpiece of classical ballet and should be experienced at least once in one’s lifetime, preferably with a ballerina in full command of the technical and dramatic challenges of the central role and in a production that honours Tchaikovsky’s truly “epic” score. Skip if: You [...]
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by Emilia & Linda on February 18, 2011
“Move over, Natalie Portman: You may be favored for the Oscar in Black Swan, but there’s a real-life, flesh-and-blood ballerina generating heat as the swan queen!” says Jocelyn Novek, one of the writers quoted by Milan-based arts blogger Graham Spicer in a roundup of praise for the remarkable Odette/Odile of Sara Mearns. NYCB’s Mearns is [...]
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Gudrun Bojesen,
Hamburg Ballett,
Hélène Bouchet,
Heather Ogden,
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Staatsballett Berlin,
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Tamara Rojo,
Ulyana Lopatkina,
Viktoria Tereshkina,
White Swan,
Xiao Nan Yu,
Yuan Yuan Tan,
Zenaida Yanowsky
by Emilia & Linda on January 31, 2011
Black Swan continues to give ballet a much needed boost, with reports of increased box office demand for Swan Lake performances around the globe (we can almost hear the sound of artistic directors who have not scheduled the ballet this season kicking themselves) and stories of audience members calling the Royal Opera House to see [...]
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White Swan
by Emilia & Linda on November 26, 2010
The Ballet Bag & Adult Beginner are thrilled to announce a new collaboration: ballet webcomics! In the first of this new series we look at what happens when favorite ballet frenemies, Odette and Odile, walk into a bar… Credits – Concept: Adult Beginner & The Ballet Bag, Artwork: Adult Beginner, Copyright: Adult Beginner & The [...]
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