by Julia Rosica | Mar 3, 2021 | Viral Videos
While not nearly as common as the pas de deux, the pas de trois is a frequent feature in classical ballets that poses its own unique challenges. The seamless braiding of three dancers, in which all can equally shine, is no easy feat. In this clip from 2002, the...
by Julia Rosica | Nov 18, 2020 | Viral Videos
Natalia Osipova, a current principal of The Royal Ballet, is known for her Kitri and the charismatic bravura she brings to the stage. However, as Dulcinea, the idealized heroine danced by the same ballerina in Don Quixote, Osipova portrays a softer character with...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 25, 2020 | Company Life, Instagram, News, The Latest
While very little about this year has felt normal, we’re excited to share that one of the dance community’s landmark events is returning despite the pandemic. October 29 marks World Ballet Day 2020. This year’s iteration of the annual social media...
by Oksana Khadarina | Sep 23, 2020 | Instagram, News, Onstage, The Latest
This summer, when parts of the world were slowly emerging from the COVID-19 lockdown, all live performing arts events having been canceled or postponed, choreographer Bryan Arias found himself in Moscow creating a brand-new work for the Bolshoi Ballet. Arias, who was...
by Julia Rosica | Aug 26, 2020 | TBT
Among her storied gifts, Maya Plisetskaya, former prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, was renowned for her ability to imbue classical choreography with rich layers of meaning. In this 1963 clip of Aurora’s Act I variation from The Sleeping Beauty,...
by Julia Rosica | Mar 18, 2020 | TBT
The Bolshoi Ballet’s Ekaterina Shipulina was promoted to principal rank in late 2011, after over 13 years of dancing with the company. Yet from the earliest days of her career, her performances revealed the makings of a leading ballerina. In this 2003 clip of...
by Julia Rosica | Feb 19, 2020 | Viral Videos
Earlier this month, 15-year-old American dancer Ava Arbuckle was one of eight scholarship winners at the Prix de Lausanne. For her classical selection, Arbukle, clad in an ultra-feminine, rosette-covered tutu, performed Flora’s variation from The Awakening of...
by Amy Brandt | Jan 9, 2020 | News
Bolshoi fans, listen up: On Sunday, January 26, the company will broadcast Alexei Ratmansky’s new production of Giselle—captured from a live performance in Moscow earlier that day—to over 450 North American movie theaters as part of its Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema...
