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    2015 Golden Mask Nominations

    in Other Performing & Fine Arts: Performances, Exhibits, Films, and Events

    Posted

    The 2015 Golden Mask nominations for the 2013-2014 season were announced in Moscow. The Golden Mask honors the best in Russian theatre, from live drama to puppetry.

    Notably, in recent years the ballet category was combined with modern dance nominations. A new category, "contemporary dance" has been introduced for the first time. Once again, in opera and ballet production categories, Moscow companies led by the Bolshoi and Stanislavsky Theatres, in addition to provincial theatres, dominated the nominations.

    http://eng.goldenmask.ru/gm.php?id=123

    "World Ballet Day:" Live internet-broadcast, October 1, 2014

    in Heads up!

    Posted

    Mark your calendars and check your timezones. On October 1, (or September 30 depending

    where you are smile.png ), Youtube will stream a 9 hour behind the scenes marathon featuring, Australian Ballet,

    the Bolshoi, the Royal Ballet, National Ballet of Canada and San Francisco Ballet. The broadcast will

    start in Melbourne, then it will relay in succession to Moscow, London, Toronto and end in San Francisco.

    The global webcast will feature classes, rehearsals, and the dancers' working day in each company.

    At the Bolshoi, rehearsals of Grigorvich's "Legend of Love," and Maillot's "The Taming of the Shrew"

    will be shown.

    http://www.sfballet.org/worldballetday?gclid=CL6BzLjA68ACFYhefgodKYEAYQ

    Matthew Bourne Sleeping Beauty -- Great Performances

    in Ballet Videos, Films, Broadcast Performances, Photos, and Interviews

    Posted

    I saw it last Friday evening on PBS; and watched it again. I agree that this is something that probably translates better IRL theatre, and not on screen. I think the best work he's ever done is his version of Prokofiev's "Cinderella" set during WW2 during the blitz in London. I can understand the critical pushback. Although I'm a traditionalist, I do respect his work. I think that his "Sleeping Beauty" is a hybrid of "True Blood," "Downton Abbey," and "Game of Thrones," set to a soundtrack that Balanchine declared was, "...the greatest score ever written for ballet." That said, Bourne's vision is equally valid as any other choreographer's, and it's a good thing to look at new concepts of old works. Nacho Duato's version for the Mikhailovsky Ballet isn't traditional either, even though the heroine and the corps de ballet remained en pointe. I remember several years ago, Clement Crisp asked the question ,"... what will (Bourne) do when he runs out of the classics and their scores?" Has Bourne attempted to answer that question? Can, (will) Bourne create his own original work outside the frame of established masterpieces?

    2014 Golden Mask Winners

    in Ballet Presentations, Lectures/Symposia, Exhibits & Awards

    Posted

    The 2014 Golden Mask winners were announced Friday 4/18/14: http://eng.goldenmask.ru/gm.php?id=121

    The Bolshoi Theatre, Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre, and the Mikhailovsky Theatre in Petersburg

    dominated in the ballet and opera categories.

    • BALLET/ CONTEMPORARY DANCE ballet/best production
    • SALIERI VARIATIONS, Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yekaterinburg

      contemporary dance/best production
    • THE RITE OF SPRING, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

    • best conductor
    • Pavel KLINICHEV - CANTUS ARCTICUS, Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yekaterinburg

      best balletmaster/best choreographer
    • Vyacheslav SAMODUROV - SALIERI VARIATIONS, Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yekaterinburg

      best actress
    • Elena VOROBYOVA - SALIERI VARIATIONS, Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yekaterinburg

      best actor
    • Vladimir VARNAVA - PASSENGER, Vladimir Varnava and Maxim Didenko Joint Project, St. Petersburg
    • DRAMA
      best large scale production
    • INTRIGUE AND LOVE, Maly Drama Theatre - Theatre of Europe, St. Petersburg

      best small scale production
    • VASSA, Vedogon-Theatre, Zelinograd

      best director
    • Rimas TUMINAS - EUGENE ONEGIN, Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow

      best actress
    • Alexandra URSULYAK (Shen The, Shui Ta) – THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAM, Pushkin Theatre, Moscow

      best actor
    • Alexei VERTKOV (Venichka) – MOSCOW-PETUSHKI, Studio of Theatre Arts, Moscow

      best supporting actor/actress
    • Era ZIGANSHINA (Grandmother) – ZERO LITURGY, Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

      best designer
    • Alexander BOROVSKIY - INTRIGUE AND LOVE, Maly Drama Theatre - Theatre of Europe, St. Petersburg

