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World Ballet Day # 2: The Bolshoi Ballet

October 1, 2014 – 2:12 pm

The Bolshoiā€™s class was the most perfunctory of the three companies Iā€™ve seen so far on World Ballet Day but

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged Alexander Vetrov, Bolshoi Ballet, Boris Akimov, Jean-Christophe Maillot, Nadezhda Pavlova, Sergei Filin, Taming of the Shrew, Yuri Grigorovich | Comments (0)

Queensland Ballet 2015: Cojocaru as Aurora and a London debut with La Sylphide

September 22, 2014 – 5:23 am

For his third year as artistic director of the Queensland Ballet, Li Cunxin has invited Alina Cojocaru to guest in

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged Australian Ballet, Ben Stevenson, Carlos Acosta, Coppelia, Gary Harris, Greg Horsman, Li Cunxin, Nutcracker, Peter Pan, Peter Schaufuss, Queensland Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Tamara Rojo, The Sleeping Beauty, Trey McIntyre | Comments (0)

Ivan and Marilyn: a long, loving dance partnership linking Hungary with Australia

February 26, 2014 – 12:09 pm

Ivan Nagy, a former principal with American Ballet Theatre and husband of the Australian dancer, Marilyn Burr, has died in

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged American Ballet Theatre, Aniko Nagy, Australian Ballet, Ballet de Santiago, Budapest State Opera, Cincinnati Ballet, Cynthia Gregory, English National Ballet, Festival Ballet, Frederic Franklin, Gelsey Kirkland, Hungarian State Opera House Ballet, Ivan Nagy, Margot Fonteyn Carla Fracci, Marilyn Burr, National Ballet Company Australia, National Ballet of Washington, Raymonda | Comments (6)

Three directors and 18 years later, Olivia Bell bows out with style

November 25, 2013 – 1:28 pm

Olivia Bell gave a gracious and elegant farewell performance last night in the ballerina role in Paquita at the Sydney

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Australian Ballet, Chengwu Guo, David McAllister, Maina Gielgud, Miwako Kubota, Nutcracker, Olivia Bell, Paquita, Ross Stretton | Comments (2)

Adventures by the fireside

April 15, 2013 – 5:53 am

After watching Queensland Balletā€™s Cinderella on a Friday night and the Australian Balletā€™s Don Quixote the following Monday Iā€™ve started

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Australian Ballet, Cinderella, Don Quixote, La Bayadere, Queensland Ballet | Comments (1)

Ratmansky’s Cinderella tops the bill for the Australian Ballet in 2013

September 5, 2012 – 5:41 am

The big catch of 2013 for the Australian Ballet is one of the worldā€™s most acclaimed choreographers, Alexei Ratmansky. His

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged Alexei Ratmansky, Australian Ballet, Balanchine, Bella Figura, Bernard Taper, Cinderella, David Bintley, David McAllister, Don Quixote, Dyad 1929, Etudes, Garry Stewart, Graeme Murphy, Harald Lander, Jerome Kaplan, Jiri Kylian, Luke Jennings, Monument, Paquita, Prokofiev, Rudolf Nureyev, Simon Dow, Stephen Baynes, Swan Lake, The Four Temperaments, Wayne McGregor | Comments (0)