by Emilia on January 20, 2011
Hot on the heels of recent Twitter memes like #lessambitiousfilms and #lessambitiousoperas, members of the online dance community revealed their inner ballet nerds earlier this month, joining in the meme fun. Many of us spent hours not doing any work, thinking instead of #lessambitiousballets. A few of you asked us to collate these tweets for [...]
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Jewels,
Meme,
Raymonda,
Romeo and Juliet,
Social Media,
Spoof,
Swan Lake,
The Dying Swan,
The Four Temperaments,
The Prodigal Son,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Twitter,
Twitter Trends
by Emilia & Linda on November 23, 2010
Young choreographer Christopher Wheeldon created The Wanderers for The Royal Danish Ballet in 2008. This season the Company commissioned him to do a completely new version of The Sleeping Beauty. According to the RDB website his take on the classic is “a fantasy-filled adventure for both children and adults offering drama and sublime classical dance”. [...]
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Jane Simpson,
Jérôme Kaplan,
New Ballet,
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Season 2010-2011,
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The Sleeping Beauty,
Tornerose
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,
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Laurencia,
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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 Linda on July 26, 2010
The Sleeping Beauty is a staple of major classical troupes. Despite being an expensive ballet to stage, it is amongst those productions that ensure box office safety and keep dancers well drilled. It demands not only starry leads but a strong supporting cast to carry through endless variations and character roles like Carabosse and the [...]
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Julie Lincoln,
Kenneth MacMillan,
Lilac Fairy,
Nicholas Georgiadis,
Noriko Kobayashi Ballet Theatre,
Peter Farmer,
Petipa,
Review,
Roman Lazik,
Tchaikovsky,
The Ballet Bag in Japan,
The Sleeping Beauty
by Emilia on July 9, 2010
Polina Semionova, the 25 year-old Russian star at Staatsballett Berlin, is not only a very gifted dancer but also a social media phenomenon. Her appearance in Herbert Groenemeyer’s video Letzter Tag (Last Day) made her a big hit on YouTube and she has close to 40,000 fans in her Official Facebook page, which she personally [...]
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Christine Camillo,
Darcey Bussell,
Dmitry Semionov,
Dramatic & Intense,
Ekaterina Borchenko,
English National Ballet,
Esmeralda,
Gerhard Hasse-Hindenberg,
Giorgio Madia,
Giselle,
Herbert Groenemeyer,
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Jiří Kylián,
John Neumeier,
Juriy Vasuchenko,
Kameliendame,
La Bayadère,
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Manon,
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Mauro Bigonzetti,
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Nikiya,
Onegin,
Polina Semionova,
royal albert hall,
Staatsballett Berlin,
Swan Lake,
Tatiana,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Vladimir Malakhov
by Emilia on January 30, 2010
A while ago we wrote about the joys of seeing different casts in the same ballet. While classics such as The Sleeping Beauty do not leave much room for highly individual interpretations of the central roles they still provide an interesting study of technical and artistic abilities of different ballerinas. In that spirit we took [...]
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Marc Jacobs,
Marianela Nuñez,
Performance Roundup,
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