#kizzy matiakis

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Stage photo of Kizzy Matiakis as Marguerite in the 2019 RDB production of "The Lady of the Camellias" by John Neumeier.

Favourite Marguerite I have seen to date. Such fond memories.

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Gregory Dean and Kizzy Matiakis in Swan Lake Photo by Jon Axel Fransson

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Kizzy Matiakis as Effy in Hübbe’s La Sylphide, Royal Danish Ballet on tour in China, 2016.

Matiakis restored my faith in the perfect Effy, after several misses, she made me love the character even more than I did when I first discovered the ballet. She is masterful in her portrayal, very sensitive and perfectly in tune with her fellow dancers, no matter which James she’s dancing opposite (I’ve seen her in three different constellations and she worked in all three wonderfully).

Photo from China Ballet Magazine.

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Friends in high places.

A couple of years ago, I wrote a few paragraphs of a novel that I plan to finish some day. A retelling of La Sylphide with James (being female in my version, James is a nickname) as a mentally ill lesbian who abandons her stable life with her girlfriend Effy (and is therefore later left by Effy for Gurn) to chase the air-like Sylph, a figment of her imagination and the embodiment of her own collapsing state of mind. Today I took a picture of these few lines I’d written and posted them to Instagram. Now, Kizzy Matiakis of the RDB has liked the post and I don’t know whether to be super proud or kind of freaked. Argh. It’s surprisingly difficult when your idols are following you on the social media. Not that I’m complaining…

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Kizzy Matiakis and Jón Axel Fransson rehearse for the Royal Danish Ballet's summer touring series

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Susanne Grinder, Femke Mølbach Slot, Kizzy Matiakis and Ida Praetorius of the Royal Danish Ballet 

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Lena Gruber and Kizzy Matiakis rehearse Harald Lander's Études, Royal Danish Ballet,