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21 September 2011

What makes a balletomane? A lean.

hallberg, osipova

How to know if or if not you are balletomane. Just look at a photo of David Hallberg. [...]

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. [...]

23 January 2011

Polina Semionova, one of seven powerful female dancers of “Reflections”

semionova, in zanella's srauss ballet

Semionova is divine, she’s got a long back, long limbs and absolutely spectacular feet. A revelation to be in the same room as her. [...]

20 January 2011

Cold War rekindled with opening of Valley Performing Arts Center

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The San Fernando Valley presents a top American pairing, Gillian Murphy and Ethan Stiefel, at the spanking new Valley Performing Arts Center at California State University at Northridge. [...]

13 January 2011

OCPAC reborn as Segerstrom Center for the Arts

osipova, vasiliev, bisset

On the cusp of its 25th anniversary, Orange County Performing Arts Center, living testimony to privatization in the art world (no public funds involved in its development or maintenance, and this is a point of pride in Orange County), dropped its public name and has been reborn as Segerstrom Center for the Arts. [...]

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. [...]