Feb / Mar 2024 issue

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SUMMER
2024


Summer courses, intensives, workshops


Where To Study

SCHOOLS, COURSES, YOUTH COMPANIES

19 MARCH

PARIS
Paris Opera - La Fille mal gardée ch: Ashton  opera-de-paris.fr

20 MARCH

AMSTERDAM

Dutch National Opera and Ballet Oedipus Rex / Antigone ch: Linning operaballet.nl

LISBON
National Ballet of Portugal - Concerto Barocco ch: Balanchine / Upstream ch: Andrew McNicol / Workwithinwork ch: Forsythe www.cnb.pt

LONDON
The Royal Ballet - Danses Concertantes / Different Drummer / Requiem ch: MacMillan roh.org.uk

PARIS
Paris Opera - La Fille mal gardée ch: Ashton  opera-de-paris.fr

PLYMOUTH
Birmingham Royal Ballet The Sleeping Beauty pr: Wright - Theatre Royal - brb.org.uk


Dance for Ukraine

Putrov Productions' second Dance for Ukraine gala was held at the London Palladium on 18 February. Proceeds from the gala will be used to assist young Ukrainian dancers in their training and also towards a new production of Sir Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée for the Ukrainian National Ballet. The rights to the ballet have been generously waived by Jean-Pierre Gasquet and the ballet will be staged at the beginning of 2024/25 season. Contributions to this worthy cause can be made at LINK Photos © Emma Kauldhar




New Works

The Royal Ballet's New Choreography season includes New Works - a programme comprising four premieres on the main stage: Gemma Bond's Boundless, Joshua Junker's Never Known, Mthuthuzeli November's For What It's Worth and Jessica Lang's Twinkle. Final two shows on 20 and 21 February. roh.org.uk


Grand Audition Barcelona - CONTRACTS
Seventeen contracts have been offered and 17 dancers are on waiting lists. Latest updates HERE

Wayne McGregor
withdraws from Jocasta's Line


Dutch National Opera & Ballet has announced that stage director and choreographer Wayne McGregor has withdrawn from the production Jocasta’s Line due to private circumstances and so it is not impossible to continue with the staging of the production. Dutch National Opera director Sophie de Lint and Dutch National Ballet director Ted Brandsen have decided that, instead of Jocasta’s Line, a double bill of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex and Samy Moussa’s world premiere of Antigone will be realised with a new creative team including choreographer Nanine Linning. LINK


La Sylphide in Lisbon

Short documentary with excerpts from La Sylphide and interviews with Francesco Gomes, Raquel Fidalgo and artistic director Carlos Prado filmed at Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon


Laurretta Summercales

Featured on the cover as Tatiana in John Cranko's Onegin, Bayersiches Staatsballett principal Laurretta Summerscales recently returned to London for a few weeks as a guest artist at English National Ballet and gave a filmed interview in her dressing room at the London Coliseum.

Prix de Lausanne
The winners have been announced!


Prix Carpeaux
Congratulations to Inès Mcintosh and Enzo Saugar who were presented with the Prix de Carpeaux in La Rotonde at the Palais Garnier on 29 January.


Nureyev Exhibition
Museum Library, Paris Opera until 5 April


People APPOINTMENTS AND DEPARTURES


César Morales

Birmingham Royal Ballet principal César Morales (pictured above as Albrecht in Giselle with BRB) has been appointed as the artistic director of Ballet de Santiago, returning to the company where he first danced Prince Siegfried, aged 18. Video INTERVIEW  from 2023. 


Marcelino Sambé

The Royal Ballet opened its run of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon on 17 January with Francesca Hayward in the title role and Marcelino Sambé making his debut as Des Grieux. Originally premiered on 7 March 1974, the ballet is celebrating its 50th anniversary and performances with many different casts continue until 8 March. roh.org.uk

Onegin in Munich

Bayerisches Staatsballett opened a series of performances of John Cranko's Onegin on 12 January with a sterling cast including Laurretta Summerscales, Osiel Gouneo and Matteo Dilaghi as Tatiana, Onegin and Gremin, and auspicious debuts by António Casalinho and Margarita Fernandes as Lenski and Olga. Dates and casting at  https://www.staatsoper.de


Raymonda

Dutch National Ballet is performing Rachel Beaujean's production of Raymonda from 9 December to 1 January with several casts including debuts. The general rehearsal featured Anna Tsygankova as Raymonda, Jan Spunda as Jean de Brienne and Giorgi Potskhishvili as Abd al-Rahman who are pictured in the GALLERY. Potskhishvili was promoted to principal after his debut performance in December.


The Nutcracker

The Royal Ballet is presenting Peter Wright's Nutcracker from 6 December - 13 January at the Royal Opera House with many different casts. There will be a screening of the performance to cinemas worldwide on 12 December, followed by encore screenings on 15 December. More info at www.roh.org.uk The cinema cast includes Anna Rose O'Sullivan and Marcelino Sambé who also led the general rehearsal on 4 December and are featured in the GALLERY

Swan Lake in Astana

The Ballet of the Astana Opera premiered a new staging of Swan Lake with additional choreography by artistic director Altynai Asylmuratova on 1 December in Astana. The production has sets by Ezio Frigerio and costumes by Franca Squarciapino. The performance was led by Aigerim Beketayeva as Odette / Odile and young soloist Dias Kurmangazy making his debut as Prince Siegfried. GALLERY of photos from the premiere.


Elisa Badenes

We are delighted to announce that Elisa Badenes is the Dancer of the Year for 2023. Initially nominated by Lucy Van Cleef in the annual Critics’ Choice, Badenes won the readers’ vote by a substantial margin. Originally from Valencia, she studied at the Royal Ballet School on a Prix de Lausanne scholarship and is a principal with Stuttgart Ballet. She talks candidly about her career to date in an interview filmed between a rehearsal and evening performance at the opera house in Stuttgart.


Victor Caixeta's Albrecht

This short film follows Dutch National Ballet’s Brazilian principal through the day, from breakfast to after the show, as he makes his debut as Albrecht, partnering Maia Makhateli's Giselle at Dutch National Ballet. The production of Giselle is by Rachel Beaujean.


Xander Parish - Raymonda Suite

Now dancing with the Norwegian National Ballet, the former Mariinsky principal has just staged a new version of Raymonda Act III in Oslo. This film features interviews with Parish, Yolanda Correa and Ricardo Castellanos, who made their debuts as Raymonda and Jean de Brienne, costume/set designer Martin Dauchez (who also dances Jean de Brienne) and includes excerpts from studio and stage rehearsals.