We told you it was coming—and now it’s finally arrived! Today is the first-ever World Ballet Day, which means it’s time to watch dancers from five of the world’s greatest companies—the Australian Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Royal Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, and San Francisco Ballet—taking class and rehearsing. The up-close-and-personal experience is […]
So, this is super-duper awesome: October 1st will be the first ever World Ballet Day! I know, I know—it’s not like you need another reason to celebrate the most elegant of art forms. But this is going to be a pretty amazing celebration. Five of the world’s biggest ballet companies have teamed up to offer […]
Attention, bunheads! A new video is circulating the web, and it’s a beauty. Dancing on Rough Ground highlights Anastasia Kurkova, who left the Bolshoi Ballet to join one of Germany’s premier ballet companies, Staatsballett Berlin. (It’s a part of the I Am Berlin film series—a sequel to I Am Los Angeles—featuring an assortment of people […]
Lovely ladies: a screen shot from “The Guardian”‘s first peek at Bolshoi company class. What’s the only thing better than seeing gorgeous professional ballet dancers onstage? Watching them in their daily class, where we can observe them working through their flaws, just as we do in our own ballet classes. (Well, admittedly, their flaws are […]
Unsurprisingly, pretty impressive! Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet is currently on tour in London, and Britain’s Telegraph was able to get some great video footage of the company’s ladies in their morning class at the Royal Opera House. The paper had a special tour guide, too: principal dancer Ekaterina Krysanova, one of the ballerinas tackling the role […]
American Ballet Theatre and Bolshoi Ballet principal David Hallberg has been a pretty major ballet star for a pretty long time now. But he’s also becoming a bona fide star of the fashion world. Not that that’s a surprise, really: Hallberg is a beautiful guy, in addition to being a beautiful dancer, and seems to […]
Sara Mearns is back! The gorgeous New York City Ballet principal has been out for eight months—eight months—with a back injury. But a couple of weeks ago she was finally able to return to the stage, and we were finally able to recover from our SMearns withdrawal. The news gets even better: Sara has decided […]
Bolshoi Ballet director Sergei Filin was attacked near his home last night by a masked man who threw acid on Filin’s face. The director is suffering from third-degree burns that will require extensive plastic surgery, and sources from the company say that he may also lose his eyesight. Some are speculating that the attack on […]