Serge Lifar – Valerie Lawson's Dancelines

Tag Archives: Serge Lifar

The Paris Opera Ballet brings Nureyev’s Swan Lake and works by Forsythe, Robbins and Pite to Australia

December 28, 2019 – 2:39 am

The Paris Opera Ballet will return to Australia in July next year at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane.

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged Ab [intra], Blake Works I, Crystal Pite, Ezio Frigerio, George Balanchine, Giselle, In The Night, James Blake, Jerome Robbins, Max Richter, Palais Garnier, Paris Opera Ballet, Rafael Bonachela, Roslyn Sulcas, Rudolf Nureyev, Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky pas de deux, The Seasons' Canon, William Forsythe | Comments (0)

Nijinsky’s father-in-law: The Australian connection

August 15, 2016 – 1:01 pm

When the dancers of Diaghilevâ€™s Ballets Russes sailed on the SS Avon from Southampton to Buenos Aires in 1913, there

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Ballets Russes, Charles Pulszky, Romola Pulszky, Sergei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky | Comments (1)

Benjamin Millepied: A stranger in his own land

February 8, 2016 – 1:24 pm

When Brigitte LefÃ¨vre prepared for her retirement as director of the Paris Opera Ballet, she made it known that her

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker, Antony Tudor, Arthur Pita, Aurelie Dupont, Batsheva Dance Company, Benjamin Millepied, Bolshoi Ballet, Brigitte LefÃ¨vre, Carolyn Carson, Deborah MacMillan, Edouard Lock, English National Ballet, George Balanchine, George Skibine, Giselle, Ivan Clustine, Jerome Robbins, John Neumeier, John Taras, Josua Hoffalt, Kenneth MacMillan, La Bayadere, Laurent Hilaire, Le Corsaire, Liam Scarlett, Maguy Marin, Maurice Bejart, Natalie Portman, New York City Ballet, Ohad Naharin, Paris Opera Ballet, Patrick Dupond, Pina Bausch, Roland Petit, Romeo & Juliet, Rosella Hightower, Ross Stretton, Royal Ballet, Rudolf Nureyev, School of American Ballet, Sidi Larbi Cheraoui, Stephane Lissner, Violette Verdy, William Forsythe | Comments (2)

St Petersburg Blue and French White unite in Imperial Suite

May 6, 2014 – 9:22 pm

Ballet Imperial and Suite en blanc share much – their speed and exactitude, the technical challenges that allow no hiding

By valerie | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged Ako Kondo, Amber Scott, Australian Ballet, Ballet Imperial, Brett Chynoweth, Brett Simon, Calvin Hannaford, Daniel Gaudiello, George Balanchine, Hoang Pham, Hugh Colman, Karinska, Kenneth Rowell, Lana Jones, Laura Tong, Luke Marchant, Maina Gielgud, Nicolette Fraillon, Rudy Hawkes, Suite en blanc, Suzanne Farrell, Tchaikovsky | Comments (0)

Ballets Russes film found

February 1, 2011 – 8:12 am

Diaghilev with Serge Lifar

Very close to the close of the Victoria & Albert’s Diaghilev exhibition in London, the curator, Jane Pritchard, has uncovered

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged Ballets Russes | Comments (0)