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Ballet.co Poll ResultsEnd of 2003/04 Season |
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Below are your individual submissions for the Ballet.co End of 2003/04 Season Poll.
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Best Production Overall | Les Noces |
| Best New Production | Broken Fall | |
| Best Revival | Les Noces | |
| Best Staging | Onegin | |
| Best Home Company | The Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | The Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Ivan Putrov | |
| Best Female Dancer | Alina Cojocaru | |
| Best Partnership | Rojo Cope/ Cojocaru Kobborg | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | I didn't see anything that I would call bad | |
| Special Mention | Lauren Cuthbertson and Edward watson, and Prokfiev and Macmillan for that matter putting one of the most beautiful love scenes and language, brilliantly into music and movement. Laura Morera and Thiago Soares for learning and performing wonderfully the roles of Tatiana and Onegin at such short notice. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Putrov in Prodigal, Onegin Giselle, Spectre... everything! He did all his roles with such depth of feeling and strong acting. His technique was'nt bad either!! The royal ballet in 'les Noces' were brilliant , so powerful and together . Les Noces is an amazing ballet that creates such striking images. | |
Submitted by: | Lyra | |
| Date | October 14, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Mayerling |
| Best New Production | Pharaoh's Daughter (Bolshoi) | |
| Best Revival | So Many! ProdigalSon, La Spectre dl Rose | |
| Best Staging | Onegin, Anastasia | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | To Oxford? Rambert... otherwise Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Kobborg | |
| Best Female Dancer | Yanowsky | |
| Best Partnership | Rojo/Cope in Mayerling | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares, Martin Harvey | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthburtson | |
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | Kobborg wins for his acting and attention to detail; Hope Muir of Rambert had me entranced - couldn't take my eyes off of her!; Les Noces - proving the strength of the RB corps. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Bruce's Magazine Interview!!! I learned so much!!! :) ;Ivan Putrov completely coming into his own with fabulous roles this year, including his beautiful intepretation of Lensky - more please! and Marquez's gorgeous Aurora - what a balance! again, more please! Mara Galeazzi's strength and depth. | |
Submitted by: | Ami | |
| Date | October 11, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Nijinsky (Hamburg Ballett - J. Neumeier) |
| Best New Production | ||
| Best Revival | Mayerling | |
| Best Staging | Nijinsky | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Hasmburg Ballett | |
| Best Male Dancer | Johan Kobborg | |
| Best Female Dancer | Alina Cojocaru | |
| Best Partnership | Alina Cojocaru & Johan Kobborg | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | ||
| Worst Production | Swan Lake (La Scala) | |
| Special Mention | ||
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | annamicro | |
| Date | October 11, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Spartacus |
| Best New Production | Broken Fall | |
| Best Revival | Spartacus | |
| Best Staging | Romeo & Juliet RB | |
| Best Home Company | ||
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Filin | |
| Best Female Dancer | Guillem | |
| Best Partnership | Zelensky/Zakharova | |
| Most Promising Male | Denis Savin Bolshoi | |
| Most Promising Female | Maria Alexandrova | |
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | Guillem and Acosta /Prodigal Son.
Zelensky at the Albert Hall with wonderful partners.
San Francisco Ballet
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| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | Heather | |
| Date | October 09, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Spartacus |
| Best New Production | The Pharoah's Daughter | |
| Best Revival | Spartacus | |
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| Best Home Company | ||
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Filin | |
| Best Female Dancer | Guillem | |
| Best Partnership | Filin/Zakharova | |
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| Most Promising Female | ||
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| Special Mention | ||
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | Willow | |
| Date | October 09, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | |
| Best New Production | The Pharoah's Daughter | |
| Best Revival | Spartacus | |
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| Best Home Company | ||
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Filin | |
| Best Female Dancer | Alexandrova | |
| Best Partnership | Filin/Zakharova | |
| Most Promising Male | Putrov | |
| Most Promising Female | ||
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | The Moscow Stanislavsky's "Swan Lake"
Zelensky at the Albert Hall.
Sylvie Guillem for just being. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | Ulla | |
| Date | October 09, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Pharoah's Daughter |
| Best New Production | Pharoah's Daughter | |
| Best Revival | RB Prodigal Son/Giselle (old favourite) | |
| Best Staging | RB Romeo and Juliet | |
| Best Home Company | ||
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Sergei Filin | |
| Best Female Dancer | Sylvie Guillem | |
| Best Partnership | Zelensky / Zakharova | |
| Most Promising Male | Ivan Putrov | |
| Most Promising Female | Ekaterina Shipulina (Bolshoi) | |
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | Igor Zelensky at the Albert Hall. What a fantastic night that was.
Cojocaru and Kobborg/
Maria Alexandrova for being consitantly wonderful.
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| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | RLD | |
| Date | October 08, 2004 | |
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| Best Revival | ||
| Best Staging | correction: NBT Midsummer Night's Dream | |
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| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | alison | |
| Date | October 08, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | RB Giselle & ENB's touring Swan Lake |
| Best New Production | can't think - NOT RB Cinderella | |
| Best Revival | Daphnis & Chloe | |
| Best Staging | Swan Lake (ENB - proscenium-arch version) | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi, I suppose - didn't see many | |
| Best Male Dancer | Johan Kobborg - just about | |
| Best Female Dancer | Miyako Yoshida | |
| Best Partnership | Cojocaru/Kobborg | |
| Most Promising Male | Easy - Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | More difficult - Lauren Cuthbertson, I think | |
| Worst Production | Forgotten the worst one, but bits of Ballet Preljocaj's "Near Life Experience" were pretty excruciating | |
| Special Mention | Hmm, not an easy year to pick obvious "bests", I don't think, and I'm sure I've missed a lot out, but here are some of the high points for me:
BRB's mini tours reaching the parts other companies don't reach;
Improvement in RB's mixed bill programming;
Disappointing to see so little of ENB this year, but at least their Swan Lake at the Albert Hall was much more convincing than last time around, and I actually enjoyed it a lot;
Good to see a promising RBS choreographer in Liam Scarlett;
An Evening of British Ballet and Out of Denmark - good to see RB dancers branching out into this sort of thing, and wish Dance Bites had been that enjoyable;
Glad to see that Scottish Ballet appear to be doing well under Ashley Page;
Very much enjoyed "Soldier's Tale" in the Linbury;
Henri Oguike Company: hadn't seen them before, but really enjoyed both the dancers and the choreography.
