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Several dancers of the Lviv Opera Ballet fail to return to Ukraine. Related.
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Ballet Edmonton appoints a new artistic director.
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A review of New York City Ballet by Leigh Witchel for dancelog.nyc.
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Louisville Ballet closes its season with "Romeo and Juliet." TV news clip.
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A study of "Odesa" and "Solitude" by Gay Morris for danceviewtimes.
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Q&A with Robert Carter of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.
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A review of San Francisco Ballet by Charles Lewis III for 48hills.
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A TV interview with Natalia Ashikhmina about her retirement from the Louisville Ballet.
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A review of Houston Ballet by Carla Escoda for Bachtrack.
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The Joffrey Ballet performs in Berkeley this month.
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The National Ballet of Japan brings back Peter Darrell's Tales of Hoffmann.
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A television news feature on Lauren Anderson teaching at Houston Ballet.
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An obituary for Anthony Russell-Roberts, who died at the age of 79 last January, in The Sunday Times. Obituaries and appreciations published previously. Alastair Macaulay Judith Mackrell for the Royal Opera House.
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Yum. Looking forward to streaming this one!
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Von Aroldingen-( not Kent)-/Kirkland/and the Russian tour.
dirac replied to cubanmiamiboy's topic in Writings on Ballet
Welcome. However, your original point - that recollections may vary, to borrow a useful line from Buckingham Palace - is worth holding in mind when reading memoirs and also when reading (and, one hopes, writing) biographies. It can be tough, because sometimes the best raconteurs are the least reliable. This has a special application when it comes to ballet, because writers or ballet masters/mistresses who are trying to reconstruct how a ballet was first made and how it's changed over time frequently have to contend with differing recollections. I found a good discussion on an old BA thread: Oral history -
A review of New York City Ballet by Leigh Witchel for dancelog.nyc.
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A review of "Ballet Nights" at Lanterns Studio Theatre by Graham Watts for Bachtrack.
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A review of Queensland Ballet by Ruth Ridgway for Bachtrack.
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Ballet Manila presents "Le Corsaire."
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Rare footage of a young Louis Johnson.
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The School of American Ballet holds its 90th anniversary ball.
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The Philadelphia Ballet presents "Giselle."
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An interview with David McAllister.
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Darcey Bussell coaches the dancers of the Birmingham Royal Ballet in "The Sleeping Beauty."
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A review of the Royal Ballet in "Manon" by Sarah Crompton in The Observer.