Unsurprisingly, pretty impressive! Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet is currently on tour in London, and Britain’s Telegraph was able to get some great video footage of the company’s ladies in their morning class at the Royal Opera House. The paper had a special tour guide, too: principal dancer Ekaterina Krysanova, one of the ballerinas tackling the role […]
And I mean that title two ways! The English National Ballet just finished a run of Swan Lake at Royal Albert Hall in London. But Royal Albert Hall isn’t your average proscenium theater. Instead, it’s a theater in the round: Photo by Laurent Liotardo So right off the bat you know this isn’t your everyday […]
“Sesame Street” is on a roll these days! Just a couple of weeks ago, they had Melissa McCarthy doing the “flap-a-waddle-boom-boom” dance in honor of a very special word of the day, “choreographer.” And in today’s episode, things got even dancier. Muppets Murray Monster and Ovejita took a trip to Lincoln Center to visit some […]
Tonight CBS broadcasts the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors—and one of the honorees is a true ballet legend. There are many incredible ballerinas dancing today, but nobody can ever quite measure up to Natalia Makarova. She first rose to fame at the Kirov Ballet in the 1960s, but after she defected from the USSR in 1970, […]
A week from Friday, Birmingham Royal Ballet soloist Céline Gittens will dance Odette/Odile in the company’s production of Swan Lake. Gittens is a gorgeous dancer, lyrical and elegant—she’ll make a perfect swan. She’ll also make history, as the first black dancer to perform the ballerina role in the UK. There’s been a lot of discussion […]
Most dancers are familiar with the ballet classic Swan Lake. Set to a score by Tchaikovsky, it’s the story of a prince’s quest to free an enchanted swan princess. But more than 100 years after the original was created, inventive choreographer Matthew Bourne came along and changed the Swan game. He kept a few things […]