Some lovely performances by Laura Morera in most of the roles I've seen her dance this year.
Bad: the withdrawal of Tamara Rojo from "Onegin" - extremely disappointing, as I had the chance to see her in rehearsal, and none of the other casts matched her.
Bad: yet *another* substantial price hike at the ROH, although at least triple bills have come down in price. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Fortunately it wasn't literally one, although a couple of inches lower and it could have been, but quite scary to realise, during Ed Watson's second performance as Romeo, just how potentially dangerous stage sword-fighting can be.
Marvellous character artists from the Bolshoi - often better than some of the classical dancers!
Balanchine: despite watching numerous performances before, I'd never really taken to either Agon or Symphony in C, but watching them from upstairs in the amphi this year I saw them in a completely new light.
Ivan Putrov: by his third performance of Le Spectre de la Rose I thought he'd really "got" the role in a way I hadn't seen other dancers manage before, and he also made an excellent, vulnerable and moving Prodigal Son.
Anastasia: on my first few viewings of this ballet, I'd grown to like it as a 3-acter, but this time round I became much more aware of how much padding there is, and that the 3rd act would be much more effective standing on its own (even the new, amended version, which I didn't like as much). I'd like to see Monica Mason bring it back into the rep as a one-acter, preferably before various of the current interpreters retire!
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Submitted by: | alison | |
| Date | October 08, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | nutcracker |
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| Best Revival | ||
| Best Staging | mckinleyhighschool | |
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| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | ||
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | | |
| Date | October 08, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Mayerling |
| Best New Production | ||
| Best Revival | Mayerling | |
| Best Staging | The Solidar's Tale | |
| Best Home Company | ||
| Best Visiting Company | ||
| Best Male Dancer | Irek Mukhamedov | |
| Best Female Dancer | Miyako Yoshida | |
| Best Partnership | ||
| Most Promising Male | ||
| Most Promising Female | ||
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | Mukhamedov's stunning Rudof in Mayerlng and the warm standing ovation from the audience
seeing Onegin at Trafalgar Square, very romantic evening
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| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | Emily | |
| Date | October 07, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Fille de Pharaon - Bolshoi |
| Best New Production | Anna Karenina (Ratmansky) - RDB | |
| Best Revival | Abdallah (Bournonville) - RDB | |
| Best Staging | La Sylphide by Nikolai Hübbe - RDB | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Danish Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Maryinsky/Kirov | |
| Best Male Dancer | Sergei Filin | |
| Best Female Dancer | Maria Alexandrova | |
| Best Partnership | Marie-Pierre Greve and Mads Blangstrup in Anna Karenina | |
| Most Promising Male | Kristoffer Sakurai - RDB | |
| Most Promising Female | Yao Wei - RDB | |
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | Great moments:
Silja Schandorff and Nicolas Le Riche in Manon with RDB.
Nina Ananiashvili and Kenneth Greve in Anna Karenina with RDB.
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| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | JW | |
| Date | October 07, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | A Midsummer Night's Dream (NBT) |
| Best New Production | A Midsummer Night's Dream (NBT) | |
| Best Revival | Two Pigeons (BRB) | |
| Best Staging | A Midsummer Night's Dream (NBT) | |
| Best Home Company | Birmingham Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | ||
| Best Male Dancer | Chi Cao (BRB) | |
| Best Female Dancer | Ambra Vallo (BRB) | |
| Best Partnership | Ambra Vallo & Sergiu Pobereznic | |
| Most Promising Male | Jamie Bond (BRB) | |
| Most Promising Female | Ayana Kanda (NBT) | |
| Worst Production | Tragedy of Fashion (Rambert) | |
| Special Mention | Vallo and Pobereznic in Swan Lake. Sakuma and Cao (unexpectedly together) in Giselle @ Plymouth, everything about the BRB mid-scale tour, Sakuma and Parker in Two Pigeons, John Hull - bicyclist extraordinaire for NBT!, Jeremy Kerridge's final performance as Scrooge on Christmas Eve, Chiaki Nagao in everything she did, everything about A Midsummer Night's Dream and finally the WYP as a venue for ballet. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Pippa Moore, Hiro Takahashi and Chris Hinton-Lewis all blossoming in MSND | |
Submitted by: | Janet McNulty | |
| Date | October 05, 2004 | |
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| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | | |
| Date | October 05, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Mayerling |
| Best New Production | Broken Fall | |
| Best Revival | Anastasia | |
| Best Staging | Daphnis and Chloe | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi Ballet | |
| Best Male Dancer | Johan Kobborg | |
| Best Female Dancer | Alina Cojocaru | |
| Best Partnership | Cojocaru/Kobborg | |
| Most Promising Male | Ivan Putrov | |
| Most Promising Female | Caroline Duprot | |
| Worst Production | Nina Ananiashvili and the Moscow Dance Theatre | |
| Special Mention | The simplicity of Alina Cojocaru in Polyphonia.
The under-rated and excellent dancing and acting of Laura Morera as Countess Larisch in Mayerling.
The welcome return of the beautiful arms and hands of Leanne Benjamin.
Sadness at the few appearances of Marianela Nunez.
The beauty of Zenaida Yanowsky.
The bad hair of the Moscow males.
The harem in Zelensky's Sheherezade at the Albert Hall and
the entire cast exiting tghe Stage Door clutching the props.
The role of the 'fence' in The Prodigal Son.
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| Eye-opener of the Year | The supremacy of Guillem at 39.
Johan Kobborg and Bruce Samson as directors.
The energy of the evolving Ballet Boyz.
The work of Flemming Flindt.
