November 28, 2007

Orlando Ballet - "Nutcracker" Time is comming!

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Orlando, FL Orlando Ballet lights up the stage with it's colorful rendition of The Nutcracker coming in December 2007. All performances with Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. The Nutcracker will be danced to the full Tchaikovsky score by the entire Company and will include more than 100 children from the Orlando Ballet School and Patel Conservatory. Under the direction of artistic director Bruce Marks with choreography by the late Fernando Bujones, this production is sure to delight audiences of all ages.

September 08, 2007

Piano Music and video for ballet class

April 15, 2007, By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk

October 28, 2006

Juhani Teräsvuori in Pecs

Video for ballet class

September 23, 2006

Daria Pavlenko

In recent years Daria Pavlenko gave such influential proof of artistic potential, reliability and versatility, which ensures her place among elite of ballerinas. On the beauty of motions, musicality and feelings she is beyond comparison. Her performances in leading roles of ballets like Swan Lake, La Bayadère, The Sleeping Beauty and Raymonda are steeped in the grand classical manner, emphasizing the qualities of choreography and music rather than the technical prowess of the dancer.

Daria Pavlenko's career followed a more traditional path than is common in the Mariinsky Ballet, where stars are now often made overnight. In her case the daily corps de ballet work preceded the more prominent assignments. In her second season at the Kirov she began to prepare her first soloist roles, mainly under the guidance of Gabriella Komleva, one of the most distinguished ballerinas of the previous generation. In 1998 Pavlenko danced Maria in Zakharov's dram-ballet Fountain of Bakhchisarai, the Lilac Fairy in the old Konstantin Sergeyev production of The Sleeping Beauty, and Gamzatti in La Bayadère. At the end of that year she was also cast in Alexei Ratmansky's challenging Middle Duet with Islom Baimuradov. In April 1999 Pavlenko was selected to dance the 3rd Act of The Sleeping Beauty in the Gala evening dedicated to her repetiteur Gabriella Komleva.

In her fourth season Daria Pavlenko, now a soloist, made her debut as Odette-Odile in Swan Lake and danced the second ballerina role in Rubies. During the large-scale Summer engagement in London's Covent Garden in June 2000, she particularly distinguished herself by accepting and learning the lead in Balanchine's Diamonds in less than a day. By also learning Emeralds later that year, Pavlenko became one of the very few ballerinas who tackles with equal success the principal parts in all three sections of Jewels, a rare feat that perfectly illustrates her versatility.

Daria Pavlenko was born in Moscow in 1978. Following the example of her older sister, she went training at the Vaganova Academy in then Leningrad. She completed the full eight-year course with Olga Iskanderova and, for the last three years, with Yelena Yevteyeva. Upon graduation in June 1996, Daria Pavlenko joined the Mariinsky Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet.

September 12, 2006

Baroque dance introduced to a new generation

When Catherine Turocy and Ann Jacoby formed the New York Baroque Dance Company in 1976, they were unsure of how audience members would react to their first experience with the peculiarities of 18th-century ballet.
What would the uninitiated make of the fleet-footed, vigorous, and sometimes raucous dances of that time period? And what about those unique outfits - the heavy costumes, masks and tight corsets?



Turocy and Jacobs needn't have worried. Those who left the company's initial concert immediately started talking. Soon after, Turocy financed a video that would be the first serious look at the process of reconstructing 18th-century ballet. It introduced the company's work to a growing audience and influenced a generation of modern American choreographers. Turocy and her dancers then toured London, where they were awestruck by the effect they had on British audiences.
"Our mouths dropped in astonishment when we saw our name in subway stations all over London. In a land where Monty Python ruled, we were embraced and felt right at home," Turocy said.

In its 30-year history, the New York Baroque Dance Company has been embraced by music and dance lovers worldwide and credited with the revival of 18th-century ballet. Its members have taken steps, literally, to ensure that future generations experience this influential style of dance -- the forerunner of western theatrical dance as we know it today -- by maintaining an active presence in the early dance scene and teaching young dancers across the country.
As part of that effort to reach out to future generations, Turocy and her troupe are now partnering with music and dance students at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. They are engaged in a two-week residency at the school during which they will give basic classes in Baroque dance for the IU Early Music Institute, as well as more intensive, historically-oriented technique workshops for students of the IU Ballet Department. Opera singers will benefit from classes in commedia dell'arte performance practice. All IU music students will be invited to participate in lectures regarding Baroque tempi.

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Source: http://www.music.indiana.edu