The United States map hanging in Ginger Montel’s office has color-coded pushpins scattered across the country. Each one indicates where a dance company has a Twyla Tharp piece in its active repertoire, with the different colors representing the number of works. Lately she has been adding them to the map at a rapid pace. […]
To fly into Tbilisi, Georgia, you must land in pitch dark in the middle of the night. (Night air space is cheaper.) Even so, the crowd welcoming passengers boils up outside the airport’s glass walls—waving, gesticulating, soundlessly shouting. When you launch yourself into the town the next morning, your taxi and the other cars speed […]
Alexei Ratmansky’s two-year reign as artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet has kindled an invigorating spirit in his company, as Londoners quickly discovered. After enjoying his jolly and droll Bright Stream earlier in the tour, audiences here were treated to Ratmansky’s tribute to Maya Plisetskaya, premiered last November. Go for Broke is pure dance—and pure […]
Bolshoi Ballet Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington, DC February 21-25, 2007 Reviewed by George Jackson Pictured: Svetlana Zakharova Photographer: Carol Pratt Courtesy: Kennedy Center Moderation isn’t a policy ordinarily practiced by the ballet company whose name means big, yet the Bolshoi’s new (2006) Cinderella is downright temperate. Everything about it seems carefully balanced, be it […]
Bolshoi Ballet Royal Opera House, London August 14, 2006 Reviewed by Margaret Willis The Bolshoi Ballet in Go for Broke by Alexei Ratmansky Photo by Damir Yusupov, courtesy Bolshoi Ballet Alexei Ratmansky’s two-year reign as artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet has kindled an invigorating spirit in his company, as Londoners quickly discovered. After […]
Bolshoi Ballet Royal Opera House, London August 14, 2006 Reviewed by Margaret Willis The Bolshoi Ballet in Go for Broke by Alexei Ratmansky Photo by Damir Yusupov, courtesy Bolshoi Ballet Alexei Ratmansky’s two-year reign as artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet has kindled an invigorating spirit in his company, as Londoners quickly discovered. After enjoying […]
Bolshoi Ballet State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia May 15–16, 2005 Reviewed by Clive Barnes Just as Balanchine, born and trained in St. Petersburg, is a son of the Maryinsky Ballet, so Massine, born and trained in Moscow, is a son of the Bolshoi. Of course, Massine is hardly the touchstone of the Bolshoi […]
Maryinsky International Ballet Festival Maryinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia March 9?18, 2002, Reviewed by Kevin Ng For ten days in March, St. Petersburg was the center of the ballet world, as the Kirov Ballet hosted the Maryinsky International Ballet Festival for the second consecutive year. The Kirov’s large and diverse repertory comprised a good portion […]