The superb low-key choreography of Ashton. | |
Submitted by: | Sabas | |
| Date | October 05, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Mayerling |
| Best New Production | Broken Fall | |
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| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | Sabas | |
| Date | October 05, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Mayerling |
| Best New Production | Diaghilev mixed prog | |
| Best Revival | Onegin | |
| Best Staging | An Evening of British Ballet | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Ricardo Cervera | |
| Best Female Dancer | Laura Morera | |
| Best Partnership | Laura Morera / Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | Deidre Chapman Franceska Filpi | |
| Worst Production | enjoyed everything I saw , sorry ! | |
| Special Mention | William Tuckett So inventive an actor dancer ,He gave the hunt scene in Sleeping Beauty a wonderfull comic turn wandering around the stage explaing to all and sundry his faux pas with Genesia Rosato , who also had a great year ,bringing subtlety and depth to every role she graced . | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Thiago Soares was a stunning Onegin ,Morera a spellbinding Larisch,Cervera so deeply moving as Bratfish.All three redefined and brought alive these roles with a clarity and sense that I had not seen in the past. | |
Submitted by: | Scaramouche | |
| Date | October 05, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Les Noces (RB) |
| Best New Production | Broken Fall | |
| Best Revival | Mayerling | |
| Best Staging | Play Without Words - very clever | |
| Best Home Company | RB | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi (excluding their R&J!) | |
| Best Male Dancer | Acosta | |
| Best Female Dancer | Yanowsky | |
| Best Partnership | Cojocaru / Kobborg | |
| Most Promising Male | Edward Watson | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | Rambert's Tragedy of Fashion | |
| Special Mention | Mukhamedov's Rudolf in Mayerling - what a partner.
Akram Khan's arms in Kaash - gorgeous. Henry Oguike's use of music. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Leanne Benjamin - a great season coming back after maternity leave, really fine performances in everything she did from Qualia to Anastasia and others. Why she wasn't cast in Onegin I can't understand. | |
Submitted by: | Lynette H | |
| Date | October 04, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Mayerling |
| Best New Production | Daphnis and Chloe | |
| Best Revival | Anastasia | |
| Best Staging | ||
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Johan Kobborg | |
| Best Female Dancer | Zenaida Yanowsky | |
| Best Partnership | ||
| Most Promising Male | Edward Watson | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | ||
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | Fuzzyface | |
| Date | October 04, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | POB's Balanchine Programme |
| Best New Production | Bolshoi's Faraoh's Daughter | |
| Best Revival | Le Chant du Compagnon Errant (in Tokyo) | |
| Best Staging | 4T/Prodigal Son/Liebeslieder Walzer (POB) | |
| Best Home Company | Cannot comment as I failed to see no one but RB! | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Laurent Hilaire | |
| Best Female Dancer | Aurelie Dupont | |
| Best Partnership | Legris & Ludieres; Hilaire & Romoli | |
| Most Promising Male | ||
| Most Promising Female | Aurore Cordellier (POB) | |
| Worst Production | Pavane; Glacial Decoy (POB) | |
| Special Mention | Balanchine Centenary was well served by both sides of the chunnel, I thought, particularly seeing POB's take on Mr. B's works turned a mind-blowing experience - it was the personal highlight of the season. Other dancers who brightened up my days were: The one & only Uliana Lopatkina in a divine form as tormented heroine, Nikiya, partnered by Igor Zelensky, who was a golden Apollo in the same gala; ever so radiant Diana Vishneva in Ratmansky's Cinderella in Tokyo; Vladimir Malakhov's eerie & unforgettable Le Spectre de la rose in Benois gala; Acosta & Guillem's Prodigal Son, a thrilling combination of fire & ice; two of delightful & exceptional danseurs noble who were good at everything they did - Sergey Filin of Bolshoi & Jose Martinez of POB; POB's newest etoile Mathieu Ganio, clearly blessed with a gift to become a tremendous ballet star of the next generations despite a much controversial promotion drama; the last but not the least - Bolshoi's irreplaceable corps & character dancers, who renewed my passions and faith in classical ballets. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Maurice Bejart - Seeing revivals of his work "Le Chant du Compagnon Errant" danced by two of the finest male talent today, Hilaire & Legris, and "Lumiere", the documentary film featuring the long interview with him, once again fuelled my desire to know this choreographer and see his works more.
Also my heartfelt thanks to NFT, whose summer showings introduced to me late Anton Dolin, "the first British danseur noble of the 20th century" - what a character! I felt ashamed not having known him all this time..... | |
Submitted by: | Naoko S | |
| Date | October 03, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | RB Romeo and Juliet |
| Best New Production | Qualia and Cinderella | |
| Best Revival | Anastasia | |
| Best Staging | Chloe | |
| Best Home Company | The Royal Ballet - hey who else??? | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi Ballet | |
| Best Male Dancer | Carlos Acosta | |
| Best Female Dancer | Marianela Nunez | |
| Best Partnership | Cojocaru/Kobborg | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | Labia | |
| Special Mention | Liam Scarllet's piece for the royal ballet school matine performance at the royal opera house!!! | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Ed and Lauren in Romeo - yes, indeed, I never seen anything like that. | |
Submitted by: | Nick | |
| Date | October 03, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Les Noces (RB) |
| Best New Production | Milagros (RNZB) | |
| Best Revival | ||
| Best Staging | Midsummer Night's Dream (NBT) | |
| Best Home Company | GPD | |
| Best Visiting Company | ||
| Best Male Dancer | Carlos Acosta | |
| Best Female Dancer | Leanne Benjamin | |
| Best Partnership | ||
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | Green (Moscow Dance theatre) | |
| Special Mention | Highlights of the year included Nunez' Nikiya, Rojo's rethought Giselle, and Jonathan Burrows' Both Sitting. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | Jane S | |
| Date | October 03, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Mayerling |
| Best New Production | Broken Fall | |
| Best Revival | Prodigal Son | |
| Best Staging | RB Giselle | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi Ballet | |
| Best Male Dancer | Carlos Acosta | |
| Best Female Dancer | Svetlana Zakharova | |
| Best Partnership | Cojocaru and Kobborg | |
| Most Promising Male | Rupert Pennefather | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | RB Sleeping Beauty | |
| Special Mention | Zenaida Yanowsky is my favourite Royal Ballet principal; she illuminates everything she dances. The Bolshoi character dancing was superb. Hopefully there will be more enterprises like those staged by Johan Kobborg and Bruce Sansom | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Gillian Revie was an extraordinarily moving Anastasia; she remains a very under-rated dancer. | |
Submitted by: | Michael Llewellyn | |
| Date | October 01, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Romeo and Juliet |
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| Best Revival | ||
| Best Staging | ||
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Nederlands Dance Theatre 2 | |
| Best Male Dancer | Acosta | |
| Best Female Dancer | ||
| Best Partnership | Cuthbertson and Watson | |
| Most Promising Male | Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | Quadruple Bill (excluding Les Noces) | |
| Special Mention | Matthew Bourne's "Play Without Words" | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Putrov's dancing of Lensky's solo before the duel in "Onegin". I never thought anything could match the beauty of the aria at this point in the opera but Putrov managed it. | |
Submitted by: | Ian Graham | |
| Date | September 29, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | bejta company |
| Best New Production | web designer | |
| Best Revival | nice day | |
| Best Staging | theatre | |
| Best Home Company | production bejta | |
| Best Visiting Company | new fashion | |
| Best Male Dancer | bejta | |
| Best Female Dancer | klaudia | |
| Best Partnership | ddugi | |
| Most Promising Male | bruce lee is life | |
| Most Promising Female | love for everybody | |
| Worst Production | labia | |
| Special Mention | If you have respect for your self, have for everybody, if not you are nobody..? | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | This year is time to tell who you are in reality.
