Tuesday, January 21

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A new exhibition is called "The Pavlova Project."

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In conceiving and executing The Pavlova Project in which Pavlova’s life comes alive through the recreation of her costumes and couture, Peggy Turchette brings together her three loves — sewing, dolls and ballet. The story of Pavlova inspired her and she spent eight years to recreate clothes that Pavlova wore – on and off stage – and to tell her story through this visual medium. Pavlova was quite the fashionista and trendsetter, often featured in magazines and newspapers. What she wore was always of great interest, an interest that Pavlova consciously encouraged. To be in the public eye meant visibility which in turn meant survival of her company.

 

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Behind the scenes at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Ballet Academic Program.

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Seven Level 5 students, including Taisi and Elisha, are uniformly clad in navy bodysuits, white tights and ballet slippers. Already, they look like the professionals they’re training to become, their ages only given away by the occasional mouthful of braces. Their teacher, Johanne Gingras, is getting them warmed up for a morning of ballet. They’ll be dancing for the next two and a half hours or so. Students usually clock about five or six hours of dance a day if they have evening rehearsals for upcoming shows, six days per week.

 

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A review of the Royal Ballet in "Onegin" by Mark Ronan for The Article.

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Here he was magnificent, and Natalia Osipova as Tatiana captured the role to perfection, going from bookish and passionate ingénue to the devoted wife of Prince Gremin. Gary Avis in this role was everything one could wish for, good-humoured, engaging and sympathetic, well expressed by the Act Three pas de deux with his wife, who begs him to stay though he has to leave. After Onegin then enters the bedroom she recalls her lost passion, but calls up the emotional strength to tear up his letter just as he tore up hers in Act Two when she refuses to take it back.

 

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Latest developments in the Alexandra Waterbury court case.

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Longhitano’s lawyer Adam Silverstein argued that the claims against his client should be dismissed — admitting that the messages were “sexist and gruesome and something that you wouldn’t expect an adult to write.”

“Maybe a teenager or an immature college student,” Silverstein said in Manhattan Supreme Court Tuesday calling the texts “obnoxious.”