Review: Ivan Putrov’s Dance for Ukraine gala – raising funds to support ballet students
Graham Watts praises Dance for Ukraine – a very fine show, worthy of fulsome support.
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Interview: Ivan Putrov on the Dance for Ukraine gala at the Royal Academy of Dance
Darcey Bussell, President of the Royal Academy of Dance, and Ivan Putrov present a ballet gala to support ballet students in Ukraine, on Saturday 21 March.
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Review: The Royal Ballet revives Glen Tetley’s Pierrot Lunaire
Graham Watts sees Marcelino Sambé, Mayara Magri and Matthew Ball in Pierrot Lunaire, celebrating Glen Tetley’s centenary.
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The Royal Ballet celebrates Glen Tetley’s centenary with Pierrot Lunaire
The Royal Ballet celebrates the centenary of Glen Tetley’s birth this February with a revival of his masterwork Pierrot Lunaire.
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The second Dance for Ukraine gala at The London Palladium
Ivan Putrov’s second Dance for Ukraine gala in support of his home country, ahead of the anniversary of the war, will be held on Sunday 18 February 2024.
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[Review] Men in Motion: the male dance spectacular still delivers, ten years on
Ivan Putrov’s Men in Motion celebrates its tenth anniversary at the London Coliseum with an international cast of male dancers.
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Male ballet stars line up for Men in Motion’s 10th anniversary show
This autumn, Men in Motion celebrates its 10th anniversary with a one-off performance at the London Coliseum on Sunday 6 November.
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Paris Opera Ballet at the Hollywood Bowl – complete programme
The Paris Opera Ballet returns to international touring, performing two performances at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
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Marquee TV to stream London’s Dance for Ukraine gala
Marquee TV will stream Dance for Ukraine, the charity gala performed at the London Coliseum on 19 March. It will be available to view from 14 – 24 April 2022.
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Natalia Osipova and international ballet stars dance for Ukraine
Former Royal Ballet stars Ivan Putrov (Ukraine) and Alina Cojocaru (Romania) are putting on Dance for Ukraine, a benefit gala at the London Coliseum.
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UK’s National Dance Awards announced
This year’s National Dance Awards were announced yesterday at a streamed event from Cervantes Theatre in London.
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Online masterclasses with Ivan Putrov and Vadim Muntagirov
Booking open for online ballet masterclasses with Ivan Putrov and Vadim Muntagirov from the Danceworks studios in London: 17 and 24 April 2021
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Ivan Putrov is once again swimming Against the Stream with a new project at The London Coliseum
Ivan Putrov, former principal of The Royal Ballet who conceived and produced the Men in Motion galas starting in 2012 — which he continues to produce — has a new venture. Against the Stream, a one-off gala performance, will celebrate some of ballet’s greatest pioneers. The evening will celebrate some of the remarkable choreographers who…
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Ivan Putrov’s Men in Motion at the London Coliseum in pictures
The reviews may have been less positive for Ivan Putrov‘s Men in Motion than past editions — in 2012, Judith Mackrell for The Guardian wrote that the programme was “one of real intelligence and surprising moments of passion” — but the evening got off on the wrong foot. Daniel Proietto’s monologue was an introductory piece…
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Susana B Williams and her Choreographers’ Showcase return to Edinburgh
Susana B Williams has been bringing her Choreographers’ Showcases to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for 15 years. Her company, Dance-Forms, will have managed 72 such events by the time the doors open at the Emerald Theatre on 15 August having produced Showcases from Chile to Croatia, Greece to Guatemala, Monaco to Mexico. I asked her…
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Svetlana Zakharova’s Gala brings the Ukraine to the heart of Russia
Last night, Svetlana Zakharova’s Gala Ballet without Borders took place on the Bolshoi stage in Moscow. Ballet stars danced in support of young dancers in war-torn Ukraine. This politically sensitive event was Zakharova’s idea: she is Ukrainian and also a People’s Artist of Russia, completing her training in Kiev and now a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre, so…
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Men in Motion’s magic under the Tuscan sky
In 2012, Ivan Putrov had the conceit to produce an all-male gala where Don Q variations were banished, Le Corsaire‘s jetés outlawed, and Albrecht’s entrechats six forbidden on pain of death. It short, he wanted to do something different in forming Men in Motion: a celebration of male dancing from Nijinsky to now. Putrov assembled…
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Men in Motion at La Versiliana Festival: classics, premières and surprises
The latest incarnation of Ivan Putrov‘s Men in Motion comes to Italy’s La Versiliana Festival. Men in Motion was first presented at Sadler’s Wells in 2012 and has since been performed with great success in Moscow and at the Ravenna Festival, Italy. This version, first presented in London at the Coliseum in January of this…
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Sergei Polunin loses his right to work in the UK
Sergei Polunin has had his UK work permit revoked. The Ukrainian-born star, 22, automatically lost the right to work in the country following his surprise resignation as the company is legally required to alert the UK Border Agency as soon as any of its foreign dancers resign. A Royal Ballet spokesperson said, Having resigned, Sergei…
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Janet-Street-Porter on the three ballerini: Polunin, Proietto and Putrov break the mould
The Three Tenors, says Janet-Street-Porter, brought opera to an entirely new audience, using popular material performed in arenas, not concert halls. Can former Royal Ballet star Ivan Putrov do the same for ballet? His brilliant idea is an evening of spectacular dancing, Men in Motion. The biggest draw, after a tumultuous week in which he walked out…
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Ex-Royal Ballet dancer Ivan Putrov states that the company’s dancers are not artists, but defecting colleague Sergei Polunin is…
Commenting on Sergei Polunin‘s surprise exit from the Royal Ballet, fellow Ukrainian and ex-Royal principal Ivan Putrov, has probably upset a number of his dancer colleagues. In an interview with the BBC he said, Being in a company has this element that you are sometimes told what to do. If you want to be part of the…
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The BBC will transmit the Pet Shop Boys ballet with Ivan Putrov on July 1
As part of its weekend of contemporary dance performance, BBC Four will broadcast The Most Incredible Thing, the new, full-length dance piece which premièred at Sadler’s Wells in London earlier this year, featuring music by electronic pop legends the Pet Shop Boys and choreographed and directed by Javier de Frutos. The programme will go out…
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So it’s not The Most Incredible Thing after all
British pop duo the Pet Shop Boys have unveiled their first ballet score, a dance work based on the Hans Christian Andersen story The Most Incredible Thing. It is a fairytale about a ruler who offers his daughter and half his kingdom in a contest.Venezuelan dancer Javier De Frutos has choreographed the piece, and ex-Royal Ballet…
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Ivan ‘did-he-go-or-was-he-pushed?’ Putrov nears the opening of his Pet Shop Boys ballet
After 12 years at Covent Garden, eight of them as a principal dancer, Putrov quit the Royal Ballet last year in a move that prompted a flood of gossip and rumour. Falling out with his ballerina partners? Flareups in the rehearsal studio? Failing to keep his eye on the ball? says Debra Craine in The Times…
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