Best regards
All the wolrd | |
Submitted by: | bejtullah | |
| Date | September 27, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Anastasia |
| Best New Production | ||
| Best Revival | Anastasia | |
| Best Staging | ||
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Irek Mukhamedov | |
| Best Female Dancer | Genesia Rosato | |
| Best Partnership | Irek Mukhamdeov / Mara Galeazzi | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | Deirdre Chapman | |
| Worst Production | The Royal Ballet Sleeping Beauty | |
| Special Mention | Genesia Rosato and Irek Mukhamdeov's Act 1 pas de deux in Mayerling: who needs speech. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | James Black | |
| Date | September 27, 2004 | |
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| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | All awesome | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | | |
| Date | September 27, 2004 | |
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| Most Promising Male | ||
| Most Promising Female | ||
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | ||
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | | |
| Date | September 24, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | |
| Best New Production | ||
| Best Revival | ||
| Best Staging | ||
| Best Home Company | George Piper Dances | |
| Best Visiting Company | ||
| Best Male Dancer | William Trevitt | |
| Best Female Dancer | Oxana Panchenko | |
| Best Partnership | William Trevitt and Michael Nunn | |
| Most Promising Male | ||
| Most Promising Female | ||
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | George Piper - Channel 4 Choreography at the Barbican | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | Carol Norris | |
| Date | September 23, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | oneguin |
| Best New Production | qualia | |
| Best Revival | anastasia | |
| Best Staging | ||
| Best Home Company | the royal ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | ||
| Best Male Dancer | edward watson | |
| Best Female Dancer | marianela nunez | |
| Best Partnership | cojocaru/kobborg | |
| Most Promising Male | thiago soares | |
| Most Promising Female | lauren cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | lauren+edward in romeo and juliet | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | qualia
liam scarllet's piece for the royal ballet school anual matine | |
Submitted by: | nivia maria de souza | |
| Date | September 23, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | oneguin |
| Best New Production | qualia/cinderella | |
| Best Revival | anastasia | |
| Best Staging | ||
| Best Home Company | the royal ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | ||
| Best Male Dancer | edward watson | |
| Best Female Dancer | marianela nunez | |
| Best Partnership | cojocaru/kobborg | |
| Most Promising Male | thiago soares | |
| Most Promising Female | lauren cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | liam scarllet's piece for the royal ballet school matine performance at the royal opera house | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | watson+cuthbertson romeo and juliet, a joy to watch such an awaited cast in a beatiful ballet.
qualia, once again, showing us all that watson is capable of. | |
Submitted by: | erico caetano | |
| Date | September 22, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | |
| Best New Production | ||
| Best Revival | ||
| Best Staging | ||
| Best Home Company | the royal ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | ||
| Best Male Dancer | edward watson | |
| Best Female Dancer | marianela nunez | |
| Best Partnership | cojocaru/kobborg | |
| Most Promising Male | joahanes steapnek | |
| Most Promising Female | lauren cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | liam scarllet's piece for the royal ballet school matine performance at the royal opera house | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | erico montes | |
| Date | September 22, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Giselle (RB) |
| Best New Production | ||
| Best Revival | ||
| Best Staging | ||
| Best Home Company | RB | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | ||
| Best Female Dancer | Miyako Yoshida | |
| Best Partnership | Yoshida and Cope in Giselle | |
| Most Promising Male | Ivan Putrov | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | Swan Lake (NBT) | |
| Special Mention | Yoshida's silent pair of feet in Giselle. Rojo's most expressive eyes in Mayerling. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | Mika | |
| Date | September 21, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Broken Fall/Qualia/Proverb/Gong (RB) |
| Best New Production | 'Shimmer' (Richard Alston Dance Co)) | |
| Best Revival | Anastasia (Royal Ballet) | |
| Best Staging | A Midsummer Night's Dream (NBT) | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Royal New Zealand Ballet | |
| Best Male Dancer | Johan Kobborg (Royal Ballet) | |
| Best Female Dancer | Mara Galeazzi (Royal Ballet) | |
| Best Partnership | Johan Kobborg & Alina Cojocaru (Royal Ballet) | |
| Most Promising Male | Dylan Elmore | |
| Most Promising Female | Pieter Symonds (RNZB/Rambert) | |
| Worst Production | 'White' (Rosemary Butcher) | |
| Special Mention | The rapturous welcome back for Scottish ballet at their opening night in 'Edinburgh';
The sudden emergence of Federico Bonelli as a leading principal when he stepped in on stage for the injured Kobborg. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Scottish Ballet under Ashley Page's Direction; the obvious potential of Johan Kobborg as an artistic director following' Out of Denmark'; the rise of Federico Bonelli and Thiago Soares at the RB; the quality of ballet in New Zealand; Chris Hampson's 'R & J' ; Russell Maliphant for 'Broken Fall'; Cathy Marston for 'Before the Tempest...' ; Darshan Singh Bhuller for 'Source 2'; Kim Brandstrup for 'Afsked' and Richard Alston for 'Shimmer' - all brilliant new dance works. | |
Submitted by: | Graham Watts | |
| Date | September 21, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | cats |
| Best New Production | fame | |
| Best Revival | cats | |
| Best Staging | lionking | |
| Best Home Company | - | |
| Best Visiting Company | alidin | |
| Best Male Dancer | omar mumber | |
| Best Female Dancer | alexia | |
| Best Partnership | - | |
| Most Promising Male | omar | |
| Most Promising Female | alexia | |
| Worst Production | alidin | |
| Special Mention | i loved the dancing and singing in cats that what made it my favorit production to watch.and some day i hope that they redo cats because i would love to play a part in it
the lion king there costumes are brilient and so amazing the production is just like the film and the props are way cool i didnt know what or how they made them but they are good | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | | |
| Date | September 20, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Mayerling |
| Best New Production | Qualia | |
| Best Revival | Anastasia | |
| Best Staging | Daphnis and Chloe | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet - who else?? | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Edward Watson | |
| Best Female Dancer | Alina Cojocaru | |
| Best Partnership | Cope/Rojo in Mayerling Kobborg/Cojocaru close second | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | Bolshoi Romeo and Juliet - yuk!!! | |
