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The National Ballet of Ukraine is currently offering a full recording of their Snow Queen which was filmed during their Japan tour last winter.
Originally , the music was by Tchaikovsky but as commonly known they don't perform ballets by Tchaikovsky so they changed the music, which are a mixed bag of various composers such as Strauss, Mascagni, Greig, Massnet, Berlioz, Ponchielli
But the performance is quite enjoyable. Choreographed by Aniko Rekhviashvili, Gerda : Ilona Kravchenko, Kai: Mykita Skharkov, The Snow Queen; Anastasia Shevchenko.
They are also offering some other full length performances such as Don Quixote.
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Korean/Canadian dancer Dong Hyun Seo, who danced at the National Ballet of Canada 2000-2007 and also Houston Ballet 2007-2009, Universal Ballet 2009-2011 has passed away, the National Ballet of Canada’s instagram and Facebook has announced.
All of us at The National Ballet of Canada are deeply saddened to hear the heartbreaking news that former dancer Dong Hyun Seo has passed away. Dong danced with the company from 2000 – 2007 and formed many enduring friendships here. We offer our sincere condolences to his family and friends for this devastating loss.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2fRhRBREkp/?igsh=MWc3emRveWc0N2M2Yg==
Dong Hyun Seo has been living in Japan since 2012 and had his ballet school in Akita.
Last summer, in collaboration with his former schoolmate Nehemiah Kish, he held gala concerts in Sapporo and Akita called Royal Stars Gala, with stars such as Francesca Hayward, Yasmine Naghdi, Sarah Lamb, William Bracewell, Akane Takada and Ryoichi Hirano.
Nehemiah Kish has also posted his condolences. It is heartbreaking as Hyun Seo is still young and leaves a 2 year old daughter behind.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2dCgIlLhY7/?igsh=MWV6eTlzcTc3enF6Yg==
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This will be livestreamed from December 19th.
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Gergiev Will Not, Apparently, Take on Leadership of Bolshoi in Addition to Mariinsky.
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Bashkir Opera's La Bayadere is currently available here.
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The girl in the halter neck olive or dark blue leotard wearing ballet slippers while giving fouettés (at the right of the screen, 1:20:46) is Kanon Kimura.
https://www.abt.org/people/kanon-kimura/?type=performer
Kotomi Yamada (in a pale green leotard, left side of the screen) does the fouettés later and she is also a very good turner and got applauded at the very end.
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As I have noted in the Vienna State Ballet topic, Alessandra Ferri will be taking over the role of Artistic Director there so if ABT will be doing Woolf Works at the MET in 2024, this might be one of the last chances to see her perform live. (I am not sure whether she will be performing in it or not)
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New release in German
On Instagram (in English)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyxp4ejo8yi/?img_index=1
Alessandra Ferri to lead the Vienna State Ballet from September 2025!
Today announced by director of @wienerstaatsoper Bogdan Roščić and Lotte de Beer, director of @volksoper , the internationally acclaimed artist and prima ballerina assoluta will succeed Martin Schläpfer from 1st September 2025. With Alessandra Ferri, one of the most influential personalities of the international ballet world of our time will take over the artistic direction of the company and will also serve as artistic director of the Ballet Academy.
Born in Milan in 1963, Alessandra Ferri looks back on an unique career: As a dancer, she has worked with the world‘s most important choreographers who have also created numerous works especially for her.
She was Principal Dancer at the Royal Ballet and at the American Ballet Theatre, is prima ballerina assoluta of La Scala in Milan and has made guest appearances at all the major houses and companies worldwide. From 2008 to 2014, she also successfully directed the dance programming of the renowned Spoleto Festival, acted as a producer of international touring productions and has recently devoted herself to teaching and staging at the Royal Ballet, English National Ballet or American Ballet Theatre, among others. -
A source study of two ballets and a divertissement by Marius Petipa
Douglas Frederick Fullingtonis available online, and is a valuable writing of 464 pages. (thanks to a post on the ballet.co forum by Sebastian)
His book Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg: Giselle | Paquita | Le Corsaire | La Bayadère | Raymonda
will be published and will be available for purchase in November.
