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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. 

National Ballet of Ukraine’s performance in Orlando is currently streaming 

Xander Parish is now listed as a dancer at Norwegian National Ballet and is scheduled to dance Albrecht in Giselle. But the roster does not mention him as a principal.

https://operaen.no/en/about-us-oslo-operahouse/the-norwegian-opera-and-ballet/norwegian-national-ballet/

Also Vasilii Tkachenko, former dancer at Mariinsky is listed here. 

Vera Segova, another Vaganova graduate who was a soloist at Bayerische Staatsballett will also be moving into Berlin.
The artistic director will be Christian Spuck from 2022/23 season. 

LIZI AVSAJANISHVILI is listed as corps de ballet at Staatsballett Berlin. 
https://www.staatsballett-berlin.de/ensemble/lizi-avsajanishvili/469

also her Instagram profile

https://instagram.com/lizzkaavs?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Misha Barkidjija  who left Mariinsky has joined the Australian Ballet as coryphee.

https://australianballet.com.au/people/misha-barkidjija

A beautiful but tragic trailer of the performance, dancers dancing in the ruins of Ukraine. 

https://cloudflarestream.com/564171df138fa4e77fb6ac7023b547d8/watch

Nadezhda Batoeva has been promoted to principal dancer after her performance as Kitri.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf2F9vAtS6Q/

https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/company/ballet/soloists/

Here are more information on the United Ukrainian Giselle and the foundation that supports it.

http://unitedukrainianballet.com/

It seems that the Ratmansky Giselle is choreographed for this initiative and might be different from the Bolshoi one. 

Here's one recent sample, October 2021 in Tokyo, in a gala.  Kovalyova's Black Swan and White Swan. It is a short video so it might be not enough to say opinions though. 

I absolutely agree with volcanohunter on her opinion about Kovalyova. I saw her last October in a gala in Tokyo where she danced Black Swan and she was falling off her pointe so often, and also her portrayal of Odile was very puzzling. Sevenard was also in the same gala, and although I am not a fan of her at all, she was at least better than Kovalyova. 

Putin's daughter is said to be in a relationship with the ex-head of the Munich State Ballet, Igor Zelensky.

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/putin-tochter-soll-mit-ex-chef-des-muenchner-staatsballetts-liiert-sein-a-b571f397-4f35-4802-a8c9-2ed008bf4d7b

Also on Russian media.

https://istories.media/amp/investigations/2022/05/19/myunkhenskaya-doch-vladimira-putina/

In English

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/05/19/investigation-links-german-ex-ballet-director-zelensky-with-putins-daughter-a77728

Sofya Khoreva, younger sister of Maria has announced on her Instagram that she will be joining Mariinsky.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdizi5lolBD/

Official announcement by Madison Keesler.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CceQ7IAJ3i1/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Julian MacKay has written on his Instagram story that leaving SFB was not his choice. He is thanking Helgi Thomasson for his guidance during his time there. 

A relief gala Dance for Ukraine, organized by Alina Cojocaru and Ivan Putrov is currently streaming on Marquee TV.

It is definitely worth the price and will be donation for a great cause. 

https://www.marquee.tv/danceforukraine

Aitor Arrieta, Alina Cojocaru, Alison McWhinney, Emma Hawes, Fernando Carratalá Coloma, Francesco Gabriele Frola

Fumi Kaneko, Ivan Putrov, Javier Torres

Junor Souza, Katja Khaniukova, Luca Acri, Marianela Nuñez, Marianna Tsembenhoi, Mathias Dingman

Mathieu Ganio, Mayara Magri, Miki Mizutani, Natalia Osipova, Rebecca Bassett-Graham, Reece Clarke

Salvatore de Simone, William Bracewell

This performance will be available from April 14th through April 24th.

All proceeds go to

Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC), Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal

Giselle at Tetro Colon, starring Natalia Osipova and Daniel Camargo will be streamed free Sunday 17 April 2022
1700 Argentine time.  
 
https://teatrocolon.org.ar/es/en-vivo

Speaking of Daniel Camargo, Giselle at Teatro Colon in Argentine with Osipova and Camargo as leads will be streamed on April 17th 17:00 local time for free.

https://teatrocolon.org.ar/es/en-vivo
 

Trailer

Polish National Opera will live stream a relief concert for Ukraine, today April 14th 18:30 Europe time. Free but donations suggested.

