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Ballet.co Magazine
January 2006
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Interviews, Diaries and weblogs, Features, In the Galleries, Reviews, Postings Reviews, External Reviews, Photographic Copyright and Credits
Sir Frederick Ashton on the Web
Ballet.co is pleased to announce the launch of the online edition of Following Sir Fred’s Steps, edited by Stephanie Jordan and Andrée Grau, the proceedings of the conference held at Roehampton University in November 1994, during which Frederick Ashton’s closest associates joined with dancers, scholars and critics in an assessment and celebration of the choreographer’s legacy. (press release)
'Following Sir Fred's Steps'
DVD Review
Ashton to Stravinsky...
Susan Crow, the former Salder's Wells dancer, reviews a very hard to get DVD that disects just what Ashton was up to in four Stravinsky works...
Interviews
Evgenia Obraztsova
Kevin Ng has a chat with the Kirov’s much talked of Soloist
Yulia Bolshakova
The Kirov’s New Swan Princess interviewed in depth by Natasha Dissanayake
Diaries and weblogs
Jessica Wright D.A.N.C.E. Weblog
'Hello From Brussels!'
Welcome to Jessica Wright, a student on the prestigious European D.A.N.C.E. (Dance Apprenticeship Network aCross Europe) programme under the artistic direction of William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Angelin Preljocaj and Frederic Flamand.
(Weblog home)...
Christopher Hampson...
'New Year, New Resolutions'
(Diary home)...
Jatkko Lehmus weblog
the Scottish Ballet dancer who tells it like no other.
'Cinderella: The Ashes of Insanity' and other stories
(weblog home)
Peter Quanz Weblog
on working with RB and ABT...
(weblog home)
Carole Edrich Weblog...
Carole writes about dance and flamenco but it's also all linked in with a passion for extreme sports, risk and general sensation seeking. Carole adds about 2 entries a month. (Weblog home)
Note that some Weblogs are updated in real time and may be added to during the life of the magazine.
Features
Sacre in Kobe
Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer put on 'The Rite of Spring', or 'Le Sacre du Printemps', in Japan last November.
Hans Rinderknecht joined them as rehearsal assistant and dancer - he also recorded for Ballet.co just what happened.
UK National Dance Awards
Graham Watts on who won what at the years annual gathering of the great and good in British dance and ballet
Results of
Ballet.co's Poll of the Year
What turned us all on, and what not...
DVD Review
Kirov Sleeping Beauty...
A clasic 1982 recording reviewed by Ian Palmer
DVD Review
New York City Ballet
Choreography by Balanchine...
reviewed by Philip Bichard
So, You Want to Learn to Dance?
Another in the series from Anjuli Bai:
Order of the Center...
In the Galleries
Currently our Images Gallery contains approximately 1860 images.
John Ross Photographs
Albums added 01/06...
Critics' Circle National Dance Awards 2005 - Royal Opera House, London
London, Royal Opera House, Floral Hall, 01/06
Royal Ballet, Giselle
London, Royal Opera House, 01/06
Reviews
USA Reviews
New York City Ballet
 
'Allegro Brilliante' bill: Eric Taub
"A good ballerina can grab your eye when she's dancing; a great ballerina can do it when she's just standing there. Sofiane Sylve is a great ballerina."
'Klavier': Eric Taub
"More and more Wheeldon's inventiveness seems merely clever, and his undeniable fluency seems wasted in the service of a conception which doesn't rise above trite, pretty navel-gazing. The emotional content is unrelievedly bland and nostalgic; the composition sophisticated, but stifling."
'Swan Lake': Eric Taub
"Martins' Swan Lake substitutes a more vapid story and a dopier conclusion than the "traditional" version (not to mention the dreadful first act, which I just did), there is plenty of high-energy dancing..."
'Swan Lake': Eric Taub
"Back in the day, George Balanchine was fond of saying that if you didn't like what you saw onstage, you could always close your eyes and enjoy the music. Observing the havoc Quinn's happy obliviousness was wreaking upon the dancers and choreography, I remembered Balanchine's famous quip, and wondered if he could've imagined that one day the orchestra itself, rather than the choreography, might be the instrument for making one wish to follow his suggestion."
San Francisco Ballet
'Nutrcracker': Renee Renouf
" Blanc also gave the audience five pirouettes in place ending on a dime, one leg paused in passe, with the ease of one thoroughly at home. That cracked several dozen - hazel, brazil, walnut or pecan - shells for me."
'San Francisco Ballet 73rd Gala': Renee Renouf
"Announcements were made by the co-chairs of the San Francisco Ballet's Board of Trustees. No awards, but a smashing tomato-soup hued strapless with flamenco train on the new co-chair Pamela Joyner; missing was an ole flip with the foot. Joyner did, however, beckon us onward to 2008 and the company's 75th season to feature eight commissioned works."
