2019/20 Season: Karen Kain’s 50th AnniversaryNew Swan Lake by Karen KainThree World Premieres and Three Company PremieresTour to Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.New Choreographic AssociateKaren Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, has announced that she will direct and stage a new Swan Lake for the 2019/20 season in celebration of her 50th … [Read more...] about Karen Kain’s 50th Anniversary at National Ballet of Canada
Jiří Kylián
The National Ballet of Canada’s first performance in Russia to be livestreamed
The National Ballet of Canada's first performance in Moscow will be livestreamed across Russia on Yandex.The free livestream will take place on 15 October 2018 from The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre in Moscow where the National Ballet will perform a mixed programme as part of Diana Vishneva’s Context festival.The free livestream is part … [Read more...] about The National Ballet of Canada’s first performance in Russia to be livestreamed
La Scala Ballet Season 2018-2019 announced
The new ballet season at La Scala sees seven programmes, including three pieces being presented at the theatre for the first time, including a newly commissioned work.George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker will open the season on 16 December and it will be the first time that his version has been presented in Italy. A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Jewels are already in the … [Read more...] about La Scala Ballet Season 2018-2019 announced
Photo Album: First look at tonight’s triple bill at La Scala with Roberto Bolle in Bolero and Aszure Barton’s Mahler 10
Two weeks ago, we published rehearsal photos of La Scala's new triple-bill which opens tonight.Now here are the first photos of Roberto Bolle on Béjart's red table in Bolero, the return of Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort, and the word premiere of Aszure Barton's Mahler 10.Mahler 10Petite MortBolero … [Read more...] about Photo Album: First look at tonight’s triple bill at La Scala with Roberto Bolle in Bolero and Aszure Barton’s Mahler 10
Béjart’s Boléro returns to La Scala with Roberto Bolle and others debuting on the red table
Maurice Béjart’s Boléro returns to La Scala in March, with Roberto Bolle dancing the La Mélodie for the first time. The 15-minute work was last seen in the theatre in 2003 when Sylvie Guillem danced the central role.Béjart Ballet Lausanne’s ‘experts’ Elisabet Ros and Julien Favreau will be featured too, as well as three young dancers from La Scala’s company: Martina Arduino, … [Read more...] about Béjart’s Boléro returns to La Scala with Roberto Bolle and others debuting on the red table
Nicolas Le Riche announces the Royal Swedish Opera Ballet Season 2018/19
Paving the way for pioneering alliances and unparalleled masterpiecesNicolas Le Riche, the newly appointed Director of the Swedish Royal Ballet, today announced the 2018/19 season featuring classics and new works by international talents and dance icons such as Jiří Kylián, Serge Lifar and Angelin Preljocaj. The season offers more than 60 performances, 4 of which with the … [Read more...] about Nicolas Le Riche announces the Royal Swedish Opera Ballet Season 2018/19
Zenaida Yanowsky’s final curtain call
After 23 years with The Royal Ballet, last night Zenaida Yanowsky gave her final curtain call on the Covent Garden stage.Her final performance at the Royal Opera House was in Marguerite and Armand where she danced alongside Roberto Bolle. Her last performance with the Company, however, will be in Australia in July, performing Paulina in The Winter’s Tale at the Queensland … [Read more...] about Zenaida Yanowsky’s final curtain call
La Scala Ballet Season 2017-2018 with new Le Corsaire, Bolle’s debut in Bolero, tribute to Nureyev, and the Bolshoi
Since suddenly taking over at the helm of La Scala’s Ballet Company, and now having been confirmed as its director for the next three years, Frédéric Olivieri has presented his first ballet season since the five seasons he created when he previously held this position at the theatre, from 2002 until 2007.The season sees additions which are ideal for a repertory company like … [Read more...] about La Scala Ballet Season 2017-2018 with new Le Corsaire, Bolle’s debut in Bolero, tribute to Nureyev, and the Bolshoi
Abdiel Cedric Jacobsen answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… dancers’ edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? I began dancing when I was in the womb, taught informally by my mother through the blood memory of her ancestors. My mom is Ivorian - from Côte d'Ivoire - and when we were little kids she would push aside the coffee table in the living room to teach my two older sisters and I West African dances from the Ivory Coast.We started a dance … [Read more...] about Abdiel Cedric Jacobsen answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… dancers’ edition
Choreographer Petr Zuska and the Czech National Ballet
The Czech National Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world. It was founded in 1883 to provide dances for the opera and it also put on the classics of the time introducing creations for the Ballets Russes as it entered the 1920s. However, from the ‘30s on it slowly started leaning towards a more modern repertoire often created by Czech composers and … [Read more...] about Choreographer Petr Zuska and the Czech National Ballet