Royal Ballet founder Ninette de Valois once said, “Classical Ballet will NEVER die”. To that we might add: Ballet ROCKS!!. We think it is the ultimate art form: it is music, movement and meaning rolled into one. It gives its audience the chance to draw personal interpretations and reflect on subconscious themes which lie beyond the surface of fairytales and tutus.
Here you will find a variety of ballet reviews and articles, in particular Royal Ballet related (after all, they are our favourite!). Our aim is to have a voice as members of a young audience and to try to prove that ballet is not “stuffy”, “old fashioned” or “inaccessible” as some may say.
Stick here for a while and fill your bags with all-things-ballet. One thing is for sure: ours are always filled with ballet tickets!
Contributors
Emilia:
When she is not watching, reading, writing or thinking about ballet this obsessive thirty-something devotes her spare time to a whole new bag of interests: from literature to theatre, from classical music to punk rock, from Victorian art to Surrealism and from gourmet cuisine to street food.
In her bag:
Books: Balletomania (Arnold Haskell), Rethinking the Sylph (Lynn Garafola)
DVDs: Royal Ballet’s Giselle with Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg. Royal Danish Ballet’s La Sylphide with Lis Jeppesen and Nikolaj Hübbe,
Ballets: La Sylphide, Dances at a Gathering, Symphonic Variations, plenty by Balanchine, Wayne McGregor’s pieces for the Royal Ballet.
Out of her bag:
William Forsythe, Mats Ek, any modern choreography set to music by Bach.
Linda:
Smiley twenty-something who is even younger at heart and loves spending time in her multiple interests, from which ballet certainly takes out a big chunk. Besides watching or doing ballet, she is often found with her head inside a book and/or listening to her ipod (which contains a wide spread selection of music and podcasts on books). She also has a mad love for science and maths.
In her bag:
Books: Zoe Anderson’s The Royal Ballet: 75 years, The Ballet Companion by Eliza Gaynor Minden.
DVDs: Royal Ballet’s Giselle with Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg (and any ballet featuring them coming out in the future).
Ballets: Giselle, all full-length MacMillan and Song of the Earth, Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering, Balanchine’s Serenade and Agon, Ashton’s Scenes de Ballet and Symphonic Variations.
Out of her bag:
Mats Ek, the tendency at ABT’s corps de ballet to display “broken wrists” port de bras and endless + pointless 180 degrees extensions.
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