WEEKEND VIEWING: NATALIA OSIPOVA IN DON Q
June 11, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
So, if you missed THE performance of the season last week at ABT (that’s Natalia Osipova’s American debut as Kitri in Don Quixote, with legendary Jose Carreno as her partner), here are some vids I found of her dancing the role at the Bolshoi.
There are actually a couple of videos posted on YouTube that are of the exact performance I’m talking about at ABT, but I know ABT didn’t approve them so I feel weird embedding them here. Click on this link (but fast forward to around the 2:57 mark, when it really starts) and this one to view them ...
WEEKEND VIEWING: NATALIA OSIPOVA IN DON Q
June 11, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
So, if you missed THE performance of the season last week at ABT (that’s Natalia Osipova’s American debut as Kitri in Don Quixote, with legendary Jose Carreno as her partner), here are some vids I found of her dancing the role at the Bolshoi.
There are actually a couple of videos posted on YouTube that are of the exact performance I’m talking about at ABT, but I know ABT didn’t approve them so I feel weird embedding them here. Click on this link (but fast forward to around the 2:57 mark, when it really starts) and this one to view them ...
ALICIA ALONSO 90TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT ABT
June 4, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
Last night was a very special night at ABT; the company put on a special show in honor of Alicia Alonso, the former ABT ballerina from Cuba who’s credited with bringing ballet to Latin America and bringing Latin American stars to the world, who turned 90 years old this year.
The evening began with a short film including interviews with Alonso reflecting on her career and clips of her dancing. The most amazing such clip was at the end of her dancing, I think La Sylphide, and she was doing tiny but incredibly, insanely fast-footed passees back and forth and back ...
ALICIA ALONSO 90TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT ABT
June 4, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
Last night was a very special night at ABT; the company put on a special show in honor of Alicia Alonso, the former ABT ballerina from Cuba who’s credited with bringing ballet to Latin America and bringing Latin American stars to the world, who turned 90 years old this year.
The evening began with a short film including interviews with Alonso reflecting on her career and clips of her dancing. The most amazing such clip was at the end of her dancing, I think La Sylphide, and she was doing tiny but incredibly, insanely fast-footed passees back and forth and back ...
The Nacho Project: Diagnosis
May 24, 2010 · Posted by You Dance Funny, So Does Me ·
One of my ducklings (number five in the row, if I recall correctly) is headed to New York this summer and is in need of your help! “Nacho,” as I call her, has never been there before and will be doing some kind of an internship this summer but more importantly, will have access to the splendiferous wonder that is NYCB and ABT. Not only will this be her first time in Manhattan, she has yet to see such prestigious ballet companies (she has seen smaller dance performances before though). Needless to say this is a crucial moment in her ...
Dancer Spotlight: Lauren Ciobanu
April 9, 2010 · Posted by En Pointe with Houston Ballet ·
Guest writer: Melissa Seuffert
Corps de ballet member Lauren Ciobanu, a Los Gatos, California native, joined Houston Ballet this season. Ms. Ciobanu trained at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. and moved up the ranks to principal dancer at Sarasota Ballet before relocating to Houston. Here she tells us a little more about herself:
What age did you start dancing?
3
Did you always love ballet?
Yes
When did you know you wanted to be a professional dancer?
Always, even as a small child I knew this was my path.
What is your favorite part about being on stage?
The euphoria you feel out there, and the ...
KINGS OF THE DANCE SHOWS HOW DANCER-RICH BUT CHOREOGRAPHY-IMPOVERISHED BALLET IS IN THE BALANCHINE-INUNDATED U.S.
February 21, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
Photo of Desmond Richardson by Andrea Mohin, taken from NYTimes.
So, “Kings of the Dance” made the New York stop of its international tour this weekend at City Center. I was there Friday night. The last time this show toured here several years ago (it is produced by Russian dance promoter Sergei Danilian) there were only four male dancers — Angel Corella, Ethan Stiefel (both of American Ballet Theater), Johan Kobborg of the Royal Ballet in England, and Nikolay Tsiskaridze of the Bolshoi. This year, there were many more dancers and Tsiskaridze was the only one who returned (and, funny, but ...
KINGS OF THE DANCE SHOWS HOW DANCER-RICH BUT CHOREOGRAPHY-IMPOVERISHED BALLET IS IN THE BALANCHINE-INUNDATED U.S.
February 21, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
Photo of Desmond Richardson by Andrea Mohin, taken from NYTimes.
So, “Kings of the Dance” made the New York stop of its international tour this weekend at City Center. I was there Friday night. The last time this show toured here several years ago (it is produced by Russian dance promoter Sergei Danilian) there were only four male dancers — Angel Corella, Ethan Stiefel (both of American Ballet Theater), Johan Kobborg of the Royal Ballet in England, and Nikolay Tsiskaridze of the Bolshoi. This year, there were many more dancers and Tsiskaridze was the only one who returned (and, funny, but ...
Born to be NOT wild
February 19, 2010 · Posted by You Dance Funny, So Does Me ·
How are you, world? Good? I don’t know about you, but it has been a long winter (for those of us in the northern hemisphere). Spring is finally showing signs of life with the slightest rise in temperatures and more sun these days. So right now I’m feeling like people could use a little encouragement, which I often find from one of my idols, Coach Valorie Kondos-Field (aka “Miss Val”) the head coach of UCLA’s women’s gymnastics programs. I admire her for many reasons, including the fact that she was a professional dancer and yet she finds herself in a ...
ROBERT FAIRCHILD DEBUTS IN FANCY FREE (BUT TILER PECK GLOWS!)
January 19, 2010 · Posted by Swan Lake Samba Girl ·
Over the weekend, SLSG favorite Robert Fairchild had his debut in Robbins’ Fancy Free at New York City Ballet. This is one of my favorite short ballets: three sailors on shore-leave try to pick up women in a bar, but, there being only two women, they kind of get into a little competition, dance-off-style of course. Fairchild danced the role of the Latin guy, Tyler Angle the more head-in-the-clouds romantic one, and Daniel Ulbricht, the short Swing-y one with all the toe-to-finger splits jumps off the bar. The first woman was Georgina Pazcoguin and the one in purple who for ...