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Stuttgart Ballet's Taming of the Shrew (which made it way to DVD) was broadcasted in Japan so I have seen it, and it was a fine performance.
However, I wished that this ballet should have been recorded 10 years ago when Jason Reilly was at his best and was phenomenal in this ballet.
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Also a fabulous performance of Diana and Acteon by Takumi Miyake, new apprentice at ABT. He was awarded the Ninette de Valois Prize at Royal Ballet School for the most outstanding male graduate of the year but was unable to be auditioned for Royal Ballet because he was injured then.
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Evgenie Neff, former principal at Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet and former ballet master at Universal Ballet in Korea has passed away. He was 69.
Obituary on Mariinsky official site.
https://www.mariinsky.ru/news1/2023/7_2023/11_3/
and Universal Ballet's instagram
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cul0NSPvTwp/
Many might remember him as Conrad on the filmed performance of Mariinsky's Le Corsaire opposite Asylmuratova and Ruzimatov A beautiful elegant dancer, and too young to be gone.
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I am not sure how long this will be available, but this recording is lovely.
Giselle - Valeria Isaeva
Albert - Rustam Iskhakov
Myrta - Angelina Nigmatulina, debut
Hans - Artyom Dobrokhvalov
Batilde - Irina Chiong
Wilfrid - Danila Alekseev
Berta - Natalya Kruger
Graf - Jan Valeev
Orchestra of the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theater.
Conductor - Marat Akhmet-Zaripov.
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Aya Okumura has already joined Czech National Ballet as a soloist but already promoted First Soloist (which is the highest rank there)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqe7zxooxxG/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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And here is Froustey’s post. She says she will leave SFB and return to France.(I think she was from Bordeaux)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr1X1N2vd-2/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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Here is the official announcement, Mathilde Froustey joins Bordeaux Opera Ballet as Etoile.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr01wtIIwwn/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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It seems Mathilde Froustey is joining Bordeaux Opera Ballet, according to Danses Avec La Plume. (journalist Amelie Bertrand) She will be dancing Kitri on June 30th there.
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Bolshoi Ballet’s tribute to Pierre Lacotte.
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French choreographer Pierre Lacotte, known for his reconstructions of 19th century ballets for the world's greatest companies, died Monday at the age of 91, his wife, prima ballerina Ghislaine Thesmar, told AFP.
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National Ballet of Ukraine’s full length Don Quixote is currently streamed for free.
This was recorded during their Japan tour in December 2022. Leads are Olga Golytsia and Mykita Skharkov
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At least Somova has not been on the Mariinsky Stage for a long time and has been guesting at State Ballet of Georgia joining in Jivoy’s creation Carmina Burana and even joining their tour overseas to Italy in December.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkYd-6WDxVL/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
You can see on her instagram that she has a Georgian name. (Her husband is from Georgia)also she was supposed to appear in a benefit gala in Zurich to support Ukrainian people with the dancers that left Russia.
https://www.ballettohnegrenzen.ch/#Cast-2 -
Israel Galvin is absolutely fantastic and is a phenomenal artist, a dancer like no other. I recommend seeing his performance too.
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On 12/31/2022 at 10:05 AM, volcanohunter said:
Also, I thought Mai Kageyama was delightful in the peasant pas de deux.
I have seen Mai Kageyama as Giselle in Japan a few years ago and she was delicate and fabulous. She also danced Giselle this time and I think you can see a few snippets of her Giselle during the intermission of the performance. (approximately from 56 minutes in the stream)
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Ballet Class on Mariinsky 2's stage will be streamed on the 23rd.
Dieter Graefe RIP
in Ballet Obituaries and Memorials
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THE STUTTGART BALLET MOURNS THE PASSING OF DIETER GRAEFE
Dieter Graefe, former Administrator of the Stuttgart Ballet and holder of the rights to John Cranko’s ballets, passed away in Stuttgart on Saturday, April 20. As Cranko's heir, he ensured that, after the South African-British choreographer’s unexpected early death, his works were performed by companies worldwide and became classics of the international ballet repertoire. Thanks to Graefe, Cranko's masterpiece Onegin, for example, is one of the most popular ballets in the world today.
https://www.stuttgart-ballet.de/the-stuttgart-ballet-mourns-dieter-graefe/