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Urin offers Tsiskaridze ‘a civilised farewell’

Ismene Brown Blog, 11 October 2013

http://www.ismeneb.com/Blog/Entries/2013/10/11_Urin_offers_Tsiskaridze_a_civilised_farewell.html

"Urin puts home talent first at the Bolshoi"
Ismene Brown, Saturday, 21 September 2013

"Signs are that new Bolshoi chief Vladimir Urin is adopting a more 'Russian' line for the Bolshoi Opera than his predecessor Anatoly Iksanov, who favoured an international outlook for Russia's flagship company."

http://www.ismeneb.com/Blog/Entries/2013/9/21_Urin_steers_the_Bolshoi_into_homegrown_path.html

I was surprised to read the following --

"But in a society where 30 per cent of Muscovites thought that the acid-in-the-face attack on Sergey Filin ordered by a Bolshoi enemy was a legitimate punishment for a rival" . . . .

From:

Opinion: When artists could speak out: Pressure mounts on Russian musicians who supported Putin campaign to repudiate anti-gay laws

by David Nice, The Arts Desk, 12 August 2013

http://www.theartsdesk.com/classical-music/opinion-when-artists-could-speak-out

It looks like the Mark Morris Dance group has created a Dance for PD at Home dvd.

http://danceforparkinsons.org/at-home-dvd

Urin: ‘I’m not tied to the job - I’ll go if I don’t think it’s working’ / How to resolve conflicts and build artistic focus

Ismene Brown Blog, Wednesday, 24 July 2013

"New Bolshoi director’s first big interview"

Ismene Brown Blog

Friday, 19 July 2013

http://www.ismeneb.com/Blog/Entries/2013/7/19_New_Bolshoi_directors_first_big_interview.html

You are a magician!! The new content choices on the left panel are working (past week, past 24 hours etc)

"Russians split over Bolshoi acid attack". Ismene Brown Blog. Sunday, 7 April 2013.

http://www.ismeneb.c...cid_attack.html

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Tsiskaridze’s lawyer claims Bolshoi plot to dismiss him

Ismene Brown Blog. Thursday, 4 April 2013

"A top lawyer hired by Bolshoi star Nikolai Tsiskaridze says she believes the Bolshoi Theatre is trying to engineer his dismissal via a legal device - issuing him with official reprimands about his press utterances."

Polunin’s Crown Prince Rudolf in Mayerling reviewed. Ismene Brown Blog. 25 March 2013.

theartsdesk in Moscow: Sergei Polunin triumphs in Mayerling. Natalie Wheen. 25 March 2013.

"Photographer Willy Rizzo's best shoot". Interview by Andrew Pulver. The Guardian, 30 September 2009

http://www.guardian....izzo-best-shoot

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Thanks for posting that news clip. I was interested to hear Volochkova speak so highly of Grigorovich. But then later I read that she danced with the Grigorovich Ballet after she left the Bolshoi. . .

Slightly off topic but I loved this quote from an article about the Volochkova scandal:

Interview with Polunin:

"Sergei Polunin on the Royal Ballet, Mayerling and the Filin business"

Ismene Brown Blog, 23 March 2013

http://www.ismeneb.c...n_business.html

Thanks for posting about these lecture demonstrations. Here is the playlist: https://www.youtube....Y7NtNKDLD8tgQGC

Ballet Evolved -- The First Four Centuries

Introduction

Ballet Evolved - Marie Taglioni 1804-1884

An introduction to ballerina Marie Taglioni, the most famous dancer of the Romantic era.

Ballet Evolved - Anna Pavlova 1881-1931

Discover more about Anna Pavlova, the most famous dancer of her day…

Ballet Evolved - Fanny Elssler 1810-1884

An introduction to ballerina Fanny Elssler, famed during her lifetime for dancing The Cachucca.

Ballet Evolved - Alicia Markova 1910-2004

Watch Royal Ballet dancer Romany Pajdak perform an extract of Ashton's Foyer de Danse - a work created on Alicia Markova in 1934.

