Jump to content
This Site Uses Cookies. If You Want to Disable Cookies, Please See Your Browser Documentation. ×

ECat

Senior Member
  • Posts

    273
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Registration Profile Information

  • Connection to/interest in ballet** (Please describe. Examples: fan, teacher, dancer, writer, avid balletgoer)
    Avid fan, ex-dancer, ballet nerd
  • City**
    Los Angeles
  • State (US only)**, Country (Outside US only)**
    CA

Recent Profile Visitors

1,594 profile views
  1. WOW! This is fantastic news! Very well deserved. Shakirova is quite versatile and has proven herself to be a well-rounded and technical artist.
  2. Indeed! Also several recent Vaganova grads have gone to Bolshoi and are already getting important debuts. For example, Maria Koshkaryova just joined Bolshoi as a soloist and debuted Gamzatti.
  3. Agreed Danielle! They have a wealth of talent at the second soloist level, many of whom are ripe for promotion. Not sure why they hired from outside.
  4. Hello fellow Ballet Lovers! The Mariinsky ballet website has a new dancer listed as a first soloist. https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/company/ballet/soloists/ Elena Svinko has joined and previously danced with the Mikhailovsky Ballet as a soloist and the Krasnoyarsk Ballet. https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/company/ballet/soloists/first_soloists/dancers1/svinko_elena1/ After watching a few Youtube videos of Elena, I see that she is a very talented dancer who has won numerous awards. While I do not want to detract from her excellent abilities, I wonder why management chose to hire her rather than promote from within. I have no doubt she will make an excellent addition, but there are several second soloists deserving of a promotion. Perhaps more promotions will be made soon.
  5. Agreed! In fact Susan Jaffe was promoted after only a year or two in the company.
  6. @Danielle Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful interview!
  7. Thank you for the heads up that the casting has been posted. Here is a link: https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/ballet/2022-2023/new-york-city-ballet/ I'll be flying to Maryland to visit my mother and we are going to the June 11 matinee performance. I am thrilled that Megan Fairchild is dancing Donizetti Variations with Joseph Gordon.
  8. Whoops! For some reason I was thinking of Alexei Timofeyev when Sergeyev was mentioned as being promoted. But I do still believe that Stepin deserves principal status and Timofeyev deserves First Soloist status.
  9. Congratulations to all of the newly promoted dancers! I'm especially pleased for Alexander Sergeev who has long been deserbving of this promotion. I would love to see Philipp Stepin promoted to principal.
  10. Eleanora is now listed as a principal ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet! I wish her a huge congratulations! https://2011.bolshoi.ru/en/persons/ballet/soloist/
  11. This is wonderful news! Congratulations to them both!
  12. On the Bolshoi Ballet website, Ksenia is no longer listed and I'm wondering if anyone knows more about this. I've always been a fan of hers and enjoyed hearing about how her career has progressed. Although I wish she would get cast more regularly in leading roles. Klim Efimov, who I believe is her husband, is still listed as a soloist.
  13. I am wishing a big congratulations to all of these beautiful dancers!
  14. Congratulations to Jose Martinez! My guess is that he will be a very fine director.
  15. @Buddy I agree with everything you posted. It is very exciting to see the up and coming dancers in both the Mariinsky and Bolshoi. They are all so different from one another and brins such diverse talents.
×
×
  • Create New...