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Interview

“Choreographically, it is heaven!” Marianela Núñez

A cellist, Inferno, fire and ice: Kevin O’Hare

Svetlana Zakharova in Gabrielle Chanel © Jack Devant

Svetlana Zakharova on her love affair with London

Benjamin Freemantle in McIntyre's Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem at SFB © Erik Tomasson

SF Ballet's Benjamin Freemantle

Hofesh Shechter on his creative process

Dance on tap

Ballet ABC

Marie Taglioni in La Sylphide, 1832

Louis XIV, represenetd as Louis Appolo © Wikicommons

Classical Ballet, a French Affair?

Serge Lifar, dancer with Les Ballets Russes, and Director of the Paris Opéra Ballet © Wikicommons

A little History of the French Style

A step into the world of Swan Lake

The original cast of The Sleeping Beauty, Mariinsky Theater, 1890, Carlotta Brianza (Aurora) © Wikicommons

SB: Symphonic Storytelling

Students of the Imperial Ballet School (St Petersburg) in Petipa's Fairy Tale , 1891 © Wikicommons

Italian Influence on Russian Ballet

Carlotta Grisi and Marius Petipa, La Valse, Giselle © Wikicommons | Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France

A Story book World of Ballet

Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev by Valentin Serov © Wikimedia Commons

Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: Cultural Avant Garde

English National Ballet © Photography by ASH

Nutcracker: still casting a Christmas spell

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New York CitySwan Lake (Martins)

Lincoln Center: David H Koch Theater, Feb 16 14:00, 19:00, Feb 18 19:30, Feb 19 19:30, Feb 20 19:30, Feb 21 20:00, Feb 22 14:00, 20:00, Feb 23 15:00

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake

Peter Martins; Lev Ivanov; Marius Petipa; George Balanchine; New York City Ballet; New York City Ballet Orchestra

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Kennedy Center: Opera House, Sun 16 Feb

Adam: Giselle

Jean Coralli; Jules Perrot; Marius Petipa; American Ballet Theatre; Ormsby Wilkins; Gianni Quaranta; Anna Anni; Jennifer Tipton

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Mathilde Froustey and Carlo Di Lanno in Welch's Bespoke © Erik Tomasson

War Memorial Opera House, Feb 16 14:00, Feb 20 19:30, Feb 22 14:00, 20:00

Bach, Einaudi, Pärt, Britten, Anderson

Stanton Welch; Mark Morris; Val Caniparoli; Christopher Wheeldon; Helgi Tomasson; San Francisco Ballet; Cordula Merks; Natal'ya Feygina; San Francisco Ballet Orchestra; Esteban Hernandez

Erkel Színház (Erkel Theatre), Feb 16 11:00, 19:00

Various: The Karamazovs

Boris Eifman; Hungarian National Ballet; Vyacheslav Okunev

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Staatsoper, Feb 17 19:00, Feb 22 19:00, Feb 24 18:30

Shostakovich, Various, Liszt

Sir Kenneth MacMillan; Wayne McGregor; Sir Frederick Ashton; Vienna State Ballet; Deborah MacMillan; Ursula Bombshell; Charles Balfour

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Opéra National du Rhin, Feb 18, 19, 20, 21 at 20:00

Various: Yours, Virginia

Gil Carlos Harush; Ballet de l'Opéra national du Rhin; Thomas Herzog; Aurélie Maestre; Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse

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Confident new works from the Joffrey Ballet

Jeraldine Mendoza and ensembe in The Times are Racing © Cheryl Mann

Joseph Houseal, 12 Feb

The Joffrey Ballet presents a roster of choreographers with new approaches, a positive impression for the future of ballet.

*****

Jaime Robles, 11 Feb

“Your love affair with ballet, your time with ballet, is short,” explains Welsh about his ballet Bespoke, “Eventually you lay down, and dance keeps moving. It’s a bittersweet thing.”

****1

Sydney Boyd, 11 Feb

A classic staging at the Kennedy Center turned resplendent in the second act.

****1

Salome Leverashvili and ensemble © Hans Gerritsen

Sarah Batschelet, 08 Feb

The world premiere of Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's ballet about the legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is unsurprisingly colourful and highly dramatic by design.

***11