Politico calls for Bolshoi to “elect its leaders”. Ismene Brown Blog. 22 March 2013

http://www.ismeneb.c...ts_leaders.html

Main Ismene Brown Blog Page with previous articles including "Treasury auditors move in on Bolshoi spending". 21 March 2013.

http://www.ismeneb.c.../Blog/Blog.html

A short video segment showing Liam Scarlett starting the choreographic process with two dancers for a new ballet. I really enjoyed watching this and thought some of you might as well

http://www.telegraph...king-risks.html

About Zarutsky. . .

"The burly, grim-faced Zarutsky, who served seven years in a maximum security prison for beating up someone who later died, tried to cover his face from TV cameras with his tattooed hand when he was led into the courtroom. He made an indecent gesture and uttered an obscene comment to reporters who shouted out questions about his part in the crime."

http://www.washingto...676f_story.html

Flower Festival in Genzano - Pas de deux: Rudolf Nureyev & Merle Park

La Sylphide - Flemming Flindt & Lucette Aldous

This article from 2005 also refers to violence with acid. The article, from the NYTimes, is about the Russian choreographer, Dmitri Briantsev, who was murdered in Prague in 2005, probably because of business dealings.

http://www.nytimes.c...nce/15miss.html

From an interview on DanceViewTimes with Robert Fairchild by Michael Popkin, February 23, 2012

DanceView: Can you talk about what goes into good partnering?

Fairchild: It’s all coordination. Because there are certain lifts that you wouldn’t think would be a problem at all, but if you don’t have the coordination, it won’t happen. So you’re going for a lift, but if she pliés before you’re ready, then it’s no good. You have to plié with her, and lift her just at the moment her foot is pushing off the floor, with your hands going up at the same time as her body, and so that it’s timed as perfectly, and is as easy as can be. But also the girl has to let the guy do it. Which is really hard for some girls to do, because they might get stuck with a bad partner early on and learn to do it themselves; because originally that’s what they needed to do for the show. So it’s a challenge sometimes and it’s funny to say to your partner, “Stop doing anything here, you need to let me move you,” and mainly the guy is in charge. He’s the driving force. And if the girl’s responsive to that, then ideally you’re going to find the coordination.

http://danceviewtimes.typepad.com/michael_popkin/2013/01/robert-fairchild-im-doing-this-with-everybody-and-its-not-all-about-me-new-york-city-ballets-young-s.html

The Royal Ballet is now including tweets on their cinema live productions which probably will mean they will be on any future dvds

"A final grump: cinema audiences were encouraged to tweet their views before, during the interval or at the end to #ROHnutcracker.

Put the trite comments on the ROH site, by all means, but not on screen as the performers take their bows. Why should I care that Bev thought it triff or Phil found it awesome?"

The Royal Ballet – Nutcracker live screening in cinemas by Jann Parry, Dance Tabs, December 18, 2012

http://dancetabs.com...mas-everywhere/

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Rodion Shchedrin: A Russian Composer

A Film by Wolf Seesemann

The first documentary about the Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin!

Featuring Martha Argerich, Valery Gergiev, Mariss Jansons, Lorin Maazel, Mikhail Pletnev, Maya Plisetskaya and many more …

Trailer:

Description:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Arthaus%2BMusik/101663

http://www.amazon.com/Russian-Composer-Shchedrin/dp/B009IF12XW/ref=sr_1_6?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1359317783&sr=1-6&keywords=Shchedrin

"Bolshoi ballet artistic director 'calm' after acid attack on Moscow street"

by Miriam Elder, The Guardian, 20 January 2013

The attack has also exposed a wave of violence that has swept Russia's arts world. Last week, the director of a St Petersburg theatre's production of Lolita was beaten up by unknown men. In the same city earlier this month, a museum devoted to Vladimir Nabokov, the author of Lolita, was defaced.

In December, a director at Moscow's Gogol Theatre, Alexey Malobrodsky, was beaten up. After the attack on Filin, the theatre's new artistic director, Kirill Serebrennikov, revealed he had also been receiving threats. He published one threatening text message on his Facebook page. . .

http://www.guardian....scow-no-arrests

This incident is truly way beyond anything I've heard before. Is so sad-(and scary)-that from now on we have to start thinking of such venerable, loved institution as the Bolshoi of Ulanova, Bessmertnova and Maximova now linked to such level of criminality and craziness....

If this is ever demonstrated to be as a professional turmoil, then something has been broken forever....

I feel the same. . .