by Linda on January 11, 2011
Is this ballet for you? Go if: Balanchine said it best “Like Hamlet, Giselle is a classic: it is not only important historically, it also happens to be good (…) People go to see Giselle and to see ballerinas dance it for the same reason we got to see new interpretations of Hamlet: the work [...]
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Adèle Dumilâtre,
Adolphe Adam,
Albrecht,
Alicia Alonso,
Alicia Markova,
Alina Cojocaru,
Anna Pavlova,
Anton Dolin,
Augusta Maywood,
Ballet of the Nuns,
Camargo Society,
Carla Fracci,
Carlotta Grisi,
David Hallberg,
Dramatic & Intense,
Friedemann Vogel,
Gillian Murphy,
Giselle,
Heinrich Heine,
Hopelessly Romantic,
Johan Kobborg,
Jules Perrot,
La Sylphide,
Lorena Feijoo,
Lucien Petipa,
Maria Alexandrova,
Marianela Nuñez,
Marie Taglioni,
Marius Petipa,
Mathieu Ganio,
Mikhail Mordkin,
Myrtha,
Natalia Osipova,
Nikolai Sergeyev,
Olesya Novikova,
Olga Spessivtseva,
Paris Opera Ballet,
Robert le Diable,
Stepanov Notation,
Svetlana Lunkina,
Tamara Karsavina,
Théophile Gautier,
Vaslav Nijinsky,
Vernoy de Saint-Georges,
Wilis
by Emilia on September 21, 2009
This week we have double reason to party. While at Covent Garden the Royal Ballet returns home for the 2009/2010 season, over here at the Ballet Bag we celebrate 6 months of online balletomania. To mark the occasion we have prepared a – non exhaustive – balletic timeline of sorts, to highlight some of our [...]
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ABT,
Anna Pavlova,
Auguste Vestris,
Balanchine,
Ballet Newbie,
Ballets Russes,
Bournonville,
Cecchetti,
Diaghilev,
Fokine,
Frederick Ashton,
Jewels,
Kenneth MacMillan,
Kim Brandstrup,
Les Sylphides,
Mariinsky,
Mayerling,
Ninette de Valois,
NYCB,
Ondine,
Royal Ballet,
Steven McRae,
Tamara Karsavina,
The Firebird,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Vaslav Nijinsky,
Veronika Part
Last Sunday I attended the “Tribute to Diaghilev”, a gala in celebration of 100 years of Ballets Russes and of its visionary mastermind, Sergei Diaghilev. The event brought together many stars of the Mariinsky, Paris Opera Ballet, English National Ballet and Royal Ballet, dancing extracts of vintage pieces made or inspired by Ballet Russes choreographers [...]
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Albrecht,
Alexandra Ansanelli,
Ashton,
Balanchine,
Ballets Russes,
Bennet Gartside,
Daphnis and Chloe,
David Makhateli,
Diaghilev,
Dmitri Gruzdyev,
Dying Swan,
Federico Bonelli,
Firebird,
Fokine,
Gala,
Giselle,
Igor Zelensky,
Ilya Kuznetsov,
Irma Nioradze,
Le Carnaval,
Le Spectre de la Rose,
Le Tricorne,
Les Biches,
Les Sylphides,
Mara Galeazzi,
Maria Kowroski,
Marianela Nuñez,
Mariinsky,
Massine,
Mathias Heymann,
Mathilde Froustey,
Natasha Oughtred,
NYCB,
Petrushka,
Review,
Royal Ballet,
Russian Ballet,
Scheherezade,
Tamar,
Tamara Rojo,
Ulyana Lopatkina,
Vaslav Nijinsky,
Yevgenia Obraztsova
Is this ballet for you? Go if: You are fond of white romantic vaporous tutus waltzing on the stage. Adagio (ie. slow) dancing makes you happy. Skip if: You prefer your ballets full-length and plot driven, with loads of pyrotechnics on the side. Themes Les Sylphides is a short (one act) plotless Romantic ballet, or [...]
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Anna Pavlova,
Ballet,
Ballets Russes,
Chopin,
Diaghilev,
Fokine,
Les Sylphides,
Light & Fluffy,
One act,
Romantic,
Tamara Karsavina,
Vaslav Nijinsky
