dirac Posted October 20 Share Posted October 20 A review of the National Ballet of Canada by jenny Gilbert for The Arts Desk. Quote t's all there in the homegrown triple bill the company has brought to Sadler’s Wells. But the primary message seems to be that The Great White North has undergone a choreographic renaissance over the past decade, becoming a purveyor of hot-ticket choreographers to the wider world. This programme spans three generations of creators, each of whom challenges ballet tradition in their own way. Link to comment
dirac Posted October 20 Author Share Posted October 20 Princess Diana's ballet teacher writes a memoir. Quote Schedules permitting, Allan indulged the young princess’s love of dance in one-to-one sessions on a weekly basis. The lessons were secret, and their effect transformative. Diana’s ‘head continued to look at the floor. I gently noted that the head was the heaviest part of the body… I wanted her to feel the freedom that dance can give, and she did.’ The pupil ended the first lesson by giving her teacher a small posy. Many cherished handwritten notes would follow, and it was the beginning of an important relationship. The princess’s metamorphosis from Shy Di to Britain’s most glamorous asset began there, on the sprung floor of a Hammersmith dance studio in a simple leotard. Link to comment
dirac Posted October 20 Author Share Posted October 20 An obituary for Michaela DePrince in The Times. Quote Unable to speak English, DePrince showed her adoptive mother the tattered magazine cover. Elaine immediately understood and set about enrolling her daughter in ballet classes, dispelling her dread of wearing a leotard by assuring her that her vitiligo looked like pixie dust. The language barrier was apparently gone a few months later when, while sitting in the audience of a performance of the Nutcracker, DePrince leant over and confidently tutted, “that girl messed up”. Link to comment
dirac Posted October 20 Author Share Posted October 20 Annabelle Lopez Ochoa on creating a ballet about Coco Chanel. Quote But when Hong Kong Ballet artistic director Septime Webre invited her to create a new work that was connected to Chinese culture but avoided politics, she initially was flummoxed. “I said Chanel was on my bucket list but that it had nothing to do with China,” recalls Lopez Ochoa, who had yet to visit Hong Kong. Webre leapt on the idea, pointing out the reverence with which the country’s population viewed fashion, Chanel in particular. “Now that I’ve been to Hong Kong I know every five or six blocks there’s a Chanel boutique, always with a queue outside, so it did have a relationship to Chinese culture.” Link to comment
dirac Posted October 20 Author Share Posted October 20 Melanie Hamrick on her relationship with Mick Jagger. Quote Their sweet interactions just push the public to want to know even more about their relationship. In 2022, a harmless post to Hamrick's Instagram prompted the internet to believe she was engaged to Jagger. The ring that got everyone talking turned out to be just a promise ring, according to Hamrick. She told People in 2023, "I mean, I have to giggle because did Mick give me the ring? Yes. Is it for that finger? Yes. But are we like, horny teenagers where we're giving each other — In my mind, it's a promise ring." Link to comment
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