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Goodness Me! Another Stabbing
When I wrote in Cuthbertson's Giselle that"love - or least infatuated - and infatuation makes fools of us all. I have seen what it has done to my friends and it is actually one of the stories on my...
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Theatre Street
The Vaganova AcademyAuthor: OperaJoeGreenSource WikipediaCreative Commons LicenceWhat makes Russian ballet so special? In her memoirs Theatre Street, the great Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina...
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The Royal Ballet's New Season
Royal Opera HouseThe Royal Opera House announced its 2016-2017 season yesterday and released a video of a discussion between Kasper Holten and Kevin O'Hare about their respective companies' offerings....
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Principato's Project
Cristiano PrincipatoPhoto Robin DePuy(c) Dutch National Ballet 2014Reproduced with kind permission of the Dutch National BalletCristiano Principato is an Élève (which translates roughly as "pupil",...
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We had a stab at that! KNT's Romeo and Juliet Intensive Workshop for Beginners
Not literally, perhaps, because we didn't have the manpower for a street brawl or time for the Mercutio v Tybalt or Tybalt v Romeo showdowns but we did have a go at modified versions of the Dance of...
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Look what I've found!
(c) 2016 Gita Mistry, all rights reservedWhereas most of my contemporaries St Andrews spent their pennies on Sergeant Pepper or Revolver I spent mine on ballet music. My pride and joy was this...
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Bolshoi's Don Quixote
Honoré Daumier's Don QuixoteSource WikipediaBolshoi Ballet, Don Quixote, streamed live from Moscow, 10 April 2016It is very easy to enjoy a performance of a ballet one loves. It is very much harder to...
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...... and they sounded great
The Album Notes for the recording of Richard Bonynge's Giselle(c) 2016 Gita Mistry, all rights reservedOn Sunday I mentioned my collection of student LPs which I have just discovered (see Look what...
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The Winter's Tale Revisited - Some Ballets are better Second Time Round
Antigonus and the Bear from The Winter's Tale Author: Thomas Bragg (printmaker)Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image CollectionSource WikipediaCreative Commons LicenceThe Royal Ballet, The Winter's...
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My Trip to Hungary
Zero Ballet Contemporary Dance Studio, Budapest, Standard YouTube LicenceJust under two years ago I met a dancer called Mel Wong (see Introducing Mel 27 June 2014). I met her in Sheffield and gave her...
View ArticleRomeo and Juliet Intensive - the awful proof as the camera does not lie
(c) KNT Danceworks 2016On 9 April 2016 I wrote about Jane Tucker's intensive workshop at KNT (see We had a stab at that! KNT's Romeo and Juliet Intensive Workshop for Beginners 9 Apr 2016). We had a...
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What's in a Name?
Deborah Bull with Dominic North and Robert Parker(c) 2016 Chantry Dance Company: all rights reservedReproduction licensed by the companyAs I said in "My Trip to Hungary" 21 April 2016, I met Mel at...
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Sir Peter Wright's The Sleeping Beauty in Budapest
Standard YouTube LicenceHungarian National Ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, Budapest Opera House, 17 April 2016Last Sunday I attended the opening night of Sir Peter Wright's production of The Sleeping...
View ArticleNDT2 at the Lowry
Standard YouTube LincenceNederlands Dans Theater 2, Mixed Programme, Salford, 19 April 2016Last Sunday I saw the Hungarian National Ballet perform The Sleeping Beauty in Budapest (see Sir Peter...
View ArticleBallet Central's Only Performance in the North
Yesterday I wrote about Nederlands Dans Theater 2 (see NDT2 at the Lowry 24 April 2016) and I have written a lot over the years about the Dutch National Ballet's Junior Company. None of our leading...
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Delighted to announce @chrismarney appointed as our new Artistic Director https://t.co/X1OXeSwPVY Photo: Kate Parkes pic.twitter.com/oC2c2E0e4s— Ballet Central (@balletcentral) April 25, 2016This news...
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Happy World Intellectual Property Day
Today is World Intellectual Property Day and I wish everybody in the dance world a happy World Intellectual Property Day, "Thank you very much" I hear you say "but what's that got to do with me or...
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Jane Eyre Update
Brontë ParsonageAuthor SpaceMonkeySource WikipediaLicensed with the kind permission of the authorOn 20 Sept 2015 I wrote about Northern Ballet's Jane Eyre. I based my article on the press release of 17...
View ArticleHard not to have Favourites ...... Ballet Cymru's Little Red Riding Hood...
While much of the ballet world has been commemorating the fourth centenary of the death of William Shakespeare (see Opera, Ballet and the Bard - Shakespeare Lives 23 Apr 2016) Ballet Cymru will be...
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Update on the Trecate Gala
Earlier this month I wrote about a gala that Cristiano Primcipato is organizing in Trecate near Novara at 9 pm on 28 June 2016 to raise funds for Casa Alessia to carry out relief work in Burundi (see...
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