La Bayadère Intensive Day 1: There's Life in the Old Girl Yet
Standard YouTube LicenceI hesitated before signing up for Jane Tucker's La Bayadère intensive at KNT even though I had voted for it when Karen Sant polled us on what we wanted to learn because I was...
View ArticleLa Bayadere Intensive Day 2: Idols and Disembodied Shades
Standard YouTube LicenceThere is a mirror at the front of the studio where we train. I glanced at it yesterday as I entered our notional stage from the top of its imaginary ramp. Try as I could to...
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La Bayadere Intensive Day 3: No Snakes
The Florist and her Handiwork: No Snakes in her basketIt was only on the train home that it occurred to me that there might have been more tactful ways of showing our appreciation to our excellent...
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Manchester's Link with English National Ballet
Manchester Opera HouseAuthor: Mike PeelCreative Commons LicenceSource WikipediaAs a Mancunian I am immensely proud that the company which is now England's national ballet company danced its first...
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Why Terpsichore Yorkshire?
A few minutes ago I launched Terpsichore Yorkshire with an article about Planet Dance, a dancewear retailer and wholesaler in Baltley. By so doing I am looking after my core audience, the adult dance...
View ArticleNorthern Ballet's New Season
Standard YouTube LicenceLast September Northern Ballet opened their new season with Jonathan Watkins's 1984 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse which they then took on tour They danced Wuthering Heights in...
View ArticleUlysses Unbound
Yesterday, scientists from Queen Mary University of London reported evidence of an exoplanet slightly heavier than the earth orbiting our nearest star at a distance that could sustain life. Nature, a...
View ArticleBallet West's 2017 Tour
Standard YouTube LicenceBallet West is a ballet school not far from Oban in the Western Highlands. It must be a very good school for several of my favourite young dancers trained there. Sarah Mortimer...
View ArticleNow that we have had a go at La Bayadere let's see the Experts do it properly
Standard YouTube LicenceEarlier this month a dozen adult ballet students at KNT Danceworks in Manchester took part in a three-day workshop on La Bayadère. We did a little show at the end which you can...
View ArticleLooking forward to the Gala and trying to get the Night Fall Video to work
Standard YouTube LicenceThis time next week Team Terpsichore should be in Amsterdam.We are very excited about it. One member of our team is an eating expert who can't wait to get her gnashers into...
View ArticleDutch National Ballet's Opening Night Gala - Improving on Excellence
Standard YouTube LicenceThe first time I saw the video of Ernst Meisner's No Time Before Time was in the Prix de Lausanne finals. I fell in love with it there and then. When I saw it live for the...
View ArticleNorthern Ballet's "Wuthering Heights" at the West Yorkshire Playhouse
Standard YouTube LicenceNorthern Ballet, Wuthering Heights, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds 6 Sep 2016Guest Contributor Janet McNultyThe West Yorkshire Playhouse (WYP) has always been a special...
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Northern Ballet's "Wuthering Heights" at the West Yorkshire Playhouse - about...
Emily BtonteArtist Bramwell BrinteSource WikipediaNorthern Ballet Wuthering Heights West Yorkshire Playhouse, 9 Sept 2016It was only upon a last minute impulse that I decided to check West Yorkshire...
View ArticleAt last we have a Synopsis for Giselle Re-imagined. Oh Boy! Do we have a...
Standard You Tube LicenceAkram Khan's Giselle will open in Manchester on 27 Sept though there will be previews on the 23 and 24.English National Ballet and the Palace Theatre have published the...
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Three Days in Amsterdam
Cristiano Principato with the author(c) 2016 Gita Mistry: all rights reservedReproduced by kind permission of the copyright ownerAlthough the opening night gala for the Dutch National Ballet was my...
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Virtual Reality in Ballet
HTC's marketing director wearing his company's equipmentAuthor:Maurizio PesceCreative Commons LicenceSourceWikipediaThe Dutch National Ballet presented Night Fall with considerable publicity at the end...
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Dutch Nationl Ballet Gala - Le Grand Défilé
Le Grand DéfiléPhoto Michel Schnater(C) 2016 Dutch National Ballet: All rights reservedLicensed by kind permission of Richard HeidemanDutch National Ballet, Gala, Stopera, 7 Sept 2016 Nothing gives a...
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Ballet in Cornwall
The peninsula in the far south west of our island is a magical land that I know well. I am told that I took my first steps on the sands at St, Ives where my parents lived when my father taught at...
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Toer van Schayk's "Episodes van Fragmenten"
Toer van Scayk wearing the Medal of the Order of Orange-NassauPhoto Juri Hiensch(c) 2016 Dutch National BalleLicensed by kind permission of Richard HeidemanDutch National Ballet, Episodes van...
View ArticleCassa Pancho is coming to the London Ballet Circle
Standard YouTube LicenceTomorrow at 19:30 Cassa Pancho, the London Ballet Circle's most recently appointed Vice-President will address members of the Circle and their quests at the Civil Service Club,...
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