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arabella4ever
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Posté le: Ven Sep 12, 2008 7:51 am Sujet du message: |
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L'annonce est déjà officialisée sur le site de l'ABT:
Toujours à propos de l'ABT, Roberto Bolle figure maintenant à l'effectif de la compagnie en tant que "danseur principal". |
Il y a des compagnies qui ont bien de la chance!
moi qui rêvais qu'on "vole" Bolle à la Scala et Lunkina au Bolchoï!
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sophia
Inscrit le: 03 Jan 2004 Messages: 22104
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Posté le: Ven Sep 12, 2008 9:06 am Sujet du message: |
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J'espère qu'Alexeï Ratmansky contribuera un peu à redorer le blason de l'ABT... Néanmoins, il est toujours prévu qu'il monte des chorégraphies pour d'autres compagnies dans le monde. Et il reste de toute façon au Bolchoï en tant que chorégraphe de la troupe. Sa création pour le NYCB, pour lequel il avait déjà chorégraphié (Russian Seasons), est prévue pour 2010 et surtout, en mars prochain, il y aura la première du Petit Cheval Bossu au Mariinsky. Il était aussi question d'une création pour l'Australian Ballet.
Mais en attendant, cette venue semble déjà faire débat, si l'on s'en réfère à l'article de Robert Johnson publié dans The Star-Ledger:
A blessing from the Bolshoi? Let's debate
Evidemment, c'est un point de vue, mais il faut savoir que Ratmansky était lui-même très discuté en Russie.
Quant à Roberto Bolle, je pense que l'ABT ne fait qu'officialiser un état de fait, car cela faisait plusieurs saisons qu'il y dansait régulièrement en tant qu'invité (tout comme Diana Vishneva qui figure aussi maintenant à l'effectif officiel de la compagnie).
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sophia
Inscrit le: 03 Jan 2004 Messages: 22104
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Posté le: Sam Sep 13, 2008 8:18 am Sujet du message: |
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Un autre point de vue sur Ratmansky et l'ABT, celui d'Alastair Macauley dans le New-York Times: New Home for an Artist, New Hope for American Ballet Theater
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In the meantime, what a coup for Ballet Theater, and how historic. Even after 20 years of glasnost, it’s startling to find the Bolshoi’s artistic director switching in midcareer to America’s national ballet company. To the Bolshoi — and to City Ballet, which began negotiations with Mr. Ratmansky about making him its resident choreographer this spring but shelved them — I have to say, “butterfingers.”
Ballet Theater could be in many ways a very good home for him. The company likes to fill the Metropolitan Opera House (and some of the other theaters it visits across the nation) with full-length story ballets; his “Bright Stream” is the best evening-length story ballet since MacMillan. The company would love a choreographer who could fill its larger theaters with one-act ballets; Mr. Ratmansky might just be able to do that. Ballet Theater loves dance virtuosity, comedy and dance as music-drama; Mr. Ratmansky has scored in all these departments.
Dancers (at City Ballet as well as at the Bolshoi) tend to look their best in his works; Ballet Theater has a wealth of talented, even prodigious, dancers, many of whom (especially women) are as yet incomplete as artists. Ballet Theater specializes in the 19th-century repertory; Mr. Ratmansky knows both its Russian and Western traditions and has been the co-director of a new production of one of its ballets (“Le Corsaire” in 2007).
Could be, might be, tend to. I’m hopeful, not confident. Since its inception Ballet Theater has been so geared to crowd-pleasing and to survival that it has never yet sustained a long relationship with an important choreographer. Antony Tudor, who from 1942 to 1976 made several of the company’s finest ballets, had a distinctly checkered experience with the troupe. Neither MacMillan nor Twyla Tharp, who each joined Ballet Theater during the ’80s, remained for more than a few seasons. Can Mr. Ratmansky break this mold too? |
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sophia
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Posté le: Mer Sep 17, 2008 2:12 pm Sujet du message: |
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Toujours à propos de Ratmansky chorégraphe:
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Il était aussi question d'une création pour l'Australian Ballet. |
Alexeï Ratmansky créera donc pour l'Australian Ballet, en août prochain, une nouvelle version de Scuola di ballo (Ecole de danse), un ballet de Léonide Massine (1933) sur la musique de César Franck. L'information a été donnée hier à l'occasion de la conférence de présentation de la saison 2009 de l'Australian Ballet. Cette création a lieu dans le cadre d'un projet, que la compagnie australienne poursuit depuis quatre ans, d'hommage aux Ballets russes.
