Alexei Ratmansky’s Cinderella, choreographed for the Mariinsky Ballet in 2002 when he was an unknown 34-year-old budding choreographer, is a quirky, campy, modern interpretation of the classic. His Cinderella closely follows the themes and story of a traditional production with …
Month: January 2015
Mariinsky Ballet Cinderella,
Jan 17
I posted photos of curtain calls for Mariinsky Ballet’s Cinderella Saturday night with Diana Vishneva and Konstantin Zverev at BAM in New York. Click the above photo to see more photos on my photography website notmydayjobphotography.com. Interesting production with a …
Mariinsky Swan Lake Review,
Thur, Jan 15
The Mariinsky Ballet opened its BAM run Thursday, performing Swan Lake on the 120th anniversary of the St. Petersburg premier of the Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa work. The current is the 1950 Konstantin Sergeyev Soviet-era version, noted for a …
The Royal Ballet at Lincoln Center
Great news! The New York Times reports that The Royal Ballet will perform at the Koch Theater at Lincoln Center from June 23-28 after performing at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. from June 9-14 and Chicago from June 18-21. …
Mariinsky Ballet Swan Lake,
Jan 15
I posted a few curtain call photos from Mariinsky Ballet’s Swan Lake Thursday at BAM with Viktoria Tereshkina and Vladimir Shklyarov. Click the above photo to go to my photography website notmydayjobphotography.com. Enjoyed the performance and check out my review …
Pointe Shoes, Part I
Above photo courtesy of Freed of London. Think of classical ballet and a woman dancing in pointe shoes immediately comes to mind. Pointe shoes were originally designed to allow women to appear weightless in Romantic era supernatural, otherworldly roles as …