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The Royal Ballet Portraits

by Linda on June 29, 2010

One of our favorite topics, along with ballet myth busting, is ballet’s potential for crossover with other art forms. Besides its affinity with drama and music, ballet also naturally lends itself to collaborations with photography and art installations. A dancer’s ability to convey emotion with shapes, to create beauty in movement and [...]

Tagged as: Alina Cojocaru, Arts, Ballet & Culture, David Makhateli, Edward Watson, Exhibition, Laura Morera, Lauren Cuthbertson, Marianela Nuñez, Paul Smith, Paul Smith Space Gallery, Photography, Rupert Pennefather, Sarah Lamb, Steven McRae, Tamara Rojo, The Ballet Bag in Japan, The Royal Ballet, Tokyo

Houses of the Holy

by Emilia on May 28, 2010

In an interesting piece for The new Criterion novelist Laura James recently debated the watering-down of meaning and depth in modern ballet, arguing that:
If these dances were houses, no one would be able to live in them. And no one does.
I think I might like to live inside Chroma though. Just for a little while. [...]

Tagged as: 1-act, Abstract, Balanchine, Bizet, Chroma, Edward Watson, Eric Underwood, James MacMillan, John Pawson, Laura Morera, Mara Galeazzi, Marianela Nuñez, McGregor, Melissa Hamilton, Review, Ricardo Cervera, Royal Ballet, Rupert Pennefather, Sarah Lamb, Season 2009-2010, Sergei Polunin, Steven McRae, Symphony in C, Tryst, Wheeldon, White Stripes

On Melancholy Hill

by Linda on May 18, 2010

The Royal Ballet’s 2009/2010 season is coming to a close. In the first of two final mixed bills audiences had the opportunity to see a new work by an exciting young choreographer. Bookended by Christopher Wheeldon’s ballet-meets-art-installation Electric Counterpoint and Mats Ek’s irreverent Carmen was Asphodel Meadows, Liam Scarlett’s first ballet for the ROH [...]

Tagged as: 1-act, Abstract, As One, Asphodel Meadows, Bennet Gartside, Carmen, Electric Counterpoint, Johan Persson, Johannes Stepanek, Jonathan Watkins, Laura Morera, Liam Scarlett, Macmillan, Marianela Nuñez, Mats Ek, Poulenc, Review, Ricardo Cervera, Rupert Pennefather, Sarah Lamb, Season 2009-2010, Tamara Rojo, Wheeldon

Cinderella

by Emilia on April 13, 2010

Is this ballet for you?
Go if: You love the thought of a mashup between The Sleeping Beauty (a classical, grand ballet) and a funny work like La Fille Mal Gardée.
Skip if: Certain people find Prokofiev’s haunting score a tad too moody. And you may want to skip the Ashton version if Panto interspersed with dancing [...]

Tagged as: 32 fouettées en tournant, Alina Cojocaru, Ashley Page, Ashton, Ballet, Ben Stevenson, Bolshoi, BRB, Cecchetti, Charles Perrault, Christine Haworth, Cinderella, full-length, Galina Ulanova, Gary Avis, Hopelessly Romantic, Ivan Putrov, James Kudelka, Jean-Denis Malclès, Johan Kobborg, Judith Mackrell, Konstantin Sergeyev, Lev Ivanov, Light & Fluffy, Mariinsky, Michael Corder, Michael Somes, Moira Shearer, National Ballet, NBC, Nikolai Volkov, Nureyev, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Pamela May, Petipa, Pierina Legnani, Prokofiev, Ratmansky, Robert Helpmann, Roberta Marquez, Rotislav Zakharov, Sarah Lamb, Scottish Ballet, Stepsisters, Tamara Rojo, Toer van Schayk, Wayne Sleep, Wendy Ellis Somes, Yuri Possokhov

Fun That We Have

by Emilia on March 12, 2010

Over the past few weeks the big ballet companies have been all over social media flaunting their new seasons, in some cases with fabulous, state of the art, trailers (like San Francisco Ballet and Dutch National Ballet). Hot on their heels and conspicuously earlier comes The Royal Opera House: their next ballet and opera [...]

Tagged as: Alice in Wonderland, Balanchine, Ballo de la Regina, Des Grieux, DGV, Edward Watson, Giselle, Johan Kobborg, Kim Brandstrup, La Valse, Lensky, Macmillan, Manon, Mara Galeazzi, Marianela Nuñez, Myrtha, Odette, Olga, Onegin, Rhapsody, Rite of Spring, Royal Ballet, Rupert Pennefather, Sarah Lamb, Scénes de Ballet, Season 2010-2011, Sensorium, Steven McRae, Still Life at the Penguin Cafe, Swan Lake, Tamara Rojo, Tatiana, Theme & Variations, Voluntaries, Wayne McGregor, Wheeldon, Winter Dreams

La Fille Mal Gardée

by Linda on March 9, 2010

Is this ballet for you?
Go If: Girly and funny stories with plenty of romance, ribbons and happy endings are your thing and you simply can’t get enough of Ashton. You are bringing your kids or friends to see a ballet for the first time and need something light and fluffy to start with.
Skip If: People [...]

Tagged as: Alain, Alexander Gorsky, Alexander Grant, Ashton, Ballet, Bill Cooper, Carlos Acosta, Chickens, Clog Dance, Colas, Donizetti, Elssler pas de deux, Fanny Elssler, Ferdinand Hérold, full-length, Ivanov, Jean Dauberval, Jean-Pierre Aumer, John Lanchbery, Jules Perrot, La Fille Mal Gardée, Le ballet de la Paille, Light & Fluffy, Lise, Marianela Nuñez, Martini, Nadia Nerina, Nijinska, Pas de Ruban, Paul Taglioni, Peter Ludwig Hertel, Petipa, Ricardo Cervera, Roberta Marquez, Royal Ballet, Sarah Lamb, Tamara Karsavina, The Wayward Daughter, Virginia Zucchi, Widow Simone