Tuesday, February 22

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A six-year-old girl experiences "A Day in the Life of a Ballerina" with Grand Rapids Ballet.

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Madison joins the Fox 17 Morning Mix via Zoom, along with Artistic Director James Sofranko and Grand Rapids Ballet company dancer Sarah Marley, to talk about her experience of being a ballerina for a day.

 

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Houston Ballet holds a gala with a "Jewels" theme.

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Blink and you’d miss the ruby-shaped dance floor at Wortham Theater Center on Saturday night. Look up, and a cluster of diamond-fabric chandeliers loomed overhead. Loose gems were projected on the grand foyer walls next to paintings — not portraits — of Houston Ballet dancers dressed in jewel tones.

 

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A ballet-themed television series, "Find Me in Paris," is picked up by Disney Plus.

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Broadcast in over 80 territories, “Find Me in Paris” (78 x 26’) follows the story of Lena Grisky, a time-travelling ballet dancer from 1905 Russia trapped in modern day Paris, and the many dilemmas she faces finding her place between two worlds. The series has also been a social media hit across all platforms, with the soundtracks registering 18 million streams across all music streaming platforms for 2020/2021 and its YouTube channel recording 46.1 million views to date.

 

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A Dance Magazine cover story profiling Indiana Woodward.

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But as she slowly adjusted to the studios’ raked floors and rigorous stretching practices, Woodward started learning Russian together with another scholarship winner, Gabe Stone Shayer—now a soloist with American Ballet Theatre and still a friend. She also fell in love with her character-dance classes. “The teachers would ask us to be very aware of our fingertips or the placement of our port de bras to explain a story with movement, which is such a delicate thing,” she says. These skills remain evident in Woodward’s emotive approach to roles like Princess Aurora and Juliet.  

 

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An AP obituary for Henry Danton.

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A celebration of Danton’s life will be held March 20 at South Mississippi Ballet Theatre in Hattiesburg.

 

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The  Perm Opera and Ballet Theater appoints a new music director, Migran Agadzhanyan.

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He studied singing with Vladimir Eknadiosov, a teacher at the Rostov State Rachmaninoff Conservatoire, and also trained at Rome’s National Academy of Santa Cecilia where his voice teachers were Renata Scotto and Giuseppe Sabbatini. 

 

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The National Portrait Gallery and Scottish Ballet cut ties with BP.

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Separately, Scottish Ballet, Scotland’s national ballet, said its agreement with BP no longer "aligns with the company's green action plan - to be carbon neutral by 2030” and it had ended the deal, in agreement with BP, on January 31.  

 

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A review of New York City Ballet by Leigh Witchel for dancelog.nyc.

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In Mearns’ universe, she’s always center stage and we are merely her audience – and as long as she delivers, that’s just fine. To hold up her end of the bargain, she danced the swan queen in the way that looked best on her. A more spacious tempo is right for what she does. At the end of the adagio, instead of the abbreviated sigh usually seen, Balanchine kept the fast coda, but even here, and in her solo, Mearns kept the tempo and the movement spacious.

 

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Jeffrey Cirio returns to Boston Ballet.

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“Jeffrey is one of the most gifted male dancers in the world,” Boston Ballet artistic director Mikko Nissinen says. He calls Cirio “a fast learner and so freaking smart … an extremely versatile dancer with the full package — artistry, technique, and musicality.”