Balanchine
Serenade & Giselle, Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Opera HouseMonday, 26 July 2010We’re getting used to expecting the extraordinary from Natalia Osipova - and then getting some more. With her impish face and farouche capriciousness, with a spring like a high-jumper and shoulders like a swimmer, she is without doubt the most... Read more... |
Suzanne Farrell and George Balanchine: A passionate love letter re-openedSaturday, 22 July 2006"It was more than just 'I love you'," Suzanne Farrell, America's nonpareil ballerina, the love and inspiration of 20th-century ballet's greatest choreographer, is telling me at breakfast in a little bar in Lee, Massachusetts. "When people ask me to... Read more... |
Ulyana Lopatkina: The beanpole who became the soul of RussiaSaturday, 09 July 2005If you tell a tall, whisper-slim young woman of 31 that she has been described as "the soul of Russia", it is understandable that she looks startled. Two huge, smoke-grey eyes cast a doubtful glance at me, and she murmurs in Russian. Her translator... Read more... |
The battle for BalanchineSaturday, 22 July 2000THE choreographer George Balanchine died on April 30, 1983, aged 79, of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, a rare, if nowadays notorious, condition only discovered at his autopsy. What had been recognised long before his death, though, was that this man was... Read more... |
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