Tag: staatsballett berlin

She Is a Berliner (and a Ballerina)

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 […]

A Flower Will Be Named After Ballerina Polina Semionova

I spent a while trying to think of a cleverer title for this blog. But then I gave up—because the plain facts of this story are awesome/crazy enough to stand on their own. On August 30 in Berlin’s botanical garden, a rare hybrid of the Rehmannia flower will be named “Polina S.” after ballerina Polina […]