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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Laurencia
by Linda on July 30, 2010
One Step Closer
by Linda on March 29, 2010
As the Royal Ballet’s founder choreographer, Sir Frederick Ashton is to them what Bournonville represents to the Royal Danish Ballet. He nurtured Ninette de Valois‘s young company and gave it an identity through pieces created to help develop its dancers. Ashton’s creations for the Royal Ballet shaped the English style of ballet, combining classical purity [...]
Tagged as: A Month in the Country, A Tragedy of Fashion, A Wedding Bouquet, ABT, Alastair Macaulay, Alicia Markova, Anna Pavlova, Apparitions, Ashton, Balanchine, Ballet Rambert, Birthday Offering, BRB, Bronislava Nijinska, Capriol Suite, Cecchetti, Cinderella, David Vaughan, English Style, Enigma Variations, Façade, Fred Step, Ida Rubinstein, Illuminations, La Fille Mal Gardée, Léonide Massine, Le Baiser de la Fée, Les Rendezvous, Lydia Lopokova, Margot Fonteyn, Marguerite and Armand, Marie Rambert, Michael Somes, Monotones, Ninette de Valois, Nocturne, Nursery Suite, Rhapsody, Robert Helpmann, Rudolf Nureyev, Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet, Scénes de Ballet, Sylvia, Symphonic Variations, Tales of Beatrix Potter, Tamara Karsavina, The Ballet Club, The Camargo Society, The Dream, The Royal Ballet, The Two Pigeons, Ugly Sisters, Vic-Wells Ballet
Romeo and Juliet
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 [...]
Tagged as: 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, Macmillan, 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
The Nutcracker
by Emilia on November 24, 2009
Is this ballet for you? Go if: you want to treat your kids, godchildren, nieces and nephews or even perhaps the kid in you. Skip if: Bah humbug! Dream Cast Sugar Plum Fairy: any ballerina who can do proper gargouillades Background The Nutcracker is a major example of a balletic twist of fate. The very [...]
Tagged as: ABT, Alastair Marriott, Alexandre Dumas, Alina Cojocaru, Balanchine, Baryshnikov, Bill Cooper, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Casse Noisette, Celesta, Clara, Drosselmeyer, E.T.A Hoffmann, Elizabeth Harrod, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, full-length, Gargouillades, Ivan Vsevolozhsky, Jamie Bond, Johan Persson, Lev Ivanov, Light & Fluffy, Mariinsky, Marius Petipa, Mark Morris, Matthew Bourne, Nicholas Sergeyev, Nureyev, NYCB, POB, Prince Koklush, Roberta Marquez, Royal Ballet, Rudolf Nureyev, San Francisco Ballet, Sir Peter Wright, Sugar Plum Fairy, Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, Valeri Hristov, Vic-Wells Ballet
The Mariinsky Ballet
by Linda on August 3, 2009
As the Mariinsky comes to the rescue of ballet-starved Londoners this week, we kick-off our series of features about ballet companies around the world, outlining their history, traditions and differences. Most readers will immediately associate the name Mariinsky to one of the premier ballet companies in the world but equally important are its links to [...]
Tagged as: Andrian Fadeyev, Anton Korsakov, Arthur Saint-Leon, Balanchine, Bournonville, Carlotta Brianza, Cecchetti, Coppélia, Diaghilev, Diana Vishneva, Fokine, Forsythe, Franz Hilverding, Galina Mezentseva, Galina Ulanova, Giselle, Igor Zelensky, Kirov, La Bayadère, La Sylphide, Lavrovsky, Lydia Lopokova, Macmillan, Maria Alexandrova, Maria Taglioni, Mariinsky, Maurice Béjart, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Mussorgsky, Napoli, Natalia Makarova, Ninel Kurgapkina, Olesia Novikova, Pas de Six, Petipa, Pierina Legnani, Raymonda, Rimsky-Korsakov, Roland Petit, Romeo and Juliet, Rudolf Nureyev, Russian Ballet, St. Petersburg, Swan Lake, Symphony in C, Tchaikovsky, The Magic Pills, The Nutcracker, The Pharaoh's Daughter, The Sleeping Beauty, Ulyana Lopatkina, Vaganova, Vladimir Shklyarov, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Yevgenia Obraztsova, Yuri Soloviev
