by GermaineCheng on March 16, 2013
Is this ballet for you? Go if: You like John Hughes’s rom-com meets troubled teenager movies à la Sixteen Candles and Weird Science. Skip if: You prefer ballets with a stronger male role. The poor Franz doesn’t have much dancing to do until his big variation in the last act. Dream Cast: With her great technique and perfect [...]
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Alexandra Danilova,
Arthur Saint-Leon,
Émile Perrin,
Balanchine,
Ballet Comedy,
Charles Nuitter,
Coppélia,
Dr. Coppelius,
Enrico Cecchetti,
ETA Hoffmann,
Franz,
full-length,
Giuseppina Bozacchi,
La Source,
Leo Delibes,
Lev Ivanov,
Light & Fluffy,
Light and Fluffy,
Mazurka,
Nicholas Sergeyev,
Ninette de Valois,
Paris Opera Ballet,
Patrice Bart,
Petipa,
Sergei Vikharev,
Swanilda,
Vikharev
by Linda on August 27, 2010
Last month I attended the opening night of Laurencia by the Mikhailovsky Ballet. This Chabukiani ballet, very popular with audiences in the Soviet era and a vehicle for Russian virtuoso performers, had been dropped out of repertory somewhere around the seventies. For a while all that was left of it were selected extracts performed in [...]
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Alexei Ratmansky,
Bolshoi,
Chabukiani,
Doug Fullington,
Laurencia,
Le Corsaire,
Le Reveil de Flore,
Lev Ivanov,
Mariinsky,
Mikhail Messerer,
Mikhailovsky Ballet,
Pacific Northwest Ballet,
Paquita,
Petipa,
Pierre Lacotte,
Roland John Wiley,
Sergei Vikharev,
Sergeyev Collection,
Sir Peter Wright,
Stepanov Notation,
The Nutcracker,
The Pharaoh's Daughter,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Valeri Gergiev,
Vladimir Stepanov,
Yuri Burlaka
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
