by Amy Brandt | Feb 15, 2018 | News, Viral Videos
If you are in need of a feel-good ballet movie night, check this out: Bolshoi, a 2017 Russian coming-of-age drama starring real dancers and filmed on location at the Bolshoi Theater, is now available on multiple VOD platforms. The film follows Yulia Olshanskaya, a...
by Marissa DeSantis | Nov 30, 2017 | Profiles, Studio to Street
Dorothée Gilbert doesn’t subscribe to a single sartorial look. “I love to wear a beautiful dress or something very sophisticated for a night out or a party after a show,” the Paris Opéra Ballet étoile explains during a tour to...
by Julia Rosica | Nov 1, 2017 | TBT
Updated 4/12/23. When La Sylphide premiered at the Paris Opéra Ballet in 1832, it was an instant hit, establishing the romantic aesthetic and ushering in a golden age of French ballet. La Sylphide’s legacy is part of the fabric of the Paris Opéra Ballet—as is...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Aug 27, 2017 | News, Viral Videos
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aehrCm_LWc8 From Polina to Anatomy of a Male Ballet Dancer, there are plenty of ballet-themed films hitting movie theaters this month. But if you’re looking for something to share with the ballet-loving youngster in your life (or just...
by Jessika Anspach McEliece | Aug 22, 2017 | Career
Reuniting with Chelsea Adomaitis in Paris was like a little taste of home. Old friends and former corps members of the Pacific Northwest Ballet, we had both moved to Europe last summer. Over brunch she’ d share the story that brought her abroad. As a little...
by Amy Brandt | Aug 14, 2017 | Profiles
Hollywood portrayals of the dance world tend to be either campy love stories or dark, twisted melodramas. But a new French drama coming soon to American cinemas offers a more introspective (and authentic) perspective of one dancer’s search for artistic...
by Marina Harss | Jul 16, 2017 | Career, Dance History
“The whole thing was—I like jewels,” the choreographer George Balanchine told an interviewer in the spring of 1967, when asked about his newest creation for New York City Ballet, a triptych called—what else?—Jewels. He had his photograph...
by Julia Rosica | Jul 12, 2017 | Profiles, TBT
As any bunhead can attest, sometimes there is nothing more exhilarating than pure ballet technique in all its glory. Victor Gsovsky’s famous plotless pas de deux, Grand Pas Classique, is a celebration of just that. In this clip from a 1993 gala, former Paris...