US-based dance photographer Brian Mengini is currently in London, working on a photo project with dancers from English National Ballet and The Royal Ballet. Brian lives in Pennsylvania and often works with the Pennsylvania Ballet and Boston Ballet. He recently shared with us his experiences shooting the Boston Ballet in rehearsal. In this new guest [...]
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Mariinsky in London: Balanchine & Robbins Dress Rehearsal
by Guest on August 9, 2011
The Little Humpbacked Horse
by Emilia on July 11, 2011
Is this ballet for you? Go if: you like coming of age stories, where the male hero has to overcome various obstacles, preferably dancing plenty of virtuoso steps along the way (in fact, all three main characters have challenging steps to negotiate). Do not be put off by the weird title: The Little Humpbacked Horse [...]
Tagged as: Alexander Gorsky, Alexei Ratmansky, Alina Somova, Arthur Saint-Leon, Cesare Pugni, Chamberlain, Imperial Ballet, Ivan, Ivanushka, Light & Fluffy, Light and Fluffy, Mariinsky, Marius Petipa, Maya Plisetskaya, Petipa, Radunsky, Ratmansky, Riccardo Drigo, Rodion Shchedrin, Russian Folk Tales, The Firebird, The Little Humpbacked Horse, Tsar Maiden, Viktoria Tereshkina, Vladimir Shklyarov, Vladimir Vasiliev, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Yuri Smekalov
Carmen
by Linda on May 8, 2010
Is this ballet for you? Go if: Red Hot Chili Carmen Skip if: Faux French or Pastiche Spanish are not your thing Dream Cast For Carmen Tamara Rojo because she is Spanish and fiery, plus her surname matches Carmen’s legendary red dress. Background Carmen goes back to 1845 when Prosper Mérimée‘s torrid novella used to [...]
Tagged as: 1-act, Alberto Alonso, Ana Laguna, Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Bennet Gartside, Bizet, Bolshoi, Bullfighter, Carmen, Carmen Suite, Cullberg Ballet, Danila Korsuntsev, Davide Bombana, Dee Conway, Don José, Dramatic & Intense, Escamillo, Evgeny Ivanchenko, Fate, Irma Nioradze, John Cranko, Lauren Cuthbertson, Mariinsky, Mats Ek, Maya Plisteskaya, Micaela, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natasha Razina, National Ballet of Canada, NBC, Prosper Merimée, Renée Zizi Jeanmaire, Robert Alston, Rodion Shchedrin, Roland Petit, Scottish Ballet, Tamara Rojo, Ulyana Lopatkina, Yekaterina Kondaurova
Bag of Steps: Turns
by Linda on October 31, 2009
We are back with another edition of Bag of Steps. This time we look at every turning trick designed to make us go “whoa” and typically reserved for the grand finale, such as in the coda from a Pas de Deux . Turns include female and male pirouettes and their offshoots. For the ballerina they [...]
Tagged as: ABT, Alina Cojocaru, Angel Corella, Ashton, Bag of Steps, BNC, Bolshoi, Carlos Acosta, Châines, Don Q, en dedans, en dehors, en tournant, Fouetté, Gillian Murphy, Lame Ducks, Leonid Sarafanov, Maria Alexandrova, Mariinsky, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Osipova, Pennsylvania Ballet, Piqué, Pirouette, Polina Semionova, Royal Ballet, Svetlana Zakharova, Tamara Rojo, Viengsay Valdés, Yekaterina Kondaurova
Sweet Little Sixteen
by Emilia on August 15, 2009
In the August edition of Dancing Times Magazine there is an interesting article which looks back on the history of the “Soviet Sleeping Beauty”, the version the Mariinsky have brought to this tour in London (they also have a Vikharev reconstruction of Petipa’s older version which is currently shelved though perhaps not permanently). According to [...]
Tagged as: 2009, Aurora, Carabosse, Clive Barnes, full-length, Igor Kolb, Lilac Fairy, London Tour, Mariinsky, Petipa, Prince Desiré, Review, Russian Ballet, Sergeyev, Soviet Version, The Sleeping Beauty, Vision Scene, Wedding Pas de Deux, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Yevgenia Obraztsova
The Mariinsky Ballet
by Linda on August 3, 2009
As the Mariinsky comes to the rescue of ballet-starved Londoners this week, we kick-off our series of features about ballet companies around the world, outlining their history, traditions and differences. Most readers will immediately associate the name Mariinsky to one of the premier ballet companies in the world but equally important are its links to [...]
Tagged as: Andrian Fadeyev, Anton Korsakov, Arthur Saint-Leon, Balanchine, Bournonville, Carlotta Brianza, Cecchetti, Coppélia, Diaghilev, Diana Vishneva, Fokine, Forsythe, Franz Hilverding, Galina Mezentseva, Galina Ulanova, Giselle, Igor Zelensky, Kirov, La Bayadère, La Sylphide, Lavrovsky, Lydia Lopokova, Maria Alexandrova, Maria Taglioni, Mariinsky, Maurice Béjart, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Mussorgsky, Napoli, Natalia Makarova, Ninel Kurgapkina, Olesia Novikova, Pas de Six, Petipa, Pierina Legnani, Raymonda, Rimsky-Korsakov, Roland Petit, Romeo and Juliet, Rudolf Nureyev, Russian Ballet, St. Petersburg, Swan Lake, Symphony in C, Tchaikovsky, The Magic Pills, The Nutcracker, The Pharaoh's Daughter, The Sleeping Beauty, Ulyana Lopatkina, Vaganova, Vladimir Shklyarov, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Yevgenia Obraztsova, Yuri Soloviev
