More than one dancer has been dubbed a “punk ballerina” but no one deserves it more than Sylvie Guillem, who has ruffled feathers at the world’s best companies, and at 50 years old is still on top.
Tag - Rudolf Nureyev
I rather warm to the Nureyev Romeo - its the big gory sweep of it, with more focus on the family feuding and a cinematic approach.
Cornejo is a splendid actor, as well as partner, but Ferri’s anguish is the tortured heart of the piece. Clarke has enabled her to be her age, a mature woman with a still-youthful body and ever- passionate emotions...
"You’re never too disabled, too blind, too old or too proud to be able to perform." - Wolfgang Stange. Jann Parry on the man, the company and their new show, 35 Amici Drive...
Next year I want to dedicate more time to teaching, and finally bring out my clothing line, under the brand Paloma Herrera...
It was only when I worked with Mats Ek that I understood who I was as a dancer.
Johan Kobborg took over as Director of Bucharest National Ballet just over a year ago. Time for Graham Watts to go and see how they are looking - in two very different bills...
The gala opened with the Act III wedding pas de deux from The Sleeping Beauty, performed by Ekaterina Osmolkina and Guiseppe Picone. No fish-dives in this version – the Russians regard them as vulgar, and Osmolkina could never be vulgar.
Full press release of English National Ballet's 2015/16 Season.
A popular visitor to Cannes, the company was welcomed with a packed house for their new Triple Bill...
"This is how ecstasy is danced." Kimin Kim in Concerto DSCH.
Born in Paris in 1958, Isabelle Fokine is the daughter of Vitale Fokine and granddaughter of choreographer Mikhail Fokine. She is artistic director of the Fokine Estate Archive, which holds the worldwide copyright to his work.
Question... What's the biggest audience noise you will ever hear in ballet? Answer... The roar of the audience at the end of the Royal Ballet School show at the Opera House.
Only the official retirement age of 42 requires him to leave the company, alas, though he may be invited back as a guest.
Like the best comedians, Ekman is as facetious as he is profound, leaving the viewer with plenty to ponder post-performance.
James Welsby’s 'Hex', which premiered as part of the 2014 Next Wave Festival, can be read as a kind of bookend to Bill T. Jones 'Still/Here'. It has been informed by more than twenty years of queer activism...
Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella is one of the great ballets of the 20th century and a triumph of his career.
John Craxton, the celebrated designer of Frederick Ashton’s Daphnis and Chloe, is the subject of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge...
Anna-Marie Holmes’s latest staging of Le Corsaire has proved to be a triumph for English National Ballet...
While some of the views expressed may not chime with your own, the fascination of this book is to understand how contentious maintaining and developing ballet as vibrant theatre often is.