The Flames of Paris made its U.S. debut Friday at Lincoln Center with Mikhailovsky Ballet. The original work premiered in 1932, commissioned to show people rising up against tyranny to commemorate of the 15th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. …
Month: November 2014
Flames of Paris,
Mikhailovsky Ballet, Nov. 14
Vive la révolution! I posted photos from Mikhailovsky Ballet’s Flames of Paris at Lincoln Center from Friday on my photography website notmydayjobphotography. The production features the acrobatic Ivan Vasiliev, who empties out his expansive bag of high flying pyrotechnic tricks. Check …
Mikhailovsky Giselle,
November 13
If you’re a fan of gravity defying leaps, Lincoln Center was the place to be Thursday evening as Natalia Osipova and Leonid Sarafanov closed out Mikhailovsky Ballet’s Lincoln Center Giselle, Ou Les Wilis run. Both dancers have enormous ballon, which …
Mikhailovsky Ballet at
Lincoln Center
I don’t make any money from my blog or photography website, but there are nice non-monetary benefits from my web activities. I attended a news and photography photo op this afternoon, which provides the press (and bloggers apparently) an opportunity …
Mariinsky at BAM
Mariinsky Ballet will perform at Brooklyn Academy of Music from January 15-24, its first appearance in New York in four years. Here is the schedule posted on the BAM site: Swan Lake Thursday Jan. 15 Viktoria Tereshkina and …
Stella Abrera Helping Philippines in Typhoon Recovery
After ABT’s Australia tour from August 28 to September 7, ABT Soloist Stella Abrera visited her native Philippines with a dual purpose: perform Giselle with Ballet Philippines and help schoolchildren in Guiuan, a city devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan last …