      best costume designer
    • Maria DANILOVA - EUGENE ONEGIN, Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow

      best light designer
    • Denis SOLNTSEV - ONEGIN, Krasny Fakel, Novosibirsk

      PUPPETRY
      best production
    • KILL KAROL, Puppet House, Penza

      best director
    • Boris KONSTANTINOV - CARMEN, Puppet Theatre Teremok, Vologda

      best designer
    • Viktor NIKONENKO - KILL KAROL, Puppet House, Penza

      best actor
    • Andrei NECHAEV, Dmitriy CHERNOV, Alexei SOKOLOV, Khalisya BOGDANOVA (Old señora) - THE OLD SEIGNEUR AND…, Obraztsov Theatre, Moscow

      Drama and Puppet Theatre Jury`s Special Award
    • ONEGIN, Krasny Fakel, Novosibirsk
    • Yury Butusov, productions of THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAM, Pushkin Theatre, Moscow and MACBETH. CINEMA, Lensoviet Theatre, St. Petersburg


      OPERA best production
    • EUGENE ONEGIN, Mikhailovsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

      best conductor
    • Jan LATHAM-KOENIG - TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, Novaya Opera, Moscow

      best director
    • Andriy ZHOLDAK - EUGENE ONEGIN, Mikhailovsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

      best actress
    • Venera GIMADIEVA (Amina) – LA SONNAMBULA, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

      best actor
    • Maxim MIRONOV (Lindoro) – L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre, Moscow

    • OPERETTA/MUSICAL best production
    • THE LITTLE MERMAID, Stage Entertainment, Moscow

      best conductor
    • Ainars RUBIKIS - MASS, Opera and Ballet Theatre, Novosibirsk

      best director not awarded

      best actress
    • Manana GOGITIDZE (Ursula) – THE LITTLE MERMAID, Stage Entertainment, Moscow

      best actor
    • Dmitry SUSLOV (Celebrant/Prayer) – MASS, Opera and Ballet Theatre, Novosibirsk


      BEST COMPOSER
    • Vladimir KOBEKIN - KHOLSTOMER, Chamber Musical Theatre, Moscow

      MUSICAL THEATRE/BEST DESIGNER
    • Alexander SHISHKIN - THE RITE OF SPRING, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow MUSICAL THEATRE/BEST COSTUME DESIGNER
    • Antony McDONALD - L’ENFANT ET LES SORTILÈGES, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

      MUSICAL THEATRE/BEST LIGHT DESIGNER
    • AJ WEISSBARD - EUGENE ONEGIN, Mikhailovsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

      Musical Theatre Jury`s Special Award
    • Maxim Yemelyanychev (hammer clavier) LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, Opera and Ballet Theatre, Perm;
    • Pokiza Kurbonasenova, Adzham Chakoboev, Abdulmamad Bekmamadov, authors and performers, Akyn-opera, Teatr.doc, Moscow
    • Sergei Nevsky (composer), Klaus Luhnstedt (librettist) and creative team of FRANCIS, Operagroup, Moscow


      INNOVATION
    • DISTANT VICINITY, Playwright and Directors Centre, Moscow

      CRITICS AWARD
    • AN IDEAL HUSBAND, Moscow Art Theatre

      CONTRIBUTION TO THEATRE ART – Oleg Basilashvili
      CONTRIBUTION TO THEATRE ART – Galina Volchek
      CONTRIBUTION TO THEATRE ART – Mark Zakharov
      CONTRIBUTION TO THEATRE ART – Eri Klas
      CONTRIBUTION TO THEATRE ART – Anna Kuzmina
      CONTRIBUTION TO THEATRE ART – Georgy Obukhov
      CONTRIBUTION TO THEATRE ART – Nina Urgant
      CONTRIBUTION TO THEATRE ART – Klarina Shadko

      SUPPORT OF RUSSIAN THEATRE ART – Academservice
      SUPPORT OF RUSSIAN THEATRE ART – Sergei Chebotaryov, Deputy Head of Administration, Tambov region

      BEST FOREIGN PRODUCTION PRESENTED IN RUSSIA IN 2013 – The Man Outside, Thalia Theatre, Hamburg, Germany

    2014 Benois de la Danse Nominations

    in Ballet Presentations, Lectures/Symposia, Exhibits & Awards

    Posted

    The 2014 Benois nominations have been announced: http://benois.theatre.ru/english/massmedia/news/

    The Jury:

    Yuri Grigorovich – President;
    Beverly d’Anne – The Head of the Dance Department of the State of New York’s Art Council (1991-2011);
    Carla Fracci – Star of the Italian Ballet;
    Gabriela Komleva – Ballet Mistress of the Mariinsky Theatre, professor of the St. Petersburg’s Conservatory;
    Ana Laguna – International Star, coach, teacher;
    Agnes Letestu – Etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet, coach, costume designer;
    Madeleine Onne – Artistic Director of the Hong Kong Ballet.

