dirac Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 San Francisco Ballet's encore run of "Swan Lake" will feature guest stars. Quote Natalia Osipova, Daniel Camargo and Jacopo Tissi are scheduled to appear with the San Francisco Ballet during its encore performances of “Swan Lake,” the company announced Monday, March 4. The high-profile guest appearances, set for April 30 through May 5, are part of a new programming strategy under Artistic Director Tamara Rojo, who assumed the top leadership post at the Ballet in 2022. Link to comment
dirac Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 A review of New York City Ballet by Jennifer Homans in The New Yorker. Quote No more. Her ballet, “Concerto for Two Pianos,” shows Peck to be a choreographer of considerable skill and range. Set to the double-piano concerto by Francis Poulenc, the dance she has devised is a perfect match: a mercurial and moody rush through styles and ideas for nineteen dancers which leaves us somehow lighter—and full of the great good energy of Poulenc and the dancers. In an era inclined to narrative and political art, Tiler Peck is not afraid to give us the pure pleasure of music and dance. Link to comment
dirac Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 An interview with Jean-Christophe Maillot by Victoria Looseleaf in San Francisco Classical Voice. Quote “For me,” said Maillot in a recent phone conversation, “the question that arises with traditional big ballets [is that] everybody knows the story; everybody’s relating to it. If we do a new one, what’s the point of view we can have that makes it interesting? Every [production of] Coppélia that I’ve seen, this lady [Coppélia] sitting on the balcony, was the most uninteresting character of the ballet. Link to comment
dirac Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 The Joffrey Ballet announces its 2024-25 season. Quote Joffrey’s 69th season, and its fourth at the Lyric Opera House, will open Oct. 17-27 with the American premiere of Marston’s “Atonement,” based on Ian McEwan’s novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and turned into a 2007 movie. Related. Quote Other engagements in the year ahead include “Winning Works” (March 14-23, 2025) by the Joffrey Academy of Dance, the Joffrey with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (April 10-13, 2025) and Joffrey on Tour at Ravinia in Highland Park this coming September. Link to comment
dirac Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 A preview of Carlos Acosta's new "Nutcracker in Havana." Quote The show, which is set to tour U.K. cities from November, will be performed by some 20 dancers from Acosta Danza, the Havana-based dance company Acosta founded in 2016 after retiring from classical ballet. Link to comment
dirac Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 Alberta Ballet presents "Hansel and Gretel." Quote The show was programmed by Ventriglia’s predecessor, Christopher Anderson, as part of the 2023-2024 season. But the Italian choreographer, who was announced as the ballet’s artistic director in December, feels a connection to Hansel & Gretel, particularly its creator/choreographer Loughlan Prior. Prior danced for the Royal New Zealand Ballet when Ventriglia was artistic director of that company. He left in 2017, two years before Prior was commissioned by the company to create a new version of the fairy tale. But Prior began his choreography career under Ventriglia’s watch. Link to comment
dirac Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 Ballet Arkansas celebrates its forty-fifth season. Quote To honor this momentous occasion, Ballet Arkansas leaders Micheal and Catherine Fothergill said they have a breathtaking lineup throughout the year, including a Pointe Gala, a Mother’s Day production entitled Bravo and the classic production The Nutcracker. Link to comment
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