| Special Mention | Brilliant Martin Harvey and Alina in that Masterclass learning Rudolf in Mayerling was astonishing - she was so helpful and he was so willing to put himself really on the line in front of all those people - tremendous stuff - good to see donald mccleary coaching still | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Ed and Lauren in Romeo - they were brilliant and the house was so enthusistic after their performances PLEASE may we see more in the future? | |
Submitted by: | julia jones | |
| Date | September 20, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | RB's Romeo and Juliet |
| Best New Production | ||
| Best Revival | ||
| Best Staging | ||
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Nederlands Dance Theatre 2 | |
| Best Male Dancer | Carlos Acosta | |
| Best Female Dancer | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Best Partnership | Cuthbertson/Watson (in R&J) | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | ||
| Worst Production | Quadruple Bill (excluding Les Noces) | |
| Special Mention | Matthew Bourne's "Play without Words". | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Ivan Putrov's dancing of Lnesky's solo before the duel scene in "Onegin". I never thought anything could match the beauty of the tenor aria at this point in the opera - but he did. | |
Submitted by: | Ian Graham | |
| Date | September 20, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | |
| Best New Production | ||
| Best Revival | ||
| Best Staging | ||
| Best Home Company | ||
| Best Visiting Company | ||
| Best Male Dancer | ||
| Best Female Dancer | ||
| Best Partnership | ||
| Most Promising Male | ||
| Most Promising Female | I meant of course, Lauren Cuthbertson! | |
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | ||
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | Fiz | |
| Date | September 20, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Mayerling |
| Best New Production | N/A | |
| Best Revival | Mayerling | |
| Best Staging | Onegin | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet, of course! | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Ivan Putrov? | |
| Best Female Dancer | Alina Cojacaru | |
| Best Partnership | Alina Cojarcaru./Johann Kobberg | |
| Most Promising Male | Edward Watson | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Elder | |
| Worst Production | N/A | |
| Special Mention | When Federico Bonelli had to take over from Johann Kobberg - I think he and Alina Cojacaru pulled out all the stops after what must have been a very difficult changeover, in 'Sleeping Beauty'. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | The nature of ballet, due to Mayerling - never seen it before and it was a terrifying psychological drama which indeed the actual event was, but to see it all danced - I would not have believed that ballet could translate it so well. I went home cold and emotionally drained. | |
Submitted by: | Fiz | |
| Date | September 20, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | RB Mayerling |
| Best New Production | ||
| Best Revival | ||
| Best Staging | Mayerling | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Carlos Acosta | |
| Best Female Dancer | Miyako Yoshida | |
| Best Partnership | Rojo/Cope in Mayerling | |
| Most Promising Male | Edward Watson | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | Zenaida Yanowski's Empress Elizabeth in Mayerling (and her Siren in Prodigal Son). Ran Miyako very close for my fave female dancer.
Symphony in C - I was completely new to it, and just when I thought it couldn't get any better - it did! The 4th Movement is an unabashed joy!
Les Noces in Covent Garden - didn't get it at all first time I saw it (was expecting to see more of Zen dancing as the principal lead), but the more I thought about it, by the time I saw it the second time, I was smitten.
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| Eye-opener of the Year | Ed and Lauren's R&J @ Covent Garden, and their Qualia @ The Orchard in Dartford, made me realise you don't have to have the superstars performing to REALLY enjoy a ballet (though have the feeling they may become the next superstars).
Zen's comic turn in A Soldier's Tale. Ballerinas aren't all ice maidens after all!! :¬)
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Submitted by: | DaveM | |
| Date | September 12, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Mayerling |
| Best New Production | Pharaoh's Daughter | |
| Best Revival | Dante Sonata | |
| Best Staging | Swan Lake (ENB) | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Johan Kobborg | |
| Best Female Dancer | Zenaida Yanowsky | |
| Best Partnership | Cojocaru-Kobborg | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | I didn't like NBT Swan Lake very much ... | |
| Special Mention | Daria Pavlenko's lovely arms in La Bayadere, Roberta Marquez's charming Aurora, Jonathan Cope and Tamara Rojo's rivetting performance in Mayerling and Svetlana Zakharova's STUNNING Odile ... | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Ivan Putrov's dramatic depth, Alina Cojocaru's tremendous Tatiana in Onegin Act III- I had my doubts but she blew me away completely, the Bolshoi's Nina Kaptsova- what a lovely dancer whom I had not seen before this summer but she was an absolute joy to watch as Cupid and in the pas de trois | |
Submitted by: | Philippa | |
| Date | September 12, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Broken Fall |
| Best New Production | Broken Fall | |
| Best Revival | Mayerling | |
| Best Staging | KammerKammer | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet, by miles | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Acosta | |
| Best Female Dancer | Yanowsky | |
| Best Partnership | Coj and Kobb | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | Laura Morera | |
| Worst Production | nbt Swan Lake, Tocororo, Beauty and the Beast | |
| Special Mention | Loptakina's Dying Swan transcendently redeeeming the appalling Benois Gala at Sadler's Wells | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Onegin. Has always seemed slightly insipid to me until the amazing summer performance by Morera, Soares, Cojocaru and Putrov .... | |
Submitted by: | michaelt | |
| Date | September 09, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | RB's R&J due to great performances. |
| Best New Production | Nothing to write home about. | |
| Best Revival | Les Patineurs (RBS). | |
| Best Staging | ||
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet. | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi, by default more than anything. | |
| Best Male Dancer | Ivan Putrov. | |
| Best Female Dancer | Zenaida Yanowsky. | |
| Best Partnership | Cojocaru & Kobborg. | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares. | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson, the next great Giselle. | |
| Worst Production | Bolshoi's R&J, although the much-praised RB quadruple bill ran it close. And there was some rubbish in the Benois Gala. And... | |
| Special Mention | September 2003 saw Johan Kobborg's wonderful Out of Denmark show in London. The highlight being the extraordinary performances of Fleming Flindt's The Lesson, a perfect cast (Kobborg, Cojocaru and Yanowsky) in a remarkable ballet. Now that really was a raw sensory experience, no hype necessary.
