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naomikage

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  1. 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==
     

     

  2. New release in German 

    https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/die-staatsoper/medien/detail/news/alessandra-ferri-wird-naechste-direktorin-des-wiener-staatsballetts/

    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.

  3. A source study of two ballets and a divertissement by Marius Petipa
    Douglas Frederick Fullington

    is available online, and is a valuable writing of 464 pages. (thanks to a post on the ballet.co forum by Sebastian) 

    https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/49092/Fullington_washington_0250E_24377.pdf?sequence=1

     

    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.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Five-Ballets-Paris-St-Petersburg/dp/0190944501/ref=sr_1_1?crid=35QDKE359Z1FY&keywords=Doug+Fullington&qid=1696489635&sprefix=doug+fullington%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-1

  4. 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.

     

  5. 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

     

     

  6. 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) 

  7. 5 hours ago, volcanohunter said:

    I have seen several productions by the National Ballet of Japan, but the Korean National Ballet is mostly unfamiliar to me, and I thought its ballerinas were beautiful (apart from their poky Russian fouettés). I was also surprised that its class was primarily in English, because a quick look at its website suggests the company is overwhelmingly Korean.

    The feed from the Estonian National Ballet includes José Martinez and Agnès Letestu rehearsing Le Corsaire.

    Sometimes The Korean National Ballet streams their whole productions online but they are only streamed live and don't keep archives. So I have seen several performances by that way and they have a very high standard of Classical Ballet. Kiwan Kim, one of the principals is a brother of Kimin Kim. 

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