Ashley Bouder becomes Executive Director of Eastern Connecticut Ballet
Ashley Bouder will become the new Executive Director of Eastern Connecticut Ballet (ECB), the top school for dance education in Connecticut, USA.
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Principal Dancer Ashley Bouder to give farewell performance with New York City Ballet on 13 February
Principal Dancer Ashley Bouder will give her final performance with New York City Ballet on 13 February following a 25-year career with the company.
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[Review] English National Ballet’s Our Voices triple bill – “Art isn’t easy… and it shouldn’t be.”
There’s a buzz in the air… The Our Voices triple bill at Sadler’s Wells feels like the arrival of a different English National Ballet.
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A seat at the New York City Ballet – debate rages outside, dancing rages inside. Fact.
Matthew Paluch contemplates the conflict he feels on taking his seat for New York City Ballet and seeing both sides with Team Balanchine and Team Feminism.
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[Review] New York City Ballet ‘Masters at Work: Balanchine & Robbins II’
New York City Ballet’s Masters at Work Balanchine & Robbins II programme: Square Dance, Afternoon of a Faun, Haieff Divertimento, and Donizetti Variations.
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New York City Ballet’s Ashley Bouder: Body shaming? Ageism? WTF?!?!!
Ashley Bouder wrote on Instagram “Just had a board member tell me that they don’t mind the extra weight on me. But maybe it’s time I look to a new career.”
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A captivating dance tribute to Stravinsky at Italy’s Nervi Festival
A captivating programme of dance dedicated to Igor Stravinsky on the 50th anniversary of his death launched the dance season at this year’s Nervi Music Ballet Festival.
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Stravinsky celebrated in music and dance at Nervi, Ravenna and Rome festivals
Nervi Music Ballet Festival 2021 celebrates the 50th anniversary of Stravinsky’s death in a programme of music and dance.
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Sofia Coppola to direct a film featuring New York City Ballet dancers
New York City Ballet has announced that Sofia Coppola will direct a film for the digital season, which will premiere online on Wednesday 5 May.
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NYC Ballet Digital Season Weeks One and Two starts 29 September
On Tuesday 29 September at 8pm EDT, New York City Ballet will release an all-Balanchine programme of Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and “The Unanswered Question” from Ivesiana, with excerpts from Symphony in C, Liebeslieder Walzer, Episodes, and Stravinsky Violin Concerto
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Week 6 of New York City Ballet’s six-week digital spring season
Next week will see the sixth and final week of programming of New York City Ballet’s six-week digital spring season.
On Tuesday 26 May at 8pm EDT, NYCB will release George Balanchine’s Donizetti Variations with Ashley Bouder and Andrew Veyette.
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Week 3 of New York City Ballet’s six-week digital spring season.
On Tuesday 5 May at 8pm (EDT), New York City Ballet will release George Balanchine’s Rubies, led by Megan Fairchild, Gonzalo Garcia, and Mira Nadon.
On Friday 8 May at 8pm (EDT), NYCB will release Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH, featuring Sara Mearns, Tyler Angle, Ashley Bouder, Gonzalo Garcia, and Joaquin De Luz, and set to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2.
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New York dancers come together for the 7th Annual Dance Against Cancer plus special all-male event
The American Cancer Society – Our Mission is to Save Lives, Celebrate Lives and Lead the Fight for a World Without Cancer! – is staging its 7th Annual Dance Against Cancer. Erin Fogarty Bittner, who is the Programming Director at Manhattan Youth Ballet, and Daniel Ulbricht, Principal Dancer at New York City Ballet, who have…
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Amodio and Luzzati’s worthy Nutcracker on tour in Italy
I have been visiting Italy for the last 25 years and it has been my home for most of that time. For a quarter of a century I have been hearing about a production of the Nutcracker which was very popular during the ‘80s and ‘90s when the company Aterballetto took the ballet on tour….
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Nutcracker in Milan – Bouder and Macario open tomorrow night
There is a rare opportunity to see Amedeo Amodio and Emanuele Luzzati’s glorious Nutcracker which has been dusted down and is ready to conqueror Italian ballet-goers once again. The famous production is from 1989, when Elisabetta Terabust and Vladimir Derevianko created the roles of Clara and Prince. At the Arcimboldi Theatre in Milan on 2 and…
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Amodio and Luzzati’s Nutcracker and Coppélia once again go on tour
One of the most charming and winning productions of The Nutcracker seen in Italy during the last fifty years, was created for the relatively small company AterBalletto. The company is now known as a contemporary group (it was transformed as such by former Artistic Director Mauro Bigonzetti, whose works dominated its programming from 1997); however,…
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New York Stars Ballet Gala in Rome, 8 March
New York City Ballet Principal Dancers Ashley Bouder, Joaquin De Luz, Amar Ramasar and Andrew Veyette are joined by company dancers Emilie Gerrity, Joseph Gordon, Spartak Hoxha, Alexa Maxwell and Indiana Woodward for a Gala performance in Rome. On 8 March in the Santa Cecilia Hall in Rome’s modern arts complex, the Auditorium Parco della…
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Black Swan Gala with Bouder, de Luz and Picone, tours Italy
The title may make serious fans of ballet balk: Gran Gala Il Cigno Nero – Black Swan Gala. If Daniele Cipriani, the producer, wants to cash in on some of the publicity from the Darren Aronofsky film of the same name, the content of the gala has nothing to do with the superficiality of the…
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Twitter is making ballet dancers human?
Just over a year ago the New York Times ran an article about Twittering ballet dancers. From London to San Francisco, Moscow to Sydney, we’re hearing about muscles and meals, seeing snaps of dressing rooms and sharing in the interval gossip. Making them human? Well, I don’t think anyone has doubted that during recent years….
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Bob-cut Ballerinas
Everyone has bad hair days, but just consider the plight of the ballerina: her locks are teased, sprayed and shellacked into submission. For dancers split ends or an unruly cowlick are first-world problems. What about receding hairlines caused by scraping the hair, day in and day out, into a bun? “Your teachers say that they…
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Ballet Twitter pics
Smartphone photos linked onto a tweet are a great way to let Twitter followers get a glimpse of where you are and what you’re up to. Everyone’s at it from Hollywood stars to football louts. Ballet dancers, creative by nature, are often clicking away and sometimes the results are shared. Now boys love toys, so…
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