Hamlet with incidental swans: The Bolshoi Ballet’s Swan Lake in cinema
Svetlana Zakharova is an astonishing Odette/Odile. She is simply exquisite as Odette.
DVDs, Films, Online Streamings, Books, Exhibitions
DVD – Relève: Histoire d’une création
A look at the film that charts the creation of Benjamin Millepied’s first ballet as Director of the Paris Opera Ballet
Bolshoi Ballet Cinema Season: The Nutcracker
Grigorovich’s The Nutcracker reminds us of just how great his interpretations of the classics are.
Bolshoi Confidential: secrets of the Russian ballet from the rule of the tsars to today
Most disappointing is that Morrison doesn’t actually reveal anything confidential
Dancer Wellness
David Mead looks at Dancer Wellness, a new book edited by Mary Virginia Wilmerding and Donna Krasnow that helps dancers learn and apply important wellness concepts, and in doing so get more out of the dance experience. It is undoubtedly true that today’s dancers, at whatever level, are more knowledgeable and more inquisitive about how … Read more
Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement
His figures are undeniably human and capture the essence of dance by distorting and inflating it
Just getting on with it: Sir Peter Wright’s life in dance
Wrights and Wrongs: My Life in Dance – Peter Wright with Paul Arrowsmith
Shakespeare’s tempestuous love story
The Bolshoi Ballet in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s The Taming of the Shrew
Casse Noisette Compagnie
Charlotte Kasner takes in Les Ballets de Monte Carlo’s live screening in London