San Francisco Ballet – The Complete 2026-2027 Season
Ballet’s past, present, and future are explored in the 2026-2027 season, San Francisco Ballet announced this week.
Sergei Diaghilev
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Review: Kontakthof – Echoes of ’78, Pina Bausch through the eyes of Meryl Tankard
Lily Hyde sees a reworked version of Pina Bausch’s Kontakthof with original cast members from 1978 – mired in the old, the show presents something remarkably new.
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Review: Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes – distinct, visually arresting and magical
Matthew Paluch sees Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures The Red Shoes – Lez Brotherston’s sets and costumes are a wonder, the dancers are gifted, it won’t disappoint.
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As queer male representation in ballet soars, queer female representation stays firmly on the ground
As the dance work based on Isherwood’s gay novel A Single Man comes to London’s Royal Opera House, Lily Hyde laments the lack of female queerness in ballet.
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Review: Diaghilev and the Birth of Modern Ballet with Birmingham Royal Ballet 2
Jonathan Gray sees BRT2 in Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la rose, and extracts from Scheherazade, The Firebird and Les Biches – a programme that failed to come to life.
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Antipasto to the annual Les Étoiles gala in Rome with Russian and Italian ballet stars
As an antipasto to the annual Les Étoiles gala in Rome — this year a sold out two days, next year there will be three — in the luxurious setting of the Hotel de Russie near the Spanish Steps, there was an intimate reception hosted by the hotel, with a Sergei Diaghilev theme. The event…
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Picasso in Rome, with Diaghilev, Cocteau and Massine: The Ballets Russes and Parade
One hundred years ago, Pablo Picasso lived Rome for two months. It was his first trip to Italy. The Ballets Russes was in town and Picasso was eager to begin work on his designs for Parade, the ballet which would open on 18 May 1917 in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet. Two years previously,…
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Carla Fracci with Schaufuss, Vasiliev, Cragun, Jude and others on YouTube
In 1987 a two-part television programme called The Ballerinas featured Carla Fracci, with some of the top male dancers of the period, in a series of reconstructions putting various ballets and their interpretors in an historical context. Fracci was an amazingly youthful 51 when she danced these extracts. Dance Magazine critic John Gruen wrote:…
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Alex Ross at the grave of Stravinsky
Yesterday I took a vaporetto out to San Michele, the cemetery island of Venice. It was seven-thirty on a Sunday morning, and my only fellow passengers were several elderly people whom I took to be widows and widowers, bearing flowers for their loved ones. I was preparing to pay my respects to Igor Stravinsky, who…
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Last week to catch the V&A’s glorious Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes exhibition
This is the last chance to catch the stunning collection of Ballet Russes material brought together by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Diaghilev’s dramatic performances transformed dance, reawakening interest in ballet across Europe and America. Celebrating the company’s key period of activity, this major exhibition reveals Diaghilev’s enduring influence on 20th-century art, design…
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At the National Portrait Gallery, Ballet In Focus – a free exhibition
The richness and variety of dance on the British stage in the early decades of the twentieth century is often forgotten: overshadowed by Sergei Diaghilev‘s Ballets Russes, which made its first appearance in London in the summer of 1911. However, spectacular ballets and dance diverstissements, featuring classical and stage dancing, attracted large and enthusiastic audiences…
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