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In August, in a program called Concord, Melbourne will see the world premieres of works by two international choreographers, from Britain, Wayne McGregor, and the former director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky. "Wayne's aesthetic is going to be quite contemporary," McAllister says. "He's working with a commissioned score that we haven't quite nailed down yet. He's lovely to work with, and challenges the dancers in the studio in a way that they want to do more for him."
The Ratmansky work is a version of Scuola di ballo (Ballet School), created by Leonide Massine in 1933 for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, with music by Cesar Franck. "Alexei is brilliant at taking existing works and reinterpreting them," McAllister says. Concord is completed by a revival of Nacho Duarto's Por vos Muero.
Source: The Age - New season crowns a revealing tribute |
Source: http://www.australiadancing.org/subjects/5441.html
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sophia
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Posté le: Lun Oct 13, 2008 10:30 pm Sujet du message: |
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"Alexei Ratmansky at The New Yorker Festival"
Sur le blog d'actualités culturelles http://dancingperfectlyfree.wordpress.com/ , compte-rendu d'une rencontre publique, qui avait lieu début octobre à New-York, entre Alexeï Ratmansky et la critique de danse du New-Yorker, Joan Acocella.
http://dancingperfectlyfree.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/ratmansky-at-the-new-yorker-festival/
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When asked to describe what it’s like to choreograph after the death of Mr. Balanchine, Ratmansky said that there is a clear divide for him between the Russian style and neoclassicism. Russian audiences appreciate and expect to see more story ballets (”They want to see the girl in a tutu”), which they believe are superior to the abstract, plot-less ballets for which Balanchine is known. But Ratmansky clearly values Balanchine’s style, stating that when Balanchine asked a dancer to lean off balance or turn in, “it was a revolution”.
Ms. Acocella asked Ratmansky why so many Bolshoi dancers have said nasty things about him. In an attempt to introduce new work to the Bolshoi, he brought in contemporary choreographers including Twyla Tharp and Christopher Wheeldon, even though most of the dancers were satisfied with performing the same repertoire. Ratmansky thought that Tharp’s In the Upper Room would speak to Russians, but as is the case with any ballet, some people will love it and some will hate it. Ultimately, Ratmansky felt that he had to make his own decisions about what to bring to the Bolshoi.
Regarding his decision to work with ABT and not with NYCB, Ratmansky simply explained that his contract at ABT provides him with enough free time to work with other companies, whereas he wouldn’t have had this flexibility at NYCB. It was also announced that his first ballet for ABT, premiering in June 2009, will be to a Prokofiev score. One of the most memorable things that Ratmansky said was, “Audiences want more emotional contact”, and that a dance company’s job is to establish “direct communication with the public”. Hopefully his contributions to ABT will meet these criteria. |
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Cléo
Inscrit le: 21 Sep 2008 Messages: 124 Localisation: PARIS
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Posté le: Lun Oct 20, 2008 12:26 pm Sujet du message: |
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D'un chorégraphe en résidence à un autre...
Un article intéressant sur Christopher Wheeldon qui a quitté son poste de chorégraphe en résidence au NYCB pour fonder sa propre compagnie, Morphoses. Ratmanski avait été approché pour le remplacer... Celui dont on a vu, en septembre, des productions très inégales [décevant "caroussel" mais excellent "after the rain"] parle de manière sensible de son parcours en chorégraphie et de sa démarche. Il donne les raisons de son départ du NYCB ainsi que ce qui le pousse, dans le même temps, à continuer son travail de chorégraphe itinérant.
http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/October-2008/Ballets-MetaMorphoses
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Natalia Osipova rejoindra l'ABT en tant qu'"artiste invitée" à partir de la saison 2009.
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NATALIA OSIPOVA TO JOIN ABT
AS GUEST ARTIST FOR 2009 SPRING SEASON
10/20/2008 - Natalia Osipova, a leading soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet, will join American Ballet Theatre as a Guest Artist during the Company’s 2009 Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House, it was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie.
Osipova was born in Moscow and trained at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography with Marina Kotova and Marina Leonova. Upon her graduation in 2004, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet and was promoted to first soloist in January 2008 and to leading soloist in October 2008.
