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Roslyn Anderson on working with Kylián and news of his future plans

May 21, 2013 – 9:41 am

In anticipation of Nederlands Dans Theater’s tour to Sydney next month I recently spoke with Jiri Kylián’s long-term assistant and

By valerie | Tagged Australian Ballet, Bella Figura, Falling Angels, Gods and Dogs, Jiri Kylian, Nederlands Dans Theater, Norwegian National Ballet, Petite Mort, Roslyn Anderson, Sabine Kupferberg, Sarabande, Soliders Mass, Stepping Stones | Comments (0)

Matt Mattox, Oklahoma!, 1949, National Library of Australia, nla.pic-vn3805194

Matt Mattox: the Australian years – from Oklahoma! to Song of Norway

April 28, 2013 – 10:21 pm

Oh What a Wonderful Mornin’ it was for Rodgers and Hammerstein when Oklahoma! opened in New York in March 1943.

By valerie | Tagged Agnes de Mille, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Edna Busse, Gemze De Lappe, George Balanchine, J C Willamson, Jacques d'Amboise, Katharine Sergava, Lee Christofis, Marc Platt, Matt Mattox, Michael Kidd, Oklahoma!, Russ Tamblyn, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Song of Norway, Strelsa Heckelman, Tommy Rall, Vasillie Trunoff, Vladimir Kostenko | Comments (8)

The law of unforeseen consequences unfolds at the Bolshoi Ballet

March 10, 2013 – 11:13 am

Many years ago a newspaper editor introduced me to the “law of unforeseen consequences”. It’s a distant cousin of Murphy’s

By valerie | Tagged Anzhelina Vorontsova, Bolshoi Ballet, Clement Crisp, Diamonds, Jewels, Le Corsaire, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Pavel Dmitrichenko, Sergei Filin, Yuri Grigorovich | Comments (1)

The mirror images of Beauty reflected through the eyes of Ezio Frigerio

March 1, 2013 – 6:17 am

Watching a DVD filmed in 1999 of Rudolf Nureyev’s production of The Sleeping Beauty for the Paris Opera Ballet I

By valerie | Tagged Alexander Beliakov, Bolshoi Ballet, Ezio Frigerio, Franca Squarciapino, Nicholas Georgiadis, Paris Opera Ballet, Polish National Ballet, Rudolf Nureyev, The Sleeping Beauty, Yuri Grigorovich | Comments (0)

Anna Karenina: Tolstoy’s tragedy interpreted by six choreographers

February 27, 2013 – 8:55 am

Anna Karenina, the movie directed by Joe Wright and starring Kiera Knightley, opens with a painting of the curtain at

By valerie | Tagged Alexei Ratmansky, André Prokovsky, Anna Karenina, Australian Ballet, Boris Eifman, Damien Welch, Dimitrije Parlic, Joe Wright, Keira Knightley, Marilyn Rowe, Maya Plisetskaya, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Stanton Welch | Comments (3)

Anna Pavlova at the Castello di Vigoleno, 1925, © Studio fotografico Moreschi

Pavlova’s Italian escape, captured by the camera of Gianni

February 12, 2013 – 11:44 am

Among the many full-page photographs in the new book, Anna Pavlova, Twentieth Century Ballerina, three in particular caught my eye.

By valerie | Tagged Anna Pavlova, Cyril Beaumont, Cyril Beaumount, Jane Pritchard, Victor Dandre | Comments (5)

Brigitte Kelly in costume for Choreartium, 1938 or 1939, photo © Spencer Shier, National Library of Australia

Brigitte Kelly and Strelsa Heckelman: lives dedicated to dance

January 13, 2013 – 9:00 pm

Two dancers whose with close connections to Col de Basil’s Ballets Russes’ tours to Australia have died – Brigitte Kelly,

By valerie | Tagged Anglo-Polish Ballet, Brigitte Kelly, Col. de Basil, Dancing Years, Edouard Borovansky, Gay Rosalinda, Helene Kirsova, J C Williamson, Leon Woizikowski, Les Ballets Trois Arts, Maria Sanina, Marie Rambert, Matt Mattox, Michel Fokine, Oklahoma!, Strelsa Heckelman, The King and I, Vassilli Trunoff | Comments (2)

Nureyev in Le Corsaire: “Choreographed on him by God”

January 6, 2013 – 6:56 am

It’s 20 years today since Rudolf Nureyev died at Notre Dame du Perpétuel Secours hospital in Paris. The time of

By valerie | Tagged Agrippina Vaganova, Alexander Chekrygin, Alexei Ratmansky, Alistair Macaulay, Drigo, Ezio Frigerio, Joseph Mazilier, Juiie Kavanagh, Jules Perrot, Le Corsaire, Margot Fonteyn, Marius Petipa, Nikolai Zubkovsky, Robert Greskovic, Rudolf Nureyev, Samuil Andrianov | Comments (0)

Semyon Chudin and Olga Smirnova in George Balanchine’s Diamonds. Photo © Elena Fetisova

The luminous Olga Smirnova, the Bolshoi’s new star

December 17, 2012 – 11:59 am

When the veteran dance critic, Clement Crisp, writes that he is “dazzled” by a dancer’s presence and describes her manner

By valerie | Tagged American Ballet Theatre, Bolshoi Ballet, Clement Crisp, Diana Vishneva, Ivan Vassilev, Jewels, La Bayadere, Mariinsky Ballet, Natalia Osipova, Olga Smirnova, Pharoah;s Daughter | Comments (0)

Lynn Seymour, Royal Ballet, 1958, photo Norm Danvers, courtesy State Library of NSW, Mitchell Library, Australian Photographic Agency - 05948

The Royal Ballet tour of Australia, 1958: the launch of a photographer’s career and the debut of a swan

November 29, 2012 – 7:36 am

Today, when a ballet company goes on an international tour, the dancers are lucky to spend a couple of weeks

By valerie | Tagged Alan Alder, Anne Heaton, Anya Linden, Audrey Farris, Bryan Ashbridge, Colin Jones, David Blair, Donald Britton, Donald MacCleary, Edward Miller, Elaine Fifield, Gillian Orpin, Gordon Aitken, Henry Legerton, John Field, John Frost, Kathleen Geldard, Lorna Mossford, Lynn Seymour, Margaret Knoesen, Margaret Lee, Margot Fonteyn, Ninette de Valois, Phillip Chatfield, Robert Helpmann, Rowena Jackson, Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet, Susan Alexander, Svetlana Beriosova | Comments (4)

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