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| Eye-opener of the Year | Remarkable R&J's from Watson & Cuthbertson. I wasn't sure he had it in him - I was wrong. Putrov and Marquez in Giselle finally showed a physical and sexy side of the story, and in fact Putrov shone all year - he is now the real deal in terms of acting and stage presence. And he still has entrechats to make your jaw hit the ground. The best combination of Russian and English techniques around. | |
Submitted by: | PhilipB | |
| Date | September 07, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | 'ma' Akram Khan company. Edin Playhouse |
| Best New Production | Christopher Wheeldon's 'Mesmerics' for G | |
| Best Revival | Tudor's 'Dark Elegies'. Edin Playhouse | |
| Best Staging | 'ma' | |
| Best Home Company | won't comment as havn't seen RB at all this year | |
| Best Visiting Company | NDT 2 | |
| Best Male Dancer | Akram Khan | |
| Best Female Dancer | Patricia Hines for SBs '5 Ruckert Songs' | |
| Best Partnership | N/A | |
| Most Promising Male | Jose Perez | |
| Most Promising Female | ||
| Worst Production | SB's 'Nutcracker'. Didn't care much for this new production. May however decide to see it again this year if Paul Liburd gets to dance the Nut! | |
| Special Mention | Saddest performance: Rambert's Triple bill 'Mahler' with the RSNO at the Playhouse. I last saw 'Dark Elegies' revived sometime after the Dumblane massacre. The coincidental timing this time with events in Ossetia made it almost too much to bear. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Has to be the Lazarus-like recovery of Scottish Ballet. Looking great in everything so far (despite my comments re Nutcracker). Previous AD made the mistake of making his own stuff too big a proportion of the total (rather small) repertory. Hope the current AD won't do the same. | |
Submitted by: | Carly Gillies | |
| Date | September 06, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Tocororo - A Cuban Tale |
| Best New Production | Cinderella | |
| Best Revival | La Bayadere | |
| Best Staging | Agon/Prodigal Son/Symphony in C | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Carlos Acosta & the Company of Tocororo | |
| Best Male Dancer | Carlos Acosta | |
| Best Female Dancer | Tamara Rojo | |
| Best Partnership | Carlos Acosta/Tamara Rojo | |
| Most Promising Male | Edward Watson | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | Tango Por Dos | |
| Special Mention | Donald Macleary's coaching of RB dancers Alina Cojocaru and Martin Harvey (Johann was injured) in a Mayerling Masterclass. Donald let's the dancers complete a whole section before going over everything with them and correcting them, so that when they try again you can really see the improvements - and they were already exceptional !
Also, Jose Martin rehearsing as The Jester in a Cinderella Masterclass with Wendy Ellis-Soames coaching - his technique was eye-watering ! | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Svetlana Zacharova dancing Swan Lake - I had heard such great things but the reality - including those thirty-two immaculate fouttes - was astounding. A real Summer treat. | |
Submitted by: | Elise | |
| Date | September 05, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | RB Cranko Onegin |
| Best New Production | ||
| Best Revival | La Scala Bejart Rite of Spring | |
| Best Staging | POB La Sylphide | |
| Best Home Company | ||
| Best Visiting Company | Cunningham | |
| Best Male Dancer | Filin | |
| Best Female Dancer | Guillem | |
| Best Partnership | ||
| Most Promising Male | Riccardo Ceveras | |
| Most Promising Female | ||
| Worst Production | Symphony in C/Ananiashvilli and Friends | |
| Special Mention | Zakharova's stunning shapes
Yoshida's exhileratingly articulate feet
Acosta in the fabulously camp lavendar outfit as the spirit of rose | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Performances of Ballet Music:
RB has so much repertoire involving difficult (and sublime) piano parts. They ought to hire someone who can play this music properly... It makes such a difference. Hope someone will mention this to SG when she does M&A next year. Also, how wonderful would it be if we could have a real pianist for Rhapsody and Symphonic Variations!!!
