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The Bolshoi returns to Australia

January 19, 2019 – 10:19 am

The Bolshoi Ballet is returning to Australia in winter with two ballets, George Balanchine’s Jewels and Yury Grigorovich’s Spartacus. The

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged Bolshoi Ballet, George Balanchine, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Spartacus, Yury Grigorvich | Comments (0)

The Bolshoi’s Jewels, with Smirnova the glittering centrepiece

February 20, 2014 – 10:07 am

There were at least two compelling reasons to see the Bolshoi Ballet’s performance of Balanchine’s Jewels, filmed in Moscow last

By valerie | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged America Grand Prix, Bolshoi Ballet, Christian Lacroix, Diamonds, Elena Zaitseva, Emeralds, George Balanchine, Karinska, Katerina Novikovaa, Mariinsky Ballet, Merrill Ashley, New York City Ballet, Olga Smirnova, Paris Opera Ballet, Paul Boos, Royal Ballet, Rubies, Sandra Jennings, Semyon Chudin, Sergei Filin, Sergei Polunin, The Bolshoi costume designs for Jewels are by Elena Zaitseva and the sets designer is Alyona Pikalova, Vaganova | Comments (2)

The miracle that is Olga Smirnova

August 15, 2013 – 7:14 am

Leo Schofield writes for dancelines from London “It’s unspeakably bad for so many reasons that the injured Bolshoi Ballet director

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Alexei Ratmansky, Bolshoi Ballet, Clement Crisp, Diamonds, Ekaterina Shipulina, George Balanchine, Les Flammes de Paris, Olga Smirnova, Paris Opera Ballet, Svetlana Zakharova | Comments (0)

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 | Posted in Features | Also tagged Anzhelina Vorontsova, Bolshoi Ballet, Clement Crisp, Diamonds, Le Corsaire, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Pavel Dmitrichenko, Sergei Filin, Yuri Grigorovich | Comments (1)

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 | Posted in Features | Also tagged American Ballet Theatre, Bolshoi Ballet, Clement Crisp, Diana Vishneva, Ivan Vassilev, La Bayadere, Mariinsky Ballet, Natalia Osipova, Olga Smirnova, Pharoah;s Daughter | Comments (1)

High hopes for the new year

January 1, 2012 – 2:53 am

I’m anticipating a happy new dance year with the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Australian Ballet, the 60th anniversary of

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Anouk van Dijk, Australian Ballet, Babel, Ballo della Regina, Benjamin Millepied, Can We Talk About This, Christopher Wheeldon, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Concerto, DGV: Dance a Grand Vitesse, English National Ballet, Entity, Ethan Stiefel, Gardenia, Gideon Obarzanek, Gillian Murphy, Hamburg Ballet, Johan Kobborg, John Neumeier, Larry Keigwin, Lauren Cuthbertson, Les ballets C de la B, Mariinsksy, Natalie Weir, Onegin, Pina in 3D, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Serei Polunin, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Stephen Baynes, The Sleeping Beauty, Warumuk, Water Stains on the Wall, Who Cares? Balanchine | Comments (0)

Christian Lacroix: fashion on the ballet stage

December 27, 2011 – 12:13 pm

Fashions in ballet costumes change slowly but you only need to look at tutus as they have evolved from the

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Australian Ballet, Brigitte Lefèvre, Christian Lacroix, Gâité Parisienne, George Balanchine, Karinska, La Source, Paris Opera Ballet | Comments (0)

“You have dancing shoes with nimble soles” *

August 14, 2011 – 5:32 am

Ballet flats have been a fashion staple ever since Audrey Hepburn danced through Paris in the movie, Funny Face. The

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Australian Ballet, Balanchine, ballet flats, Bally, Bloch, Fashion, Olivia Bell, Sambag, Van Cleef and Arpels | Comments (0)

Sparkling Jewels and Balanchine’s babies

June 10, 2011 – 12:17 pm

by Meredith Brooks George Balanchine’s full evening work Jewels, first staged complete in 1967, is now in the repertoire of

By valerie | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged George Balanchine, New York City Ballet, School of American Ballet | Comments (0)

Tag Archives: Jewels

The Bolshoi returns to Australia

The Bolshoi’s Jewels, with Smirnova the glittering centrepiece

The miracle that is Olga Smirnova

The law of unforeseen consequences unfolds at the Bolshoi Ballet

The luminous Olga Smirnova, the Bolshoi’s new star

Christian Lacroix: fashion on the ballet stage

“You have dancing shoes with nimble soles” *

Sparkling Jewels and Balanchine’s babies

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