by Caroline Seymour | Jul 13, 2016 | Company Life
Ballet is nothing without technique, but when a performance is accompanied by nothing more than that, it loses its allure. Not so in this 1983 clip of American Ballet Theatre’s Cynthia Harvey in Don Quixote. Here, she’s a breath of fresh air, striking the...
by Caroline Seymour | Jun 29, 2016 | Company Life
Swan Lake , Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet and Don Quixote are some of my favorite ballets. I love watching the grace that is Odette and Aurora and the strength of Juliet and Kitri. But after watching this clip from a DVD released in 2009 of Mariinsky Ballet...
by Amy Brandt | Mar 8, 2016 | Company Life
Angel Corella has been shaking things up at Pennsylvania Ballet ever since he took over as artistic director in 2014. His new production of Don Quixote, which premiered last weekend and runs through Sunday, March 13, features a slew of young corps and apprentice...
by Ellen Dunkel | Feb 29, 2016 | News
This story originally appeared in the February/March 2016 issue of Pointe. When Pennsylvania Ballet premieres artistic director Angel Corella’s Don Quixote on March 3 at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music, it will be the company’s first time performing...
by Hannah Foster | Feb 24, 2016 | Company Life
Daniil Simkin and Roberta Marquez. Photo by Hiroyuki Ito via Getty Images He may appear baby-faced in this clip from the 2005 Helsinki International Ballet Competition, but 17-year-old Daniil Simkin already dances like a fully formed prince. In Basilio’s...
by Hannah Foster | Sep 16, 2015 | Company Life
The ballet Don Quixote depicts classical Russian elegance dressed in fiery Spanish flair. Although Marius Petipa’s version for the Bolshoi Ballet debuted in 1869, most modern productions are based off of Alexander Gorksy’s 1900 revival. He sought to trade...
by Rosie Gaynor | Mar 31, 2010 | Company Life
In The Wings: Jenna Nelson At Pacific Northwest Ballet School Folks don’t always notice Jenna Nelson right off the bat. She has what Pacific Northwest Ballet School principal Abbie Siegel calls “a quiet strength.” It’s a steadfast presence that doesn’t beg for...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
It’s been over 60 years since the last time The Joffrey commissioned a new full-length ballet. So there’s been a bunch of buzz surrounding the company’s world premiere of Yuri Possokhov’s Don Quixote, which opens tomorrow night at Roosevelt...