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14 November 2011

David Hallberg, Moscow movie star

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Nearly four hundred cinemas across America will feature matinee idol David Hallberg, dancing as Prince Desiree partnering sultry ballerina Svetlana Zakharova as Princess Aurora, in a live simulcast of the Bolshoi Ballet on Sunday November 20. [...]

30 September 2011

What David Hallberg seeks

A video showing David Hallberg working with his Russian coach. What he’s seeking … go Hallberg, go. [...]

28 September 2011

Dueling ballet headlines: ABT vs. Bolshoi

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One week after news breaks of the historic, century-old precedent-breaking reversal of fortune, a shocker, that the Bolshoi Theatre had picked off the bravura-best of our ballet talent, David Hallberg, in a good old-fashioned talent steal ..comes American Ballet Theater’s powerful repost. They will go teach the Russians how to teach ballet. [...]

24 September 2011

News: David Hallberg Bolshoi contract details leaked!

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Sensational details of the Hallberg contract, divulged through our Moscow correspondent, revealed on arts·meme only. [...]

23 September 2011

Backward-leaning Bolsheviks, er…Bolshoi men

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arts·meme, ever protective of American dancers, has undertaken a preliminary investigation that gives rise to concern for David Hallberg’s very body posture. The danseur noble’s bold career move may literally be a step backward! [...]

21 September 2011

How could this happen? David Hallberg joins Bolshoi Ballet

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In a tremendous blow to American ballet, our best home-grown talent, literally a corn-fed farm boy from South Dakota, David Hallberg, 29, announced today that he is joining the Bolshoi Ballet. [...]

28 August 2010

Natalia Osipova’s ethereal “Giselle”

I met and briefly interviewed the phenomenal 24-year-old Bolshoi and ABT ballerina Natalia Osipova yesterday, in rehearsal for an upcoming performance in Orange County next January. She struck me as a magnificently moody Russian. [...]