Tag: balanchine
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Sydney Upchurch, the Prix de Lausanne Candidate We Should All Be Watching
future ballet superstars, recently announced their list of 81 finalists. One of the finalists and the only African American selected to participate at the Prix de Lausanne, Sydney Upchurchage (age 15), is a talented young dancer from Cary Ballet.
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The Symphonic Ballet & how we should take note…
The creation of a ballet usually happens in one of three ways. The first way of creating a ballet is the relationship of choreographer and composer working together to birth a new work, The Four Temperaments. The second way is the ability to create steps or a vocabulary first and then the composer is inspired,…
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The Great Men of Ballet: Part 1
Some men in ballet will be immortalized for their achievements and the genius that they created. In this first set of illustrations, I decided to capture some of the great men who have contributed to the New York City Ballet. As I illustrated these, I listened to the music that inspired them, and thought, Peter…
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What is Contemporary Ballet?
In the world of ballet, well the world of dance, everyone is throwing around the genre of contemporary ballet. But, what is contemporary ballet? If we look at the dance spectrum as a whole, contemporary would fall somewhere between classical ballet and post-modern. If we looked at a progressive timeline, contemporary ballet would fall somewhere…
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corps de ballet confessional: Elizabeth Weldon of Ballet West
By reputation, ballerinas are these willowy, elongated creatures that are unobtainable… That could pretty much sums up Elizabeth Weldon, a corps de ballet member at TV’s most popular ballet company, Ballet West. With feet to die for, ideal body proportions and musicality that rivals most, she tops it off by being humble in her achievements,…
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BALANCHINE FEST!!! WATCH ASAP BEFORE IT GETS TAKEN DOWN LOL….
I don’t know who Joanne Cowley is… or how she got away with it… so enjoy while you can… With debut performances by leads Tiler Peck, Amar Ramasar and Lauren King. Performance February 17, 2016. Cast has leads Sara Mearns, Ask la Cour and Savannah Lowery. Performed 2/16/16 Most of Peter Martins’ staging of La…
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You know you trained Balanchine Part 3…
In today’s world of ballet, you have to be living under a rock not to know who Balanchine is. The opposite of that would be living in 1930 and thinking ballet has not changed. These days, the technique has been refined with the help of physics and anatomy. We have mastered our bodies through kinesiology.…
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Before there was Symphony in C…
If you didn’t know… before there was Symphony in C, Balanchine originally choreographed it as Le Palais di Cristal for Paris Opera… Set to Bizet’s symphony in C, with costumes by Christian Lacroix… this version I like a lot better… If you haven’t seen it yet, and before it gets taken down for copyright stuff,…
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Getting Ready For Summer: UPDATE
Totally getting excited as we are getting ready to launch our first issue… It is a lot of hard work, and truth be told, I don’t know if it is going to come out JUNE 1, but I am hoping. We have partnered up with some really great advertisers, offering your guys some really great…
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100 POSTS
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE!! We have officially done 100 Blog Posts. As we approach our 1 year anniversary… We have a lot in store and we are so excited. Thank you all for your support.
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Dream Casting…
Some have fantasy football… I have fantasy ballet nights. If I were going to die, I would cash out everything I own and have one super star studded night of good ballet. And, I probably would invite all of my friends and family as well. (That has yet to be decided) Now, with all of…
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Fantastic Five: 5 Really Great Male Variations
In the world of ballet, variations define a dancer’s career. As artists a variation is the one moment where technique, artistry and years of daunting rehearsals finally meet. A 2-3 Act ballet is carried by the principals, and the defining moment for them are their variations. For a female in the role(s) Odette/Odile, she is first…
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Ballet Vocabulary: Lesson 1
In the world of ballet, there are three languages. There is the language in which ballet was codified, French. Then there is the language in which interprets ballet, body language backed by emotion. And then there is a language that ballet dancers actually speak, a language of their own, and I’m not talking about French.…
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BIG THINGS FOR A BALLET EDUCATION
So, I have decided to launch a few big things for a Ballet Education, and I hope they are helpful… But, unfortunately it will take a little bit of capitol. If you have enjoyed reading my blog, minus the grammar mistakes, you can now donate so I can pay an editor to go back through…
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The Return: A Ballet Education
… I thought I was going to be giving this up, and I thought I would leave my nightly rants to Facebook… BUT THEN a ballet company finally replied to my e-mail, and they did not have anything nice to say… So, with that being said, a Ballet Education is coming back full force… Don’t…
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You know you trained Balanchine… pt Deux… You know you have danced Balanchine if…
We have all heard famous stories, infamous quotes, or my personal favorite, “Balanchine Said…” or “Balanchine told me…” For some ballet dancers, they are lucky enough to dance at the School of American Ballet, and have first hand experience with the New York City Ballet Legends… Or, now across the US, numerous schools have added Balanchine…
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The Masters…
So yesterday was Balanchine’s Birthday, and as the internet was flooded with beautiful images of everyone dancing their favorite work it made me realize how connected ballet is. In addition, the NYT featured the give girls from Serenade on the front cover, above the fold. BIG DEAL. Now, from reading these most intimate stories, and…
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It”s a New Year…
Hello readers! Wishing you the best this new year! For those of you who are students, best of luck with your summer program auditions. And for those of you who are dancers, merde for the spring season. And, for those of you who simply enjoy ballet and this blog, I hope this year brings everything…
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Arabesque.
The Position That Makes Ballet, well ballet… Sara Michelle Murawski’s, a soloist at Slovak National Ballet, super famous arabesque picture that probably one of the first pictures that made dancers addicted to instagram. Contemporary Dancers have the tilt, jazz dancers have the layout, but ballet dancers have arabesque. For those of you who are auditioning…
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