Dancing brothers Julian and Nicholas MacKay, who many will know through this blog (which starting following them and their two sisters in 2013), are trapped in Russia after the government set further restrictions on movement in the wake of the coronavirus emergency, meaning that all international flights are now suspended.
Julian, 22, is a First Soloist at the Mikhailovsky Theatre and Nicholas, 19…
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? I started as young girl… for as long as I can remember. Why did you start singing? I started by accident. I was supposed to go to my saxophone class, but I was given the wrong day and time of the lesson, and therefore I found myself […]
Ardani 25 Dance Gala is a must for ballet fans on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th July at the London Coliseum. Natalia Osipova, Edward Watson, Ivan Vasiliev, Marcelo Gomes, Denis Matvienko, Joaquín De Luz and Friedemann Vogel will be sharing the bill in three contemporary pieces. The event marks Ardani Artists’ 25th anniversary. The Company was founded in 1990 by Sergei […]
What a disappointment was La Scala’s new Nutcracker. A shimmering front-cloth announced “Lo schiaccianoci” as though written in the stars, Tchaikovsky’s bewitching overture started and there was that Christmassy buzz of excitement… a feeling that only lasted five minutes or so. With the odd decision to have a narrative voice-over clash against the music – and […]
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 […]
The applause that greeted Natalia Osipova’s return to the Bolshoi stage was enthusiastic. Laura Cappelle wrote in her Financial Times review: The tour marks the Russian superstar’s first performances on the Bolshoi stage since her departure from the company three years ago, and if the breathless reception she got is any indication, she has been […]
Forget the Royal Ballet School or the The School of American Ballet, Nikolai Tsiskaridze says there are only three real ballet schools in the world: the Paris Opera Ballet School, the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and the Vaganova Ballet Academy, which he is currently running. I always said there are only three schools in the world: if you […]
Bailiffs in St Petersburg have banned the director of the Mikhailovsky Theatre, Vladimir Kekhman, from leaving Russia, said Lenta. Businessman Kekhman has debts exceeding 285 million rubles (7 million euros). The current restriction lasts until 12 August. The Kekhman Group JFC imports fruits, but according to various estimates, the company’s debts range from 15.8 to 38.5 […]
Tonight the Mikhailovsky Theatre opens its 2012-2013 season with Polina Semionova dancing the eponymous heroine in Giselle. Semionova left to join the Berlin Staatsoper immediately after graduating from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Coincidentally, earlier this week Daniel Barenboim, the Music Director of the Berlin Staatsoper, gave a press conference at the Mikhailovsky where he announced that on 5–6 September 2013, he will perform there […]
The ballet world was surprised when Nacho Duato (ex-director of Spain’s Compañía Nacional de Danza) was headhunted by St Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Theatre, maybe enticed by the fat wallet of general director Vladimir Kekhman. He has now been at the company’s helm for a year. When Mariinsky star Leonid Sarafanov jumped on board a couple of months later fans were […]
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