POB =desperately= needs a better orchestra. The ROH Orchestra has been a star most of the season this year--which was most definitely not the case 10 years ago when they played in the new RB Bayadere DVD with AA and IM. | |
Submitted by: | CS | |
| Date | September 02, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Romeo and Juliet, Royal Ballet |
| Best New Production | Broken Fall, Royal Ballet | |
| Best Revival | Mayerling, Royal Ballet | |
| Best Staging | Kammer Kammer, Ballett Frankfurt, London, October '03 | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Carlos Acosta | |
| Best Female Dancer | Svetlana Zakharova | |
| Best Partnership | Alina Cojocaru & Johan Kobborg | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | I can't do it. They're all wonderful. | |
| Worst Production | Bolshoi's Swan Lake. Leave it alone, please! | |
| Special Mention | Henri Oguike Dance – a small company with excellent material (both dancers and dances) and live music (which makes such a difference). | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Martha Graham company, London, November '03. I'd only ever seen bits of the archival footage on television. These performances made me see why she is so important. And she did have a sense of humour. | |
Submitted by: | JohnM | |
| Date | September 02, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Mayerling (RB) |
| Best New Production | The Pharaoh's Daughter (Bolshoi) | |
| Best Revival | Les Noces (RB) | |
| Best Staging | Midsummer Night's Dream (NBT) | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Johan Kobborg | |
| Best Female Dancer | Tamara Rojo | |
| Best Partnership | Kobborg-Cojocaru | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares (my favourite Onegin!) | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | ||
| Special Mention | Zenaida Yanowsky who was brilliant in everything she was given to do (admittedly too little this season!) but especially in Afsked, as Gamzatti and in Agon. RB corps in Giselle and Les Noces. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Ivan Putrov's moving performance as the Prodigal Son | |
Submitted by: | Martha | |
| Date | September 02, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | RB Romeo&Juliet |
| Best New Production | Cinderella | |
| Best Revival | RB GIselle | |
| Best Staging | RB R&J | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Carlos Acosta | |
| Best Female Dancer | Tamara Rojo | |
| Best Partnership | Between Kobborg& Cojocaru, and Lauren Cuthbertson & Edward Watson. | |
| Most Promising Male | Edward Watson | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | Bolshoi Swan Lake (mostly the anti-climatic ending) | |
| Special Mention | Ed Watson and Lauren Cuthbertson in RB R&J... 1st time i've been left in tears at the end of any ballet, the story seemed so fresh and powerful with renewed insight into the characters emotions, down to two amazing performances (which managed to get me hooked on ballet all over again).
Seeing Tamara Rojo in R&J, showing how mcuh drama can play a part in dance.
ENB Swan Lake, not just for the spectacle but for the sheer quality of dancing by Edur&Oaks.
Bruce Sanson's 'Evening in British Ballet', new works i loved, and my first Ballet open-air performance! | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Deidre Chapman, in everything i saw her in i was very impressed.
The ability of RB dancers to pick up a totally new role, learn it in a really short space of time, and then give an astounding performance.
Hoe much the RB tickets are, and how much the cost adds up after a while (just ask my Dad about that one) | |
Submitted by: | Emily Benn | |
| Date | September 01, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | NBT's A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Best New Production | The Pharaoh's Daughter (Bolshoi) | |
| Best Revival | BRB's Dante Sonata | |
| Best Staging | Clavigo (POB) | |
| Best Home Company | B'ham Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Emmanuel Thibault (POB) | |
| Best Female Dancer | Maria Alexandrova (Bolshoi) | |
| Best Partnership | Claire-Marie Osta and Nicholas Le Riche (POB) | |
| Most Promising Male | ||
| Most Promising Female | Oksana Tsareva (Bolshoi) & Pieter Symonds (RNZB) | |
| Worst Production | Romeo & Juliet (RB) | |
| Special Mention | Special mention should be made of the way the Paris Opera Ballet appears to be jettisoning it's classical past in favour of purely contemporary works. The huge corps de ballet will be virtually redundant next season and there is great disquiet among the ranks as to the company's future. A change of policy and/or leadership is urgently needed. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | Mary | |
| Date | September 01, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | RB Romeo & Juliet |
| Best New Production | RNZB Romeo & Juliet | |
| Best Revival | Anastasia | |
| Best Staging | NBT Midsummer Nights Dream | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Edward Watson | |
| Best Female Dancer | Zenaida Yanowsky | |
| Best Partnership | Edward Watson & Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | Batsheva Dance Company | |
| Special Mention | Loved Arthur Pita's work 'Camp'
at The Place in June 04
Loved Bruce Sansom's Evening of British Ballet | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Wayne McGregor's Ataxia....esp Leo Lerus. Want to see more of Wayne's work in the future. | |
Submitted by: | Mandy Kent | |
| Date | September 01, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Mayerling |
| Best New Production | Broken Fall | |
| Best Revival | Onegin (see below) | |
| Best Staging | The return of the Craxton designed Daphnis and Chloe | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | RNZB | |
| Best Male Dancer | Jonathan Cope | |
| Best Female Dancer | Sylvie Guillem (NOT for R&J though) | |
| Best Partnership | Cope/Rojo | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | Cinderella (I can't help thinking Ashton would be turning in his grave at the thought of Dowell and Sleep cavorting around as the Uglies) | |
| Special Mention | (1) Irek Mukhamedov for his phenomenal performance of Rudolf, and the carpet of flowers that greeted his curtain calls.
(2) Edward Watson in the second of his performances of 'Romeo and Juliet', (an all too brief display of one of the best talents the RB has - please when will we see more??!!)
(3) Antonion Pappano conducting the Four Temperaments etc. Never have I heard a ballet orchestra so good, and there was a wonderful sensation of total unity between stage an pit. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | The fact that in spite of myriad injuries at the end of the season, the RB was able to unravel a series of lower-ranked, yet amazing talents, for Onegin. All of whom, I believe, learnt their roles in a matter of a week or two. | |
Submitted by: | Ian Palmer | |
| Date | September 01, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Mayerling - Royal Ballet |
| Best New Production | Pharoh's Daughter - Bolshoi | |
| Best Revival | Wind in the Willows - Linbury | |
| Best Staging | An Evening of British Ballet - Dartford | |
| Best Home Company | The Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | The Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Johan Kobborg | |
| Best Female Dancer | Miyako Yoshida | |
| Best Partnership | Miyako Yoshida and Federico Bonelli, Tamara Rojo and Jonathan Cope | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | Roberta Marquez | |
| Worst Production | Swan Lake - the Bolshoi | |
| Special Mention | The snake in 'The Pharoh's Daughter' - what a hoot!
Jonathan Cope and Tamara Rojo in Mayerling. Great to see Irek back in 'Mayering as well.
Galina Stepanenko and Yuri Klevstov in the Bolshoi's Don Q. It was great fun.
