by Emilia & Linda on November 17, 2010
Together with our awesome sponsor Yumiko we have a new Black Swan giveaway. Four collector posters will be up for grabs (NB: see how to enter below) and this, along with the movie’s imminent US release (3 December, who else is counting down?), was the perfect excuse for us to scour the internet for the [...]
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Amy Westcott,
Ballet on film,
Benjamin Millepied,
Black Swan,
Competition,
Darren Aronofsky,
Dramatic & Intense,
Fox Searchlight,
I Just Want to be Perfect,
Mila Kunis,
Natalie Portman,
NYCB,
Odette,
Odile,
Promotion,
Swan Lake,
Videos,
Yumiko
by Linda on June 27, 2009
This post is devoted to big jumps, usually the territory of male dancers, though some of them are also done by ballerinas. These tend to draw gasps and applause from audiences (after all, some of them are extremely hard!) and comments in dance reviews. Given there are plenty of jumps in the ballet syllabus, we [...]
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Alina Cojocaru,
Bag of Steps,
Barrel Turns,
Cabriolé,
Carlos Acosta,
Dennis Matvienko,
Entrelacé,
Houston Ballet,
Jeté,
Johan Kobborg,
Mariinsky,
Randy Herrera,
Royal Ballet,
Saut de Basque,
Technique,
Videos