Proceeds from the event will be donated to relief efforts for Ukrainian children, those fleeing their motherland with their mothers, orphans and children in children’s homes.

Part 1

LUBAWA SYDORENKO
Ab Initio (Sypmphony of the beginning)
for symphony orchestra and violin solo
Stanisław Tomanek - violin

STANISŁAW MONIUSZKO
Cossack
words: Jan Czeczot
Olga Pasiecznik - soprano
Lech Napierała - piano

ZOLTAN ALMASHI
A liść uniosą dalej wody rzeczne…
words: Czesław Miłosz

ALEKSANDR SHYMKO
Hymn to Solitude
for soprano and chamber orchestra
words: Halina Poświatowska
Agata Zubel - soprano

Part 2 – Ballet Showcase – prerecorded music

Prayer from the ballet Kurt Weill
choreography: Krzysztof Pastor
music: Kurt Weill
Maksim Woitiul

The Silver Lake from the ballet Kurt Weill
choreography: Krzysztof Pastor
music: Kurt Weill
Diogo de Oliveira, Patryk Walczak

How long more? from the ballet Kurt Weill
choreography: Krzysztof Pastor
music: Kurt Weill
Chinara Alizade, Vladimir Yaroshenko

Exodus from the ballet Exodus
choreography: Anna Hop
music: Wojciech Kilar
soliści i zespół PBN

Requiem from the ballet And The Rain Will Pass…
choreography: Krzysztof Pastor
music: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Yuka Ebihara, Paweł Koncewoj and Polish National Ballet dancers 

A report on this suggested merge of the management on Washington Post.　They seem to want to get rid of Urin.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2022/03/25/putin-bolshoi-mariinsky-gergiev/

Denis Matvienko, former Mariinsky Principal and former AD of Novosibirsk Theatre Ballet, currently Vaganova Academy teacher wrote on Instagram that he and his wife Anastasia Matvienko (first soloist at Mariinsky) has left Russia where they had lived for 15 years. This post is extremely sad, Artem Datsishin the National Ballet of Ukraine dancer who was killed in the attack was his close friend. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CbeP5p8IAhO/?utm_medium=copy_link
 

Kyiv Ballet (National Ballet of Ukraine) Swan Lake full length.

Choreography Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, Alexandre Gorski Choreographic Version Valery Kovtun (premiered in 1986)

Stage and Costumes Design Maria Levytska

Odette/ Odile Natalia Matsak

Prince Siegfried Denys Nedak

Rothbart Yaroslav Tkachuk

Pas de trois Ganna Muromtseva, Olga Skripchenko, Oleksandre Skulkine

The Brides & Big Swans Margarita Alyanakh, Irina Borisova, Ganna Muromtseva, Svetlana Onipko

Little Swans Elisaveta Goguidze, Katerina Didenko, Inna Chorna, Katerina Chupina

Venetian Dance Oleksandre Skulkine

The Tutor Sergey Litvinenko

The Knight Vladislav Ivashchenko

The Queen Ludmila Melnik

The Ballet Company of The National Opera of Ukraine

The Orchestra of The National Opera of Ukraine

Conductor Mykola Dyadura

Eifman Ballet’s tour to Chicago expected this May is cancelled.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/3/14/22977994/eifman-ballet-cancel-chicago-auditorium-theatre-russia

Instagram and Facebook will no longer been available in Russia from March 14th and Russian dancers are opening their channels on the Telegram platform, as well as the Bolshoi Ballet. 
 

Also Russian state owned YouTube channels will be blocked. 

There are many Japanese students in Ballet academies in Russia, and although Vaganova Academy is advising that it is not dangerous to stay, many are attempting to fly home. About a dozen Japanese students of Novosibirsk academy have traveled to Vladivostok where there is a direct flight to Tokyo but the flight was canceled and they are stranded. Now visa and master cards could not be used, SNS not working, the value of roubles diminishing, they are asking help to the Japanese embassy.