dirac Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 Q&A with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Quote I imagine you sometimes think or dream about your time there. Of course. Occasionally I speak Russian, and quite often I read Russian literature. This is the language of my mother. She was a really simple woman from Kstovo, near the Volga River. I learned my first Russian words from her. I remember her voice, the specific Volga region kind of music. Her sounds. Her “o.” Her vowels. Link to comment
dirac Posted July 7 Author Share Posted July 7 A review of an Alexei Ratmansky double bill in Amsterdam by Leigh Witchel for dancelog.nyc. Quote Ratmansky knew he wanted to choreograph The Fairy’s Kiss by the time he was 18. It’s as Romantic as Ratmansky gets, buying into the idea of the artist, and choreographer, as a man searching for his destiny. A man. Not a woman. That could just be a sense of identification, but the final moments felt off in Miami, and they still did. The fairy, the fiancée and the mother walked in for a final pose, laying down and gazing at the young man as he was raised high. Was that an artist’s benediction of the women who inspired and nurtured him, or were they laying down so he could walk over them on his way up? Link to comment
dirac Posted July 7 Author Share Posted July 7 Alessandra Ferri is interviewed for People magazine. Quote “I have a very different experience in this second part of my artistic life, and I think it is the honesty and strength of being able to dance who I am and [as] characters that are my age,” Ferri says, of her connection to the role. “Dance can be a language that can represent life in every aspect. It's a lot of work. It's not easy, because obviously the body is the body, so you have to fight it sometimes … but there's a very beautiful, liberating and calm feeling about just [being] onstage.” Link to comment
dirac Posted July 7 Author Share Posted July 7 Roster changes at the Royal Ballet. Quote As previously announced, Principal dancer Alexander Campbell left The Royal Ballet earlier this year to take up a new role as Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Dance. After 11 years with The Royal Ballet, and with the last year spent as a guest dancer in Norway, Soloist Gina Storm Jensen will now become a permanent member of The Norwegian National Ballet. Link to comment
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