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Q & A with Ratmansky

May 28, 2013 – 9:17 pm

Alexei Ratmansky, photo © MIRA

With the Bolshoi Ballet’s season in Australia to open tomorrow, I spoke a week ago on the phone to Alexei

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Alexei Ratmansky, Australian Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Cinderella, Davd McAllister, Jerome Kapla, Le Corsaire, The Bright Stream | Comments (1)

Frederic Franklin, the Peter Pan of dance

May 9, 2013 – 10:22 am

Frederic Franklin, Rodeo, photo © Maurice Seymour

Six weeks before the start of World War I, Fred Franklin, a caterer, and his wife, Mabel, gave birth to

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Agnes de Mille, Alexandra Danilova. Gaite Parisienne, Alicia Markova, Anton Dolin, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Colin Peasley, Frederic Franklin, Jack Anderson, Lydia Kyasht, Nicolai Legat, Rodeo, Tulsa Ballet | Comments (1)

The luminous Olga Smirnova, the Bolshoi’s new star

December 17, 2012 – 11:59 am

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

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

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Bolshoi Ballet, Clement Crisp, Diana Vishneva, Ivan Vassilev, Jewels, La Bayadere, Mariinsky Ballet, Natalia Osipova, Olga Smirnova, Pharoah;s Daughter | Comments (0)

The Australian Ballet gala: Tributes to the past, hopes for the future

November 4, 2012 – 11:33 am

Australian Ballet gala curtain call, photo © Australian Ballet gala curtain call, front row, Sofiane Sylve and Pierre-Francois Vilanoba, Julie Kent, Maina Gielgud, David McAllister, Dame Margaret Scott, Marilyn Jones, Marilyn Rowe, Naoki Takagishi and Mizuka Ueno photo © Filip Konikowski

On November 2, 2012 – 50 years to the day since Peggy van Praagh and her deputy, Ray Powell, took

By valerie | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged Adam Bull, After the Rain, Amber Scott, Australian Ballet, Carmen Suite, Christopher Wheeldon, Damian Smith, Daniel Camargo, David Hallberg, David McAllister, Demis Volpi, Don Quixote, Ellen Badenes, Etudes, Giselle, Harald Lander, Julie Kent, Kevin Jackson, Lana Jones, Little Monsters, Maina Gielgud, Margaret Scott, Marilyn Jones, Marilyn Rowe, Mizuka Ueno, Naoki Takagishi, Natasha Kusen, National Ballet of China, Pierre-François Vilanoba, Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Sofiane Sylve, Stuttgart Ballet, Sun Ruichen, Swan Lake, Tokyo Ballet, Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, Ty KIng-Wall, Zhu Yan | Comments (0)

Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo: ABT marks the 70th anniversary of the moment “we put our feet on the ground”

October 16, 2012 – 1:17 pm

Rodeo, Pennsylvania Ballet, photo © Alexander Iziliaev

America was at war following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour and the United States was “never more deeply determined

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Aaron Copland, Agnes de Mille, Frederic Franklin, Kasimir Kokitch, Oliver Smith, Rodeo | Comments (0)

David Hallberg the headline attraction for the Australian Ballet’s gala

May 14, 2012 – 9:03 am

David Hallberg, photo © Matthew Karas for Dance Magazine

David Hallberg will return to Australia to guest with the Australian Ballet in the company’s s 50th anniversary gala in

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Australian Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Carmen, Daniel Camargo, David Ashmole, David Hallberg, David McAllister, Demis Volpi, Elisa Badenes, Etudes, Harald Lander, Kazuo Kimura, Lisa Pavane, Michele Wiles, Mizuka Ueno, National Ballet of China, Tokyo Ballet | Comments (0)

The May-December triumph of Daria and Vadim

February 15, 2012 – 11:32 am

Daria Klimentova and Vadim Muntagirov, Swan Lake Act III, photo © John Ross

At 38, Daria Klimentova, was ready to retire when she was called to Wayne Eagling’s office. The artistic director of

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Daria Klimentova, English National Ballet, Kevin McKenzie, Vadim Muntagirov, Wayne Eagling | Comments (0)

Borders break down as dance stars lead a double life

September 22, 2011 – 6:39 am

David Hallberg in Sleeping Beauty

There’s a buzz about the move of David Hallberg, American Ballet Theatre principal, to the Bolshoi Ballet and a fair

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged Bolshoi Ballet, David Hallberg, Diana Vishneva, Ethan Stiefel, Gillian Murphy, Kevin McKenzie, Royal New Zealand Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Sergei Filin | Comments (0)

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