Michael Corder’s 2007 ballet, The Snow Queen, has joined the Czech National Ballet’s repertoire. Originally commissioned by the English National Ballet it has since had success in many companies worldwide. Julian Philips created the score arranging music from Sergey Prokofiev’s final stage work, The Tale of the Stone Flower, and the all British team is completed with Mark Bailey who created the sets […]
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Dance photographer Rick Guest… what lies beneath
Rick Guest is a photographer who’s highly polished style has led him to work with some of the biggest international brand names – Nike, Ferrari, BMV – yet he fell into photography by chance. I was between jobs and had a friend who was a model booker. She had some new guys starting out and […]
The Royal Ballet: Raven Girl / Connectome – first reactions and photos
Here are five of the first reviews out of last nights new double bill at The Royal Opera House: Wayne McGregor’s Raven Girl and Alastair Marriott’s Connectome. It runs until 24 October. RAVEN GIRL The lasting impression of Raven Girl however is of a visual and aural feast, daring in its simplicity, beautifully achieved in its mix […]
Alastair Marriott’s Zeitgeist in 3 seconds with Natalia Osipova
Alastair Marriott created Zeitgeist for Natalia Osipova and Edward Watson to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Ardani Artists. Debra Craine in The Times said, An elegant and dynamic ballet in which Osipova and four Royal Ballet men — Watson, Marcelino Sambé, Tomas Mock and Donald Thom — wound themselves around the elegance of their classical technique while […]
New York City Dance Project “capturing emotion through movement”
You’ve heard of the NYC Dance Project and seen its beautiful series of dance photos: carefully lit and glamorously shot. Its images, featuring some of the world’s best dancers, adorn thousands of blogs and Facebook timelines. There are so many NYCDP images out there that it a surprise to learn that the first post on […]
Audrey Hepburn glad to be home in a major new exhibition
Thirty-five photographs of Audrey Hepburn from the personal collection of her sons, Sean Hepburn Ferrer and Luca Dotti, will go on display in London’s National Portrait Gallery’s summer exhibition. Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon will explore the life and career of the film star, and is the first British exhibition to be organised with support from […]
Svetlana Zakharova captured by Vladimir Fridkes’ camera: Still Frame
At Moscow’s Multimedia Art Museum an exhibition of photographs by Russian photographer Vladimir Fridkes featuring Svetlana Zakharova has opened and will run until 8 March. The exhibition – called Svetlana Zakharova: Still Frame – is part of the IX Moscow International Biennale Fashion and Style in Photography 2015. Fridkes, a photographer for fashion magazines such as Vogue and Harper’s’ Bazaar, first […]
Audrey Hepburn to be celebrated in photos in London
65 years ago, Audrey Hepburn was a struggling actress and dancer in London, working occasionally in the renowned West End night club Ciro’s. That space is now home to the National Portrait Gallery’s Heinz Archive and Library, and now to celebrate the iconic figure the gallery is to stage an exhibition which will bring together a remarkable selection […]
Jack Devant, ballet photographer: freezing the beauty
There are thousands, millions, of dance photos scattered around the net, and most of the best come from just a handful of photographers. We know their copyright watermarks, we know their style, we read their names, but know relatively little about the people behind the lens. Jack Devant is one of those names, with his […]
Andrej Uspenski with Steven McRae in the Fast Lane
Andrej Uspenski has photographed Steven McRae over the past year, and the results can be seen in his new book, Dancer in the Fast Lane. The book contains more than 70 colour images taken from the wings, in rehearsal and during performances at the Royal Opera House. Australian McRae, one of The Royal Ballet’s most exciting […]