Osipova’s repertoire with the Bolshoi includes Giselle and the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, the Spanish Doll in The Nutcracker, the role of Mustardseed, which she created, in John Neumeier’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Spanish Bride in Swan Lake, Kitri in Don Quixote, Gamzatti and a Shade in La Bayadère, Aspiccia in The Pharaoh’s Daughter, Medora and an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, the title role in La Sylphide, Jeanne in Alexei Ratmansky’s staging of Flames of Paris, and soloist roles in George Balanchine’s Serenade and Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room.
Osipova won the Grand Prize at the Prix de Luxembourg International Ballet Competition in 2003 and Third Prize at the International Ballet Competition in Moscow in 2005. At the 2007 National Dance Awards in London, she received the Richard Sherrington Award for Best Female Dancer. In 2008 she received the Golden Mask Award from the Theatre Union of Russia for her performance in In the Upper Room.
The 2009 Spring Season will mark Osipova’s first appearance with American Ballet Theatre.
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Posté le: Dim Oct 26, 2008 9:55 am Sujet du message: |
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Alexeï Ratmansky montera pour l'ABT le ballet Sur le Dniepr (anciennement Sur le Borysthène). Première le 1er juin 2009 dans le cadre d'un programme-hommage à Prokofiev.
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10/24/2008 - American Ballet Theatre’s 2009 Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House, May 18-July 11, was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. Highlighting the engagement will be the World Premiere of an all-new staging of On the Dnieper by Alexei Ratmansky, ABT’s Artist-in-Residence.
Principal Dancers for the engagement will include Nina Ananiashvili, Maxim Beloserkovsky, Roberto Bolle, Jose Manuel Carreño, Angel Corella, Herman Cornejo, Irina Dvorovenko, Marcelo Gomes, David Hallberg, Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent, Gillian Murphy, Xiomara Reyes, Ethan Stiefel, Diana Vishneva and Michele Wiles. Natalia Osipova, a leading soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet, will perform as a guest artist for the Spring season.
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Alexei Ratmansky, American Ballet Theatre’s Artist-in-Residence, will choreograph an all-new production of Sergei Prokofiev’s On the Dnieper which will receive its World Premiere on Monday evening, June 1 as part of ABT’’s All-Prokofiev Celebration. On the Dnieper will feature sets by Simon Pastukh, costumes by Galina Solovyeva and lighting by Brad Fields. Prokofiev’s score for On the Dnieper was originally commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and the ballet received its World Premiere in 1932 by the Paris Opera Ballet. |
Par ailleurs, il est annoncé que Nina Ananiashvili donnera sa dernière représentation le 27 juin.
Toute la saison de printemps de l'ABT: http://www.abt.org/insideabt/news_display.asp?News_ID=246
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Petite anecdote qui ne changera pas non plus la face du monde: le nouveau secrétaire de la Maison-Blanche, Rahm Emanuel, a étudié la danse classique étant enfant puis adolescent, et est diplômé de la Evanston School of Ballet (Illinois). Il a même reçu une bourse pour intégrer le prestigieux Joffrey Ballet...
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Posté le: Ven Nov 28, 2008 6:44 pm Sujet du message: |
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Les archives photographiques du magazine LIFE sont désormais accessibles en ligne via Google et recèlent de véritables trésors, en particulier pour les amateurs de ballet. On y trouvera notamment de nombreuses photographies autour des ballets de Balanchine, des danseurs du NYCB ou de l'ABT... Mais pas uniquement... L'Opéra, le Bolchoï, etc... sont aussi présents. Le site est donc à explorer selon l'envie du moment. Par ailleurs, les images sont cliquables et apparaissent alors en plus ou moins haute résolution à l'écran.
Sur les ballets d'Antony Tudor, Pillar of Fire ou Roméo et Juliette entre autres, quelques clichés historiques:
http://images.google.com/images?q=Antony+Tudor+source:life
http://www.life.com/Life/
http://images.google.com/hosted/life
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Posté le: Sam Nov 29, 2008 10:48 am Sujet du message: |
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Voilà une bonne idée !
Et vous avez raison Cléo : le "Jardin aux Lilas" a déjà été dansé par le Ballet de l'Opéra, à l'Opéra Comique, dans les années 90. Il me semble que c'est R.Noureev qui l'a fait entrer au répertoire
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