Russian choreographer Yuri Grigorovich dies at 98
Yuri Grigorovich, the longtime choreographer at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, has died at 98. He was the artictic director of the theatre for more than three decades.
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Photo Album: The Hidden Gaze – Dance Behind the Curtain, the Corps de Ballet of La Scala as photographed by Gérard Uféras
A book and an exhibition at La Scala’s Museum show the dancers of La Scala observed though the lens of Gérard Uféras.
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Ukrainian dancer Volodymyr Rakov has been killed in action – he was 30
Volodymyr Rakov, a dancer, choreographer, and winner of the Ukrainian show So You Think You Can Dance, was killed in action on 6 January 2025. He was 30.
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Review: Les Étoiles gala in Milan – 21 dancers, 17 pieces, 3 hours of starry dance
Graham Spicer sees the Les Étoiles galas in Milan with ballet stars in thrilling pas de deux and seductive modern repertoire.
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Review: Ballet Nights 006 – high calibre works and artists going where the artistic wind takes them
Matthew Paluch sees Ballet Nights 006: “A collective of (generally) high calibre works and artists going where the artistic wind takes them.”
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Pacific Northwest Ballet in ‘Love and Loss’ with works by Alexei Ratmansky, Dani Rowe and Donald Byrd
Graham Watts sees Pacific Northwest Ballet’s triple bill ‘Love and Loss’, after getting to know the company via its streaming performances during the pandemic.
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Principal dancers leave the Mariinsky and Bolshoi companies
Principal dancers Jacopo Tissi and Xander Parish have decided to leave the Bolshoi and Mariinsky ballet companies after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Interview with Svetlana Zakharova: I was afraid of gaining weight
Interview with Svetlana Zakharova on touring, lockdown, her family, and her love of Italy.
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More than toes and fingers: Zakharova and her boys in Italy
An entertaining programme from Svetlana Zakharova and violinist Vadim Repin – Pas de deux for Toes and Fingers – brought a sold-out festival crowd to its feet.
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The Sleeping Beauty with Marianela Nuñez and Vladislav Lantratov at the Rome Opera Ballet
Jean-Guillaume Bart, former Étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet, created his version of The Sleeping Beauty for the Yacobson Ballet Theatre in St Petersburg in 2016. His POB colleague Eleonora Abbagnato — currently both an Étoile in Paris as well as director of the Rome Opera Ballet — asked him to adapt it for Rome…
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In conversation with Myriam Ould-Braham and István Simon
The annual, starry, late summer gala organised by American Ballet Theatre‘s Xiomara Reyes and Ballets du Monte Carlo’s Elías García for IBStage takes place at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu. Over 100 young dancers from the various summer ballet programmes which begin in mid-August, join international ballet stars, including Myriam Ould-Braham and István Simon….
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World Ballet Day 2015 with one day of live streaming from 5 companies
1 October 2015 is the date for this year’s World Ballet Day live stream. Following last year’s unprecedented collaboration for the first World Ballet Day LIVE, five of the world’s leading ballet companies will once again stream 23 hours of live, behind-the-scenes footage on Thursday, 1 October. The Australian Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, The Royal Ballet, The…
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Ivan Vasiliev turns choreographer for “Ballet No 1”
Tonight, Ivan Vasiliev makes a début in a new ballet. It is a special début, a double début, as it marks his first outing as a choreographer and, appropriately, it is entitled Ballet N°1. When you go on stage as a dancer, you are responsible for your own performance. Here I’m responsible for absolutely everything,…
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The year ballet wept… jealousy & rivalry at the Bolshoi
So 29-year-old Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko will go to prison for six years, and his career obviously ends here. His biography has been taken down from the company’s website and soon his picture will disappear from the ‘leading soloists’ page. What a lot of damage he’s caused: to himself, the international reputation of the Bolshoi company and…
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Meanwhile in Russia… Vaganova & Bolshoi latest
The Russian Ministry of Culture announced this morning that there would be an external inspection of the organisation of St Petersburg’s Vaganova Ballet Academy. It will examine the economic and educational structure for irregularities after “”the emergence of numerous items in the media, which refer to procedural violations at the Vaganova Academy”. Though, bizarrely, the Ministry…
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Bolshoi dancer beaten up by police
Pavel Dmitrichenko, the Bolshoi Soloist accused of organising the attack on the company’s director, Sergei Filin, was beaten up by masked police as he was taken back to prison following a pre-trial hearing. According to Izvestia, he was beaten by three police officers without apparent reason. Dmitrichenko was handcuffed, but they held him against a wall…
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Russian Culture Minister confirms that Tsiskaridze will return to the Bolshoi
