It was a brief YouTube clip of her Kitri that set balletomanes abuzz. From the first moment that Bolshoi starlet Natalia Osipova was spotted in a short solo from Don Quixote, the link flew from computer to computer around the world. Her performance commanded the stage with sparkling personality and breathtaking technique. Tossing off multiple […]
The Royal’s Alina Cojocaru Instead of getting the dog she dreamed of for Christmas, Alina Cojocaru received a bonsai tree from her boyfriend and partner, Johan Kobborg. Like the bonsai, Cojocaru is petite, but her unique talents have led her to grow in artistic stature to great heights. Her rise to fame is the stuff […]
Human institutions, from nations to businesses, never remain the same. Seen from the perspective of history, they are either on the way up or on the way down. Britain’s 75-year-old Royal Ballet is no exception. From its founding in 1931 by Ninette de Valois, it was moving up and up, despite a few doubts during […]
In this version, Prince Siegfried falls in love with Odette at night, when she is still a maiden, and he witnesses her dawn transformation into a swan at the hands of the vengeful Rothbart. (Much use is made of his billowing cape.) As a girl, Odette wears a long, white gown, and the flowing partnering […]
Dancers wearing thrift-store chic gyrated to pop hits in French choreographer Jerome Bel’s The show must go on, at the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Laurent Philippe The Royal Ballet Royal Opera House, Covent Garden London, United Kingdom May 21?29, 2003 Reviewed by Allan Ulrich The Royal Ballet advertised David Bintley?s Les Saisons as the company?s […]
The Royal Ballet Royal Opera House, Covent Garden London, United Kingdom May 21?29, 2003 Reviewed by Allan Ulrich The Royal Ballet advertised David Bintley?s Les Saisons as the company?s contemporary creation of the 2002?03 season, but “contemporary” stretched the point a bit; the most forward-looking of England?s leading classicists has spurned the steamy narratives he […]
The Royal Ballet finally danced John Cranko’s Onegin. Simon Magill, courtesy Royal Opera House Press Office Royal Ballet Royal Opera House, Covent Garden November 22, 2001 Reviewed by Margaret Willis John Cranko’s powerful masterpiece Onegin, based on the verse-novel by Russia’s greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin, has finally taken its rightful place in the Royal […]
Carlos Acosta, seated, and Nigel Buffey in The Royal Ballet’s Shadowplay. Photo by Bill Cooper Royal Ballet: Triple Bill Royal Opera House, Covent Garden London, England, U.K. October 31, 2000 Reviewed by Margaret Willis This is Sir Anthony Dowell?s final season as artistic director of The Royal Ballet, and the repertoire this year includes works […]
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