dirac Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 A list of dancers to watch in the 2024-25 season by Deborah Weiss for Bachtrack. Quote Ivana Bueno, First Soloist, English National Ballet Mexican born Ivana Bueno started her dance training at the Fomento Artístico Cordobés in Córdoba, furthering her studies at the Princess Grace Academy in Monte Carlo. She joined English National Ballet in 2018 and a steady, upward trajectory has culminated last month in a promotion to First Soloist. Apart from her obvious talent, she possesses a great work ethic. She was the winner of ENB’s Emerging Dancer in 2020 and was already proving herself in principal roles when she danced her first Clara/Sugar Plum in Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker in 2022. In June 2023, she stepped in to do Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella in-the-round at the Royal Albert Hall, with great success. In June this year, with a week’s notice, she made a spectacular debut as Odette/Odile in Derek Deane’s Swan Lake in-the-round. She makes her debut in the title role in Mary Skeaping’s Giselle at the Liverpool Empire on October 26th. Link to comment
dirac Posted August 26 Author Share Posted August 26 Rowena Jackson has died at age 98. Quote Rowena was later appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1961 for her services to dancing, and was the first ever person to receive the honour in that category. She married British dancer Philip Chatfield in 1958 and had two children with him - the couple were together up until his death in 2021 aged 93. Related. Quote The legendary dancer was born in Invercargill in 1926 and began her dancing career as a teenager in 1940. The passionate performer worked tirelessly to promote ballet dancing in the 50s and 60s in NZ, and elegantly danced her magic on the stage hundreds of times. Statement from the Royal Opera House. Quote .......... Her roles for the Company included Odette/Odile (Petipa and Ivanov’s Swan Lake), the title role of Perrot, Petipa and Coralli’s Giselle, which she performed with her husband Philip Chatfield as Albrecht in 1958, Blue Bird and Aurora (Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty), The Fairy Autumn (Ashton’s Cinderella), The Queen of Fire (Ashton’s Homage to the Queen), Swanilda and Aurora (Petipa, Cecchetti, Ivanov and Sergeyev’s Coppélia) and Columbine (André Howard’s Veneziana). Link to comment
dirac Posted August 26 Author Share Posted August 26 Dancers of the Mariinsky Ballet will perform with Ballet Manila in "Giselle." Quote This exciting collaboration for Ballet Manila’s 26th season was made possible by Lisa Macuja-Elizalde, the company’s artistic director. Her deep ties with the Mariinsky Ballet (formerly the Kirov Ballet) — where she trained and became the first foreign soloist in the mid-’80s — were crucial in bringing this performance to life. Link to comment
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