Tuesday, March 22

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Q&A with Ethan Stiefel.

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Is there someone in particular who has influenced your career?

My amazing parents, my incredible wife Gillian, every dancer I shared the stage with, and are you ready for this... my motorcycles.

 

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The New Jersey Ballet presents "Hansel and Gretel."

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“We take away a lot of the seriousness out of the story. As an example, the scenes with the witch are pretty funny and audiences seem to enjoy that light touch,” said David Tamaki, the managing director of the New Jersey Ballet in an interview. “We try to focus on the children, too, not the witch.”

 

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A review of La Scala Ballet's "Jewels" by Valentina Bonelli for Fjord Review.

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The triptych entered in La Scala repertory in 2011 under the direction of Makhar Vaziev, and has in past seasons featured many guest stars: Olesia Novikova, Leonid Sarafanov, Ivan Vasiliev in “Rubies;” Alina Somova, Polina Semionova, Friedemann Vogel, Guillaume Côté in “Diamonds.” Manuel Legris, a director who strongly supports his artists cast only La Scala principals and soloists in the main roles, some of them making their debut, alternating themselves in the three different ballets.

 

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Jacopo Tissi will perform at a Ukraine peace gala in Milan.

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    As well as Tissi, other performers will include the principal dancer of the Wiener Staatsoper, Alexey Popov, and the principal dancers of the Kiev Opera, Anastasia Gurskaj and Stanislav Olshansky.