by Amy Brandt | Apr 20, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Profiles
On the Mariinsky Ballet’s tour to the U.S. last fall, audiences clamored to see long established stars like Ekaterina Kondaurova, Kimin Kim, Viktoria Tereshkina and Vladimir Shklyarov. But it was also an opportunity to catch an exciting group of young protégés...
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 Dana Nichols For Dance Magazine | Dec 11, 2019 | Career
On Instagram this week, Misty Copeland reposted a picture of two Russian ballerinas covered head to toe in black, exposing the Bolshoi’s practice of using black face in the classical ballet La Bayadère. The post has already received over 60,000 likes and...
by Julia Rosica | Sep 29, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights. Premieres and Cross-Genre Collabs at Fall for Dance Festival The annual Fall for Dance Festival at New York City Center kicks off on October 1. Now in its 16th year, the two-week...
by Julia Rosica | Sep 18, 2019 | Profiles, TBT
What do Diana Vishneva, Olga Smirnova, Kristina Shapran and Maria Khoreva all have in common? These women, among the most impressive talents to graduate from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in recent years, all studied under legendary professor Lyudmila Kovaleva....
by Julia Rosica | May 15, 2019 | Profiles, TBT
The Soviet Union redefined standards in classical ballet in the 1960s, producing opulent story ballets and dancers with refined, yet daring technique. Dancers like Natalia Makarova and Valery Panov, who were among the leading performers with the Kirov Ballet (now the...
by Claudia Bauer | Apr 11, 2019 | Career, Profiles
Before Maria Khoreva danced her first performance as a member of the Mariinsky Ballet, she was already a superstar, with devoted Instagram fans following her life as a pupil in the Vaganova Academy (follow her @marachok). Her talent was already obvious—as were...
by Laura Cappelle | Dec 21, 2018 | Profiles
The luminous Olesya Novikova has become one of St. Petersburg’s best-kept secrets. Pushed into leading roles early, the 34-year-old has been out of the limelight in recent years, partly because she has given birth to three children with husband Leonid Sarafanov....