by Julia Rosica | Aug 23, 2017 | Profiles
La Scala Ballet étoile and American Ballet Theatre principal Roberto Bolle has been everywhere this summer, performing with companies all over the world as well as touring with his own troupe, Bolle and Friends. Still, we can’t get enough of this dreamy...
by Madeline Schrock | Jun 13, 2017 | Profiles
The dancers at Houston Ballet really know how to go above and beyond the call of duty. Not only are they spectacular performers, but they have comedic chops—the dry, sarcastic kind we love—as seen in this new promotional video for La Bayadère. The company reimagined...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Apr 27, 2016 | Company Life
When this La Bayadère clip was filmed in 2008, Natalia Osipova was two years away from breaking into the Bolshoi Ballet’s highest rank. Though she doesn’t play the tragic heroine in this performance, it’s actually a treat to watch Osipova in a purely...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Sep 30, 2015 | Profiles, Technique
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2015 issue of Pointe. Nikiya’s epic “death” solo at the end of La Bayadère’s second act is more than a test of stamina: It’s integral to the ballet’s plot. In it, Nikiya laments her...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Aug 12, 2015 | Company Life
Marius Petipa’s original version of La Bayadère, which premiered in St. Petersburg in 1877, was meant to evoke the exotic Far East. Today’s productions have no shortage of tropes that Westerners might associate with a royal Indian court: elephants,...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Nikiya’s forbidden love is taken to a whole different level in the Royal Danish Ballet’s new production of La Bayadère. At the Guggenheim’s Works and Process showing, artistic director Nikolaj Hubbe spoke about RDB’s restaging, and his...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
It’s no surprise that in romantic ballets, love presides over each characters’ motivation. But not every story concludes with a joyous marriage. Marius Petipa’s La Bayadère, set in India, reveals the possible complexities once...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
The rehearsal studio is a sacred place for dancers. It’s where they assume roles of new and timeless works, transforming their movement to convey the ballets we cherish on stage. This process is intimate and personal, and can reveal a dancer’s ability to become the...
