Staatsballett Berlin. Stage rehearsal of Balanchine’s Jewels. Photo by @Pauliosovari.
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Staatsballett Berlin. Stage rehearsal of Balanchine’s Jewels. Photo by @Pauliosovari.
Somehow, Olga Smirnova is making this choreography and her beautiful Vaganova/Bolshoi style all new to me--every phrase urgent and unexpected, her extension and command of the stage gripping. I’m shocked that something that’s often seen in the US as so cliched and mannered (from the cutting reviews of the Bolshoi Ballet’s Swan Lake in Lincoln Center a couple years ago) is so breathtaking, new, and moving to me this morning.
Today’s must see: extraordinary Olga Smirnova and Semyon Chudin in Bolshoi’s Swan Lake, the White Swan pas de deux.
Léonore Baulac (newly named etoile!) and Hugo Marchand: Clear, Loud, Bright, Forward, Paris Opera Ballet, choreographed by Benjamin Millepied
“Mr. Millepied keeps up a constant flow of ingenious combinations as a third and fourth musical movement offer slow, mysterious strings shading into slightly ominous terrain with harsh trumpet interjections. Solos and pas de deux begin to emerge from the ensemble formations, with Léonore Baulac and Hugo Marchand in a particularly beautiful fluid duet, full of swirling, skimming turns...
Mr. Millepied’s choreographic style is his own — fleet, with the body often arrested in sudden still positions that draw the eye to the beauty of line in classical ballet. His partnering is inventive without being overly manipulative. He is highly musical and although the ballet is abstract, the gestures and groupings often suggest a social world, evoking thoughts of friendship, love, power, isolation, fear and hardship.” --Roslyn Sulcas, NYTimes (x)
Words and music by Pat Kennedy. Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/patkennedyplaysmusic/?fref=ts Buy it on Bandcamp: https://patkennedy.bandcamp.co...
Some shameless self-promotion because I love Pat’s music and it’s such a cool thing to have been involved with this...!
I’m currently sitting in my tiny college bedroom, which recently has become my post college bedroom seeing as I graduated 3 weeks ago, in…
Vaganova Ballet Academy “The Nutcracker” dress rehearsal is on today at the Mariinsky Theatre. Only a few days left till the performances commence.
Iana Salenko in Le Papillon.
Photo © Maria-Helena Buckley.
Professional figure skaters….
IS THAT EVGENI PLUSHENKO AND JOHNNY WEIR I AM CRYING
I LOVE THEM.
Sylvie Guillem as Kitri guesting with the Mariinsky Ballet in 1990
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