Great to see Leanne Benjamin back too. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | Rachel | |
| Date | September 01, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Don Quixote - Bolshoi Ballet |
| Best New Production | Pharaoh's Daughter - Bolshoi Ballet | |
| Best Revival | La Bayadere - Royal Ballet | |
| Best Staging | Qualia - Royal Ballet | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi Ballet | |
| Best Male Dancer | Ivan Putrov | |
| Best Female Dancer | Sylvie Guillem - see below! | |
| Best Partnership | Cojucaru/Kobborg | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares - for Onegin! | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | Swan Lake - Bolshoi Ballet | |
| Special Mention | Bruce Sansom - for putting together the marvellous 'Evening of British Ballet' - a fantastic evening (Voices of Spring and the Qualia pdd are two performances that I will never forget). I even managed to convert a few of my friends to ballet! His diary on ballet.co was also very interesting and eye-opening (this nearly went into the next category for that reason!) | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Broken Fall - I had never imagined that such things were possible, and it was also my first viewing of the (unbelievably strong) Ballet Boyz. Never before I have experienced so may emotions at the same time - exhilarating and spine-tingling. I have the utmost admiration for the dancers as it is clearly really quite dangerous! | |
Submitted by: | Charlie Wise | |
| Date | September 01, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Onegin |
| Best New Production | Cinderella | |
| Best Revival | Simphony in C | |
| Best Staging | Anastasia | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Johan Kobborg | |
| Best Female Dancer | Mara Galeazzi | |
| Best Partnership | Kobborg - Cojocaru | |
| Most Promising Male | Thiago Soares | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthberson | |
| Worst Production | Diaghilev Gala | |
| Special Mention | ||
| Eye-opener of the Year | ||
Submitted by: | Mauro Beretta | |
| Date | September 01, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | giselle |
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| Best Home Company | royal ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | kirov | |
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| Best Female Dancer | darcey bussel | |
| Best Partnership | cojacaru, kobborg | |
| Most Promising Male | jonathan watkins | |
| Most Promising Female | lauren cithbetson | |
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| Eye-opener of the Year | jonathan watkins | |
Submitted by: | sarah | |
| Date | September 01, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | "La Sonnambula" by George Balanchine |
| Best New Production | "Nijinsky" by John Neumeier | |
| Best Revival | Boston Ballet's "Don Quixote" by Nureyev | |
| Best Staging | Rosas's "Rain" by Anna Teresa de Keersmaker | |
| Best Home Company | New York City Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Hamburg Ballet and Frankfurt Ballet | |
| Best Male Dancer | Manuel Legris | |
| Best Female Dancer | Alina Cojocaru and Sofiane Sylve | |
| Best Partnership | Manuel Legris and Aurelie Dupont, Silvia Azzoni and Alexander Riabko (Hamburg Ballet principals) | |
| Most Promising Male | Herve Moreau and Mallory Gaudion of POB, Herman Cornejo of ABT | |
| Most Promising Female | Dorothee Gilbert of POB, Ashley Bouder of NYCB, Shoko Nakamura of Vienna State Opera Ballet, Yao Wei of the Royal Danish Ballet | |
| Worst Production | ABT's Swan Lake by Kevin McKenzie | |
| Special Mention | When Cojocaru first guested with ABT in La Bayadere in their summer season of 2003, I had found THE classical ballerina I was looking for. She was definitely the biggest highlight of the 2003-2004 season. And why is Manuel Legris so divine? He gets BETTER and BETTER as he gets older! I find him even more polished than he was 3 years ago. His partnership with Aurelie Dupont this summer in Japan was particularly memorable. There's been a lot of hype building up around Mathieu Ganio, but I must say that I think he was promoted way too early; he certainly didn't live up to my etoile expectations. And finally, Ashley "LA" Bouder is probably one of the youngest, brightest Balanchine ballerinas to be coming out in the recent years. I can't find any up&coming ballerina who matches her talent/skill in NYCB AND ABT combined. Finally, I hope Forsyth will continue to produce more works for some of the major classical companies, more works like "Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude" wouldn't hurt. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Many NYCB balletomanes seem to have a hard time with Peter Martin's works, and I am not particularly fond of them either, but Octet, his new work for the Royal Danish Ballet, was actually pretty nicely done, and Yao Wei, a corps member, particularly caught my eyes. She's a dancer to look forward to. Oh and lastly, we don't get to watch too much of Vienna State Opera Ballet, but Shoko Nakamura, a soloist dancer over there, is probably the next Yoshida. Their styles are different, but I think this girl has the talent to conquer the world. | |
Submitted by: | Terry | |
| Date | September 01, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | NBT Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Best New Production | Pharaoh's Daughter | |
| Best Revival | Mayerling | |
| Best Staging | RNZB Romeo & Juliet | |
| Best Home Company | Royal Ballet | |
| Best Visiting Company | Bolshoi | |
| Best Male Dancer | Sergei Filin | |
| Best Female Dancer | Zenaida Yanowsky | |
| Best Partnership | Rojo/Cope | |
| Most Promising Male | Ludovic Ondiviela | |
| Most Promising Female | Deirdre Chapman | |
| Worst Production | Moscow Ballet La Classique Coppelia | |
| Special Mention | Some really enjoyable Royal Ballet mixed bills at last, after such disappointing ones from the previous couple of seasons. | |
| Eye-opener of the Year | Ivan Putrov coming into his own in such diverse roles as Le Spectre de la Rose and Prodigal Son. Eye-opening indeed! | |
Submitted by: | Anne Marriott | |
| Date | August 31, 2004 | |
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Best Production Overall | Mayerling (RB) |
| Best New Production | Pharaoh's Daughter (Bolshoi) | |
| Best Revival | BRB's Elite Syncopations | |
| Best Staging | I love the RB's Giselle, although I couldn't get to see it this time round | |
| Best Home Company | It pains me to say the RB, because if it was up to them i would never see them | |
| Best Visiting Company | Nederlans Dans Theater II | |
| Best Male Dancer | Cope (Kobbprg comes very close) | |
| Best Female Dancer | Rojo | |
| Best Partnership | Rojo/Cope (Cojocaru and Kobborg come very close) | |
| Most Promising Male | Johannes Stepanek | |
| Most Promising Female | Lauren Cuthbertson | |
| Worst Production | Anastasia | |
| Special Mention | Lei Zhao of the BRB was lovely in Allegri Diversi on the mini tour in Durham. Cojocaru's amazingly fast turns off the stage in Act II of the RB's Bayadere! The RB corps showing what they can do in les Noces. Acsosta in Spectre...he may not have been suited to the role, but he can really jump! All the swans in ENB's swan Lake...er...have I said too many? | |