Old favourites, new challenges: Russian Ballet Icons Gala
A tribute to Diaghilev that looked backward, showcased the contemporary and offered something new
Swan Lake
Yuri Grigorovich, master Russian choreographer, reaches his 90th birthday
As he celebrates his 90th birthday on January 2nd, Charlotte Kasner looks at the colossus of Russian choreographers that is Yuri Grigorovich, his times and his work. Yuri Nikolayevich Grigorovich was born in 1927 in Leningrad, ten years after the October revolution that swept imperialism away and just three years after the death of Lenin … Read more
As he celebrates his 90th birthday, three Yuri Grigorovich classic ballet productions come to the big screen
As Charlotte Kasner points out in her in-depth look at Yuri Grigorovich, if there is one choreographer who dominated Russian ballet during the second half of the 20th-century it is surely Yuri Grigorovich, who on January 2nd, 2017, celebrates his 90th birthday, an occasion being marked by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow with a season … Read more
Hard-hitting contemporary themes dominate Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Swan Lake (Loch na hEala)
Poetry, beauty, mystery and folklore; political and moral corruption, religious superstition and abuse
Humanising Odette: Jurgita Dronina in Hong Kong Ballet’s Swan Lake
The fullness of her courage is moving because it feels true
A revisionist Swan Lake for our times
The Australian Ballet makes a welcome return to the London Coliseum
An outpouring of poetry: David Dawson’s Swan Lake
Sophie Martin is a magical creature with a body that folds and wraps like silk while throbbing with power and strength
Ekaterina Kondaurova’s Odette/Odile: A marvel of emotion
Joy Wang X.Y. on the Mariinsky Ballet in Tokyo