dirac Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Natalia Ashikhmina announces her retirement from the Louisville Ballet. Quote “It’s the greatest, most romantic story. And just spend time with my family, one more time, have fun and all the way from fun to the tragedy, it’s a big spectrum you know? So to share that with them one more time,” Ashikhimina said. She plans to stay in Louisville after retirement. Link to comment
dirac Posted February 21 Author Share Posted February 21 Andrew Veyette remembers. Quote Watch as Principal Dancer Andrew Veyette reminisces on the first NYCB performance he attended as a School of American Ballet student. The performance was certainly impressive, but a chance glimpse of an artist's humanity in the wings made the most lasting impression. Link to comment
dirac Posted February 21 Author Share Posted February 21 Ballet San Antonio presents "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Quote Approximately 30 students from the school will be in the production – the biggest production they’ve ever produced, according to Artistic Director Sofiane Sylve. “It takes a village to put on a production like that,” Sylve said on the company’s Facebook page. Link to comment
dirac Posted February 21 Author Share Posted February 21 Ivan Putrov presents "Dance for Ukraine" at the London Palladium. Quote Olga Smirnova, who left Russia in protest against the war and is currently with Dutch National Ballet, was very beautiful as The Dying Swan but she was more appealing in the second half dancing Carmen Suite with Denis Matvienko. They were both delectably sultry but Alberto Alonso’s 1967 choreography does look a bit dated now. Link to comment
dirac Posted February 21 Author Share Posted February 21 A review of the Ballet of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre in "Don Quixote" by Ilona Landgraf for "Landgraf on Dance." Quote Moscow’s ballet audience is well-versed and demanding. The crowd that filled the Stanislavsky Theatre last Thursday to watch Don Quixote gave the quirky Don Quixote (Nikita Kirillov) and his gluttonous squire, Sancho Panza (Konstantin Semenov), a friendly but reserved welcome. The company’s former artistic director, Laurent Hilaire, added the production to the repertoire in 2019, and Hilaire’s successor, Maxim Sevagin, has kept it since 2022. As a former etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet who danced under Rudolf Nureyev’s directorate, Hilaire chose to introduce the Russian audience to Nureyev’s version of Don Quixote. Its set and costume design replicates Nicholas Georgiadis’s originals for the Paris Opera premiere. Link to comment
dirac Posted February 21 Author Share Posted February 21 Ballet West enjoys a robust box office. Quote While Scolamiero said they are still diving into what is leading to this success, they believe the heightened interest in Ballet West can be attributed to several factors, including an increase in returning attendees and greater focus and spending on marketing. Scolamiero said the audience, which is trending younger than in the past, is returning and subscribing at higher rates. Link to comment
dirac Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 San Francisco Ballet presents "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Quote This season’s run of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is also the North American debut of iconic French designer Christian Lacroix’s opulent costume and set designs, which were commissioned by the Paris Opera Ballet and debuted in Paris in 2017. Link to comment
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