A ballerina known for her blistering passion, etched lines, and potent sense of drama, Diana Vishneva recently celebrated 15 years of bringing down houses across the world. The Kirov and American Ballet Theatre principal was feted in a gala evening at the Maryinsky Theater in St. Petersburg in June. Vishneva—ever the daredevil—chose […]
Behind the scenes with today’s hottest ballet star When Diana Vishneva danced the role of Titania in Ashton’s The Dream, for the first time with American Ballet Theatre last summer, she offered a vision of the Fairy Queen that stopped even die-hard Ashtonites in their tracks. A creature of gossamer and steel, her sinuous, […]
The entire audience cheered as they lifted their iPhones to capture the teary-faced Diana Vishneva’s gratitude toward Marcelo Gomes. Last Friday, the great Russian ballerina said goodbye to American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House. Vishneva and Gomes danced a powerful Onegin, and we didn’t want to let them go. During the stream of […]
No matter how many twists and turnabouts Alexei Ratmansky sends her way, Diana Vishneva makes them flow. This is her gift. She’s a warm, charismatic dancer with the texture of plush velvet. And Cinderella is Ratmansky’s gift to her. The Mariinsky Ballet, now resident at Brooklyn Academy of Music, is only giving three performances of […]
Never have I been so in love with the ballet Giselle. Last night Diana Vishneva and Marcelo Gomes were astounding and moving, lifting each other into the stratosphere. I don’t want to compare them with Alina Cojocaru and David Hallberg last weekend (see my previous blog), but seeing both pairs within a few days is […]
Diana Vishneva is such a sublime dancer that you expect to be transported when you see her dance. Her own concert, “Beauty in Motion” at City Center (see our cover story this month) fell short. I guess if you are a choreographer who is commissioned to make a dance for this gorgeous creature, you have […]
Winners of the Dance Magazine Awards, from 1954 to the present
When you hear names like Maria Kochetkova, Sutton Foster and Robbie Fairchild, you immediately picture flashes of them as the fully-formed, phenomenal performers they are today. But even when they were kids, they had a glimmer of their future star power, giving a glimpse of what was to come. Thankfully for Instagram, we’ve got the […]
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