Review: Rudolf Nureyev’s The Nutcracker at La Scala – outstanding five-star dancing
Graham Spicer sees Rudolf Nureyev’s The Nutcracker at La Scala – some odd dramatic choices but the company has never looked so good.
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Evan McKie answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? In the womb. Why did you start dancing? I will probably never know the answer to that. I just know why I keep doing it. Which dancer inspired you most as a child? Rudolph, Pina, Kazuo Ohno, Gregory Hines, Erik Bruhn , Karen Kain, Evelyn Hart, Robert Tewsley, Lynn…
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Adam Cooper talks to the Sunday Times about ballet, Michael Jackson, Vaughan Williams and the Kirov
In today’s Sunday Times, Adam Cooper – ex-Royal Ballet dancer, and currently tip-tapping in the West End – talked about the places where he and his elder brother, Simon, grew up. Until their teens they lived in a ‘poky’ flat in Tooting. The flat was much too small for two energetic boys with a musician father who had…
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Claire Motte, étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet, at the circus
Claire Motte, étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet, died when she was just 48. She was a striking beauty and possessed a strong personality, such that Roland Petit created Esmeralda for her in his ballet Notre Dame de Paris. Motte came through the school at the Paris Opera with teachers Carlotta Zambelli and Serge Lifar. Her strong technique permitted…
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Critics Round-up: Royal Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty
In 2006 Monica Mason decided to go back to the beginning with the Royal Ballet‘s signature ballet, The Sleeping Beauty: consign the 2003 Makarova disaster (“dramatically shapeless and emotionally flat” said The Times) to the dustbins, and restore Oliver Messel’s 1946 production. That was the year that the Vic-Wells Ballet moved to the Royal Opera House. There has…
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Valery Gergiev is Edinburgh Festival’s honorary president
Valery Gergiev is the new honorary president of the Edinburgh International Festival. Gergiev brought the Kirov Opera to the festival in 1991, 1995 and 1997. Renamed as the Mariinsky Opera, Gergiev’s company returned in 2008 and he has also conducted at the festival. I can easily celebrate my 20 years with the Edinburgh International Festival, it…
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Diana Vishneva talks about dancing and the Mariinsky on the eve of the company’s London season
The Mariinsky are the Royal Opera House, and one of the jewels in their crown, Diana Vishneva, is with them. The Times’ Debra Craine says admiringly: Acclaimed in Berlin, adored in New York (where she dances with American Ballet Theatre), admired in Japan, and now about to return to London with her home company, the Mariinsky,…
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The Corella Ballet in the US: ‘We’re creating history and that’s a wonderful thing.’
The Corella Ballet Castilla y León is embarking on its first American tour. Tonight it débuts in Seattle and Angel Corella talked to a local journalist. On his reason for creating the company in 2007: Spain has always created ballet dancers but they haven’t had Spanish companies to perform with. I want Spanish dancers to have a…
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