The winner of English National Ballet’s 2015 Emerging Dancer Award is Jinhao Zhang. Zhang joined the Company just last year after graduating from English National Ballet School. He performed Dying Swan, which he choreographed himself, and also a pas de deux from Don Quixote with fellow nominee Isabelle Brouwers. On the judging panel were Leanne […]
Dying Swan
The Tricks of the Trocks: powder, ice and pointe shoes
The audiences laugh, sometimes the dancers laugh, but getting a dozen or so male dancers on pointe through more than one hundred performances a year is no laughing matter. Being a Trock is a serious business. I talked to three of the Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo company – Alberto Pretto from Italy, Chase […]
The Tricks of the Trocks: questions and answers with Carlos Renedo
Can you give a quick background leading up to how and why you finished up as a Trock? I was born and raised in Barcelona in Spain. I grew up always wanting to become an actor, and studied acting, as well as taking voice, Spanish guitar and magic lessons. It was later, when I was […]
Pippo Delbono, Marie-Agnès Gillot and Bobò – the étoile in the asylum
In just under two hours Pippo Delbono takes his audience on a rollercoaster ride from Dante to Pasolini, from a solo violin to a Verdi chorus, from contemporary dance to pointe shoes, from the elegance of an opera crowd to the squalor of an asylum. And here we touch on the heart of this piece […]
Diana Vishneva Gala Performance programme – Mariinsky Theatre, 23rd June 2011
PART I Errand into the Maze one-act ballet Music: Gian Carlo Menotti Choreography: Martha Graham Staging at the Mariinsky Theatre: Miki Orihara Sets: Isamu Noguchi Costumes: Edythe Gilfond Lighting: Jean Rosenthal Performed by Diana Vishneva and Ben Schultz PART II Melody (performed to a recording) Music: Antonín Dvořák Choreography: Asaf Messerer Performed by Olga Smirnova and Sergei Strelkov Russkaya Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky Choreography: Kasian Goleizovsky […]
Eddy Toussaint in Montréal on ballet for children
“There’s nothing better for me than to see their faces when Klara [Houdet] is dancing the Dying Swan. I’ve seen children almost cry at the end because they think she has died. That’s beautiful. That’s why I get up in the morning.”
