by Linda on March 24, 2010
Is this ballet for you? Go If: Sweeping & romantic Pas de Deux and the Swiss precision of a great corps de ballet are your bread & butter, especially when there are no tutus in sight. Skip If: You are more at ease with narrative MacMillan. Concerto is MacMillan threading Balanchine territory. Dream Cast First [...]
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Abstract,
Concerto,
Deutsche Oper Ballet,
Didi Carli,
Falco Kapuste,
Jürgen Rose,
John Cranko,
Lynn Seymour,
One act,
Rudolf Holz,
Shostakovich,
Silvia Kesselhelm
by Linda on November 18, 2009
Earlier this month we attended the Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Imagination and Psychological Insight Symposium at Imperial College London. Celebrating the choreographer who would have been 80 this year, this full day event was held in association with The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) and the Institute of Psychoanalysis and drew on psychoanalysts, scholars and dancers [...]
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A Lot of Happiness,
Antony Dowson,
Ashton,
Begoña Cao,
Birgit Keil,
Brian Elias,
Carousel,
Cindy Jourdain,
Clement Crisp,
Crown Prince Rudolf,
Deborah MacMillan,
Deutsche Oper Ballet,
Edward Watson,
Elite Syncopations,
ENB,
English National Ballet,
Fabian Reimair,
Freud,
Gloria,
Institute of Psychoanalysis,
Iohna Loots,
Irek Mukhamedov,
Jann Parry,
Kevin McKenzie,
Leanne Benjamin,
Mahler,
Manon,
Mayerling,
Michael Nunn,
Monica Mason,
Natalia Makarova,
Nichola McAuliffe,
Nicholas Hytner,
RAD,
Requiem,
Rodgers and Hammerstein,
Romeo and Juliet,
Royal Ballet,
Shostakovich,
Song of the Earth,
Stuttgart Ballet,
The Judas Tree,
Viviana Durante,
Vladimir Klos,
Wayne Eagling
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
