ABT premiered its fourth version of Cinderella Monday evening, the Frederick Ashton 1948 masterpiece. Although I have not seen the 1983 Baryshnikov adaptation, the Ashton version is an improvement over James Kudelka’s modern, art Deco piece that ABT debuted in …
Month: June 2014
ABT Cinderella Premier,
June 9, 2014
I posted photos of Monday’s ABT premier of Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella on my photography website notmydayjobphotography.com. Hee Seo and James Whiteside were the leads. Check back Wednesday for my review.
Washington Ballet
Hard Steps Video
Here is a really cool video of bravura ballet steps demonstrated by Washington Ballet dancers produced by The Washington Post: Andile Ndlovu-The Butterfly Chong Sun-540 Battement en Rond Maki Onuki-Kitri’s Grande Jeté Corey Landolt-5 Consecutive Double Tours Francesca Dugarte-7 Double …
Radetsky in Vogue
ABT Soloist Sascha Radetsky has a nice piece in Vogue.com. The Vogue article is the first part in a series that chronicles his last season at ABT. I interviewed him on his passion for writing last week. Sascha’s article documents …
Balancing Pointe Interviews
Leading Dancers
Kimberly Falker at Balancing Pointe has amazing podcast interviews with some of the world’s leading dancers: Megan Fairchild and Andrew Veyette of New York City Ballet, Heather Ogden and Guillaume Côté of National Ballet of Canada, Tiit Helimets of San Francisco Ballet. …
ABT Coppélia, May 31
Gillian Murphy and Jared Matthews gave a very enjoyable and solid performance in ABT’s Saturday evening performance of Coppélia. Gillian and Jared were in synch with each other in the various dances and pulled off the intricate pantomime work throughout …