dirac Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 Makhar Vaziev says the Bolshoi Ballet will eventually return to the West. Quote "I have no doubt that one day everything will go back to how it should be because culture is a wave that is very hard to suppress," Vaziev, 62, said in an interview. "Many governments have banned cultural figures from Russia...but we are still talking to the same people we talked to in the past." Link to comment
dirac Posted July 30, 2023 Author Share Posted July 30, 2023 Maine State Ballet presents "Hansel and Gretel." Quote Maine State Ballet, a nonprofit based in Falmouth, houses the Maine State Ballet Company, the 175-seat Lopez Theater, and its School for the Performing Arts, this year celebrating 100 years of dance instruction in ballet, tap and jazz. Link to comment
dirac Posted July 30, 2023 Author Share Posted July 30, 2023 A review of a John Cranko School matinee performance by Ilona Landgraf in her blog, "Landgraf on Dance." Quote As in Ludwigsburg, the students first showed an excerpt of the second act of “The Nutcracker” (Petipa, Ivanov, and Vainonen’s choreography). This time Alice McArthur danced the Sugar Plum Fairy, and in the role of her cavalier was again Joshua Nunamaker. Both are among this year’s graduates and exemplify what I observed throughout the matinee: Cranko School students deliver precise positions, clean lines, strong jumps, clear accentuation, solid balances, and – above all – they are fearless. Not a single student failed to rise to the occasion (I admired, above all, Keisuke Miyazaki in his “Swan Lake” variation and Alexei Orohovsky in a variation from “Paquita”). The “Nutcracker” was completed by a fine solo of Orohovsky, a pas de trois self-assuredly led by Waku Tohara, and an escort of four elegant young men (Adrien Hohenberg, Leon Metelsky, Carter Smalling, Sergii Zharikov). Link to comment
dirac Posted July 30, 2023 Author Share Posted July 30, 2023 Richmond Ballet makes its debut at Wolf Trap. Quote The Richmond Ballet will perform John Butler’s “Carmina Burana” and Ma Cong’s “Thrive.” Richmond Symphony and Chorus, the City Choir of Washington and vocal soloists from the Wolf Trap Opera will accompany the dance performances. Link to comment
dirac Posted July 30, 2023 Author Share Posted July 30, 2023 The third BAAND Together festival commences this week. Quote American Ballet Theatre presented “Other Dances,” a classic of Jerome Robbins, originally danced by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova and set to Chopin mazurkas and a waltz. Rising ABT star Aran Bell captured Baryshnikov’s dashing intensity, and veteran ballerina Gillian Murphy brought lightness and whimsy. Link to comment
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