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Tuesday, 2 August 2005

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Topic: BALLET
The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre will use
recorded music for its five shows next season
because it will save the financially struggling theatre
more than half a million dollars,
theatre officials said. So why pay full price for half the experience?
...LINK to complete news story



Friday, 29 July 2005

Topic: BALLET
[RFE]Wrapping up the first leg of its month-long U.S. tour, Russia's Bolshoi Ballet has mostly drawn rave reviews in the U.S. media. For thousands of ballet aficionados in the United States, the Bolshoi has held a special place in American dance history ever since the troupe's first U.S. tour in 1959. The Bolshoi, now led by the young and innovative choreographer Aleksei Ratmanskii, is performing in four U.S. cities after a five-year hiatus. Along with the classics such as "Don Quixote" and "Spartacus," the troupe is staging experimental works like "The Bright Stream," a Dmitrii Shostakovich ballet denounced by Stalin in 1935.
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Tuesday, 26 July 2005

Topic: BALLET
Given the upheavals that have been taking place at the Kirov,
it may seem timid to be opening a major London season with Swan Lake, in a production,
what's more, that dates back 50 years and looks it.
...LINK to complete news story



Wednesday, 20 July 2005

Topic: BALLET
Like some mighty machine, clanking and groaning, the Bolshoi Ballet lumbered into the Metropolitan Opera House on Monday night, its first visit in 18 years to the home it used to haunt, at the old Met and the new, from 1959 through the 1970's.
...LINK to complete news story



Thursday, 14 July 2005

Topic: BALLET
Things didn't go well for the opening night of San Francisco Ballet's Program 2 at Les Etes de la Danse de Paris festival.
...LINK to complete news story



Friday, 17 June 2005
1961: Russian dancer in freedom dash
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Topic: BALLET
Principal dancer of the Kirov Ballet, Rudolf Nureyev, has broken free from Russian embassy guards at a Paris airport and requested asylum in France.

...LINK to ON THIS DAY 17 JUNE 1961.



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