The Russian Minister of Culture has confirmed that Nikolay Tsiskaridze will perform for the last time on the Bolshoi‘s stage in performances of The Nutcracker, leading up to his fortieth birthday on 31 December. At a meeting of the Theatre Workers’ Union this morning, the minister Vladimir Medina, together with Bolshoi director Vladimir Urin, said that these would be…
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Sergei Filin returns to the Bolshoi
Sergei Filin‘s surprise appearance at the end of the Bolshoi‘s performance of Jewels at the Royal Opera House in London was emotional for Bolshoi dancers and London audience alike. The Bolshoi’s Onegin, which premièred in Moscow last month, came about after Filin’s long negotiations with Cranko’s heir, Dieter Graefe. And so it was with Jewels,…
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Jailed Bolshoi dancer’s girlfriend defends him on Russian tv: He’s a wonderful man
Anzhelina Vorontsova, girlfriend of jailed Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko, has gone on Russian television and spoken for the first time in public of the acid attack on Bolshoi director Sergei Filin. The attack was supposedly instigated by Dmitrichenko, angry because Filin was not giving Vorontsova the roles he felt she deserved. Yet it was Filin who gave Vorontsova…
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Interview with Tamara Rojo
Tamara Rojo is at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as one of the judges for this year’s Benois de la danse, the ballet Oscars. Maria Sidelnikova from Kommersant took the opportunity to talk to her. She asked Rojo why she’d left the Royal Ballet. I’ve reached a point in my career, when I think it is important for…
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Mud will be slung tonight: Tsiskaridze and Volochkova expose prostitution at the Bolshoi
Ex-Bolshoi dancer Anastasia Volochkova and current Bolshoi star and stirrer Nikolai Tsiskaridze have been on Russian television to add even more mud to an already murky pond. The Bolshoi’s general manager, Anatoly Iksanov, has said that Volochkova’s claims that the company pimped out its ballerinas to rich patrons was “nonsense and dirt”. According to Bloomberg, Volochkova, who was fired in 2003 for…
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Bolshoi’s Sergei Filin: I would like to work again just as I did before. Without fear, without anxiety.
After undergoing several operations on both eyes, Boshoi Ballet director Sergei Filin yesterday faced a press conference in Germany where he is receiving specialised treatment. I have plenty of strength and I have the confidence and desire to get back what was wrongly taken from me. I will do everything, and the doctors who work with…
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Acid attacker’s partner was ex-girlfriend of Bolshoi director Sergei Filin?
Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko, who has admitted organising the attack on director Sergei Filin in January, has said that one of his principal motives was that his partner Anzhelina Vorontsova was being passed over for the top roles. According to an inside source at the Bolshoi, we’ve heard that Vorontsova had been romantically involved with Felin in the past. The Times said,…
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New YouTube videos: a starry Bayadère with Zakharova, Allash, Tsiskaridze, Ivata, Krysanova, Osipova and Nikulina from 2008
This was an inspired performance of Nikiya from Svetlana Zakharova. There are many videos of her in what is arguably her best role, but this is certainly one her finest performances. A magical evening in February of 2008. With her are Maria Allash as Gamzatti and Nikolai Tsiskaridze as Solor, both in splendid form. The Bronze Idol is…
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Vladimir Vasiliev is extraordinary in a 1960’s video of Goleizovsky’s ballet Leili & Madjnun
Vladimir Vasiliev in magnificent form in this extraordinary document of a fragment of a Kasyan Goleizovsky’s ballet “Leili & Madjnun” which was choreographed for the Bolshoi in 1960. Kasyan Goleizovsky (1892–1970) Russian dancer and choreographer. Leader of the experimental movement in Moscow in the 1920s. Sergei Balasanyan (1902-1982) Russian composer. Vladimir Vasiliev (1940), Russian ballet dancer. Was principal dancer with the Bolshoi…
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Bored at the Bolshoi?
What an extraordinarily unresponsive crowd to greet the opening of the newly restored Bolshoi Theatre. Ten seconds of timid clapping and then the television director honed in on bored faces, while bangs and scrapes came from the unlit stage during the scene changes. The whole approach, from lighting to graphics, was rather like that of…
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Grand Gala at the Kremlin with stars from Hamburg, Stuttgart, Bolshoi, Mariinsky, Mikhailovsky and Béjart companies
Stars from the Hamburg Ballet are heading to Moscow for a Kremlin Gala show on September 17 and 18. Soloists will perform various pieces by John Neumeier, the artistic director of the Hamburg Ballet, who will be the special guest at the gala . Two leading soloists of the German troupe, Héléne Bouchet and Thiago Bordin, will…
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Osipova and Vasiliev shine in the live relay of Don Quixote from Moscow
23 countries shared the experience of this broadcast in high-definition from the Bolshoi with 460 cinemas around the globe participating. Imagine the pressure that the dancers of this Don Quixote were under. How they rose to the occasion. Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev added in more difficulties than we saw at the New Stage in Moscow last year (and maybe…
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