'Swan Lake': Renee Renouf
"LeBlanc's Odile registered difference through the thrust of her port de bras, the attack in the technique, the all too aware smile a constant. You could imagine her in black palazzo trousers accomplishing her seduction chores pool side, Rosalind Russell turned mafia , a like energy defying physical size. Le Blanc's remarkable consistency only flagged with traveling fouettes, some double."
Bill T Jones
'As I was Saying' bill: Renee Renouf
"{at the end} Almost immediately some stood with others clapping enthusiastically for a warm ovation, not only testimony to superb performers, but to the strength of message and its striking use as theater."
Russian Reviews
Kirov Ballet
'The Legend of Love' bill: Kevin Ng
" DonQ: "But the evening belonged to Irma Nioradze who was at her most radiant and technically dazzling. Her dancing was sharp and incisive. She travelled like a javelin in the Dulcinea's diagonal of 'grands jetes' in the Dryads scene, and she was as light as feather in her 'battements frappes'."
French Reviews
Paris Opera Ballet
'Swan Lake': Naoko S
"Dupont turned out to be the most satisfying Odette I saw in years. ...Her partner Mathieu Ganio, the POB's youngest etoile at the age of 21, can easily be described as a Nature's most plausible ballet Prince."
more reviews in Postings Reviews section
Italian Reviews
Alessandra Ferri and Manuel Legris
'Charlot danses avec nous' bill: Susy
"Alessandra Ferri and Manuel Legris danced two different pdd set in a bedchamber, the first one from Petit's Carmen and the second one from MacMillan's Manon. They were simply fantastic in both."
Swedish Reviews
Swedish Royal Ballet
'Peer Gynt': Preston Palon
"I'm not suggesting that people should travel to Stockholm to see this ballet ..., but, should a suitable opportunity arise, it is well worth seeing, even if you happen to have a more classical taste."
'Peer Gynt': Norman Reynolds
"On both nights the audience response at the end was tremendous."
UK Reviews
Rambert Dance Company
'Rambert Workshop Season': Graham Watts
"This year's offerings all have some endearing qualities but none matched the standard of the previous year. Nevertheless, Rambert's current dancers are – without exception - well worth watching in anything that moves..."
Birmingham Royal Ballet
'Sleeping Beauty': Ian Palmer
"About the dancing I have certain reservations. The production has clearly been rehearsed well..."
'Sleeping Beauty': Janet McNulty
"With six performances under my belt this week, I am going to sound as though I have not got a critical bone in my body when I say that I can’t ever remember having seen six such wonderful performances."
English National Ballet
'Sleeping Beauty': Jeffery Taylor
"MacMillan skilfully highlights the work's twin objectives, an in depth demonstration of the company's classical expertise and a life affirming journey through rites of passage, good's inevitable defeat of evil and the magic of the male/female union."
'Sleeping Beauty': Ian Palmer
"A full house at the matinee suggests that we have taken this production to our hearts - and rightly so. If I had to change one thing it would be to invest some of the money, currently expended in the pumping out of mountains of dry ice, into a the acquisition of a few more lights."
'Sleeping Beauty': Ian Palmer
"Elena Glurdjidze. If we are to see a finer Aurora on the London stage this year then may Carabosse come and prick me with her spindle."
'Sleeping Beauty': Ian Palmer
"With this staging the English National Ballet has most definitely scored a triumph and a triumph which should not under any circumstances be missed."
Scottish Ballet
'Cinderella': Ann Welsh
"The audience mainly consisted of the grey-haired brigade, but also a very large party of young schoolchildren who whooped and hollered as soon as the curtain rose on “that shoe”, but who remained spellbound throughout the whole performance."
William Tuckett
'Pinocchio': John Mallinson
"This is a show that cries out for panto type audience involvement ('LOOK BEHIND YOU...' and so on), but no. The best way to involve the audience is to get them to laugh but, although the script is clever and witty (where audible), much of the wit is adult, little is laugh-inducing."
more reviews in Postings Reviews section
Japan Reviews
K Ballet
'The Nutcracker': Satoko Kamatani
"And more,various brilliant lifts were put into the climax of the grand pas de deux brightly, the audience could have seen that Kumakawa demonstrate his vision with whole of the production itself."
Postings Reviews section
Paris Opera Ballet 'Swan Lake': Azulynn
Royal Ballet 'Giselle': Simonetta Dixon
Royal Ballet 'Giselle': Wulff
Royal Ballet 'Sylvia': Paul N
William Tuckett 'Pinocchio': Robert
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interviews ones too) and put them in our database along with our own
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