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Comment on Bag of Ballets by Emilia

Emilia — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:18:19 +0000

Balletmom,

BalletMet has v. good webnotes on Nixon’s version, including a list of all the other balletic versions of Midsummer’s Night Dream:

http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/Midsummer.html

Let us know in case you are looking for more info on other versions. We intend to do a fact card for Ashton’s The Dream in due course.

Best,

Comment on Bag of Ballets by balletmom

balletmom — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:58:38 +0000

Do you have any info or recommended links to Midsummer’s Night Dream?

Comment on Bag of Steps: Eight Positions by Bag of Steps: Adagio « The Ballet Bag

Bag of Steps: Adagio « The Ballet Bag — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:32:26 +0000

[...] square to the direction the dancer is facing, with the hips aligned. Développés can be performed in any direction (devant, à la seconde, derrière, etc.). Lauren Cuthbertson does an arabesque as the Winter Fairy [...]

Comment on Virtually There by All I Want for Christmas « The Ballet Bag

All I Want for Christmas « The Ballet Bag — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:44:32 +0000

[...] we have more ballet companies embracing social media? We have great fun browsing SFB’s blog, ABT’s pictures and looking at NYCB, Mariinsky [...]

Comment on Amazing Journey by All I Want for Christmas « The Ballet Bag

All I Want for Christmas « The Ballet Bag — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:44:27 +0000

[...] visits from foreign companies. It’s time the Mariinsky treated us to a full-length Ratmansky ballet (yes we do mean The Little Humpbacked Horse). ABT could follow suit and show us On the [...]

Comment on A Fiery Spirit by All I Want for Christmas « The Ballet Bag

All I Want for Christmas « The Ballet Bag — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:44:22 +0000

[...] Song of the Earth and La Sylphide with plenty of new casting delights… and preferably with Steven McRae as [...]

Comment on Sweet Disposition by All I Want for Christmas « The Ballet Bag

All I Want for Christmas « The Ballet Bag — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:44:13 +0000

[...] NYCB, ABT and Mariinsky stars guesting with the Royal Ballet. If Evgenia Obraztsova, Ekaterina Osmolkina and Yvonne Borree did so well over here in The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and [...]

Comment on Oh! You Pretty Things by Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:23:52 +0000

Sounds lovely!

Comment on Bag of Steps: Turns by Oh! You Pretty Things « The Ballet Bag

Oh! You Pretty Things « The Ballet Bag — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:42:52 +0000

[...] good time skating. To replicate the feel of dancing on ice the chassé is heavily used, as are fouettés and various forms of spinning and walking on pointe. Soloists emerge from the group dances, developing their own signature moves [...]

Comment on Ballet Myths Busted by Oh! You Pretty Things « The Ballet Bag

Oh! You Pretty Things « The Ballet Bag — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:42:44 +0000

[...] a piglet is a roasting-dish, that squirrels are vermin and that mouse-traps are cheap”. But we must try to practice what we preach and approach ballets with an open mind. Having seen neither piece before, off I went looking [...]