    The Nominees

    CHOREOGRAPHERS:
    PATRICK DE BANA (Vienna State Ballet),
    ALEXEY RATMANSKY (American Ballet Theatre),
    MAURICIO WAINROT (Ballet Contemporaneo del Teatro San-Martin, Buenos Aires);

    BALLERINAS:
    ASHLEY BOUDER (New York City Ballet),
    LAURA HECQUET (National Paris Opera),
    MARIKO KIDA (Royal Swedish Ballet),
    NADIA MUSIKA (Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires), POLINA SEMIONOVA (American Ballet Theatre),
    VICTORIA TERESHKINA (Mariinsky Theatre),
    LIU YU YAO (The Hong Kong Ballet);

    DANCERS: TIMUR ASKEROV (Mariinsky Theatre),
    AUDRIC BEZARD (National Paris Opera),
    HERMAN CORNEJO (American Ballet Theatre),
    CLAUDIO COVIELLO (La Scala),
    NIKLAS EK (Royal Swedish Ballet),
    SHEN JIE (The Hong Kong Ballet),
    JUAN PABLO LEDO (Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires).

    Congratulations to all the nominees!

    flowers

    in Everything Else Ballet

    Posted

    I sort of like the Russian way where the flowers actually come from the fans. Of course, there are pros and cons to both ways of doing it.

    I know that in some companies, dancers have sent each other flowers, for various accomplishments. I thought that was particularly sweet.

    (I originally thought you were just referring to tossing flowers over the pit at the end of the performance, which has the added possibility of a tulip on the head...)

    I think at the Mariinsky you are supposed to give the flowers to an usher or the backstage area (drop off) and tell them (or have a card) who is to receive it.

    I don't think it is allowed to bring the flowers into the auditorium and toss them at the Mariinsky. Maybe it was allowed at one time, but I don't think it usually happens now, but I could be wrong. Rules are meant to be broken! LOL ..."

    You're right; the current procedure is to give flowers with cards attached to a backstage usher and he/she will present it to the performer. In Soviet times, you could do this and you could toss them onto the stage, (sometimes during a performance), and at curtain calls. I remember one "Giselle" from that era with Galina Mezentseva. After her Act 1 solo, someone tossed a large bouquet (as in armful) of daisies at her feet.

    Bolshoi 2014-15 cinema season

    in Ballet Videos, Films, Broadcast Performances, Photos, and Interviews

    Posted

    This is like a serious question. Are the Grigorovuch productions really that popular in Moscow? I can understand Spartacus in all it's Soviet superman glory but do balletomanes really eat up his Swan Lake (with the weird Evil Genius and odd musical arrangements) or Giselle (which makes nonsense of much of the first act's dramaturgy)?

    Grigorovich is considered to be the 'Grand Master Choreographer of Soviet Ballet' (my words); so yes, he is still very popular. He was Bolshoi Artistic Director and Choreographer-in-Chief from 1964 - 1995. The Moscow International Ballet competition was established by him in 1969, and that's just one of the competitions where he's a jurist. He was and is still revered and influential, and I daresay will be long after he's gone.

    The Mariinsky reveres the memory of Konstantin Sergeyev and they haven't altered, or removed any of his Petipa productions. The Bolshoi will (probably) do the same with Grigorovich's Petipa redactions and repertory. For example, Filin wanted to mount the 1899 reconstruction of the Bolshoi premiere of "Sleeping Beauty" in 2011 to celebrate the reopening of the Theatre. The management reproduced Grigorovich's 1973 production with "new" designs by the same team that brought us La Scala's and POB's current designs.

    Grigororvich's work received the highest State honors. For me, he always seemed more of a stage producer (i.e.Broadway), than a choreographer of steps. I think he was the most successful at combining ideology with acrobatics and bombastic effects, more than his Soviet contemporaries. IMO all of these elements came together in "Spartacus" and to a lesser extent, "Ivan the Terrible."

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