Nouvel an dansant à la Staatsoper Unter den Linden avec Roberto Bolle dans "Cassenoisette" de Bart et au Palais Garnier avec le Ballet de l'Opéra puisant au répertoire des Ballet Russes de Diaghilev.

December 24, 2001

Deborah Bull introduces the special celebration of ballet on BBC 2 on Christmas Day, featuring also Peter Wright's magnificent production of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" and Nureyev's acclaimed production of "Don Quixote". In the afternoon on Channel 4 choreographer Matthew Bourne looks at the history of male dance from Nijinsky to Adam Cooper. The programme explores the influences of some very diverse performers, such as Fred Astaire, Rudolf Nureyev and Olympic ice skater Robin Cousins.

December 17, 2001

Ce soir à 21h dans la Salle Chaillot à Paris avant-première du film "Violette et Mr B" de Dominique Delouche sur Violette Verdy, avec Nicolas Le Riche, Elisabeth Platel, Isabelle Guérin, Vladimir Malakhov, Margaret Illmann, Elisabeth Maurin.

December 10, 2001

Créé le 10 décembre 1965, ND de Paris, réglé par Roland Petit, n'a jamais cessé d'etre représentè de l'Opéra Garnier à l'Opéra de Marseille, du Kirov au Palais des Congrès. Trente et un ans de succès presque ininterrompu.
Succès dus à la légende populaire qu'imagina Victor Hugo à vingt-neuf ans, récit d'amour et de mort.
On verra encore ce ballet à Milan en Mars.

December 3, 2001

On December 7th the Bolshoi Theatre will present a gala marking the 20th Anniversary of Nina Ananiashvili at the Bolshoi.

November 26, 2001

Ce soir au Palais Garnier le Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris se produit dans un hommage à Boris Kochno.
Devenu principal collaborateur de Serge Diaghilev, il écrit des livrets et après la mort de Diaghilev il est conseiller artistique avec Balanchine, Blum et Petit.

November 19, 2001

"He’s the swan that flew the nest, but Adam Cooper is starring again at the Royal Ballet. Cooper leapt over the ROH walls to a wider West End audience with Adventures in Motion Pictures’ male Swan Lake. Since when, this prodigal son has leapt gracefully back inside again. So here he is with the Royal Ballet where he first started, learning the title part of Onegin (a company premiere). Cooper is dancing opposite Tamara Rojo on Thursday." (Nadine Meisner)

November 12, 2001

The Ballet Independents' Group has chosen the timely and provocative issue of men in dance for the BIG's next discussion forum at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 14th. November.

November 5, 2001

Ce soir dans le Grand-Foyer de l'Opéra de Bordeaux conférence sur Serge Lifar animée par René Sirvin du Figaro en présence de Mme la comtesse Lillan d'Ahlefeldt, Présidente de la Fondation Serge Lifar.
Avec Mlle Yvette Chauviré, Prima Ballerina Assoluta, Grand Croix de l'Ordre du Mérite, Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur, Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Charles Jude, Directeur de la Danse, Danseur Etoile de l'Opéra de Paris, Prix Nijinski (1976), Prix Lifar (1988), Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres, Attilio Labis, Premier Danseur Etoile de l'Opéra de Paris, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

October 29, 2001

16 years ago on the 2nd of November Laurent Hilaire was nominated étoile by Rudolf Nureyev.
16 years later he will be dancing "Manon" in Melbourne partnering Sylvie Guillem.

October 22, 2001

Tomorrow the Royal Ballet’s new season opens with Rudolf Nureyev’s joyous action-packed version of Don Quixote.
Created in 1966, this delightful production - never before danced by the RB - tells the story of Kitri, the adventurous peasant girl who runs off to a gypsy encampment with her sweetheart, the local
barber Basilio, rather than follow her father’s wish that she marry the outrageous, ludicrously silly fop Gamache. After romantic and comedy complications, including a splendid sword-fight, tilting at a windmill and a moonlit pas de deux, the chivalrous Don Quixote resourcefully ensures a happy ending.

October 15, 2001

23 years ago on October 17th French dance maestro Roland Petit presented in Paris a dance version of the Tchaikovsky opera "The Queen of Spades", based on a story by Alexander Pushkin, with Mikhail Baryshnikov dancing the complex character of Hermann.
Next week a new version is to be presented at Moscow's world-famous Bolshoi Theatre.
Baryshnikov being no longer available, Petit said he was confident of finding a comparable dancer to replace him. 
The ballet would have to be re-choreographed because the 1978 version was never recorded, he said.

October 8, 2001

Cranko's "Romeo and Juliet" was premiered by La Scala ballet company in Venice in 1958.
After a couple of performances in Wien, Simona Noja will dance Cranko's Juliet tomorrow in Rome, partnered by Gregor Hatala.

October 1, 2001

With two stage appearances as Romeo, Vladimir Malakhov celebrated his jubilee of being ten years at Vienna. On October 4th 1991, the dancer appeared for the first time at Vienna - not at the State Opera House, but at the Wiener Stadthalle where he performed Swan Lake with the Moscow Classical Ballet.
At the Vienna State Opera he performed since then more than 21 roles and choreographed two ballets.

September 24, 2001

On Sunday at the London Coliseum Irek Mukhamedov will star in, choreograph and direct
A Celebration of Ballet.
Adam Cooper and Tamara Rojo will be dancing a pdd from "Spartacus":
"Because Crassus really suits Adam, and Aegina (the courtesan) really suits Tamara."
(Irek Mukhamedov)

September 17, 2001

13 of the world's foremost ballet dancers meet up in Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen for a grand Ballet Gala on Saturday and Sunday.
Johan Kobborg, principal dancer of the Royal Ballet, is the artistic director of the Gala, which marks the end of Tivoli Gardens summer season.

September 10, 2001

On Thursday the 13th the 3rd Terpsichore Gala opens the Autumn season at the Prinzregententheater in Munich.
Beside the Staatsballett Igor Zelenski will dance in Scheherazade with Svetlana Sacharowa, Aurelie Dupont and Manuel Legris from POB, the young star Rasta Thomas from New York, Steffi Arndt and Toni Rizzi from Ballett Frankfurt and others.

September 3, 2001

Du vendredi 7 septembre 2001 au samedi 22 septembre 2001 11ème édition du Festival Le Temps d´Aimer, le rendez-vous annuel de Biarritz avec la danse.
Ouverture par le Florida Ballet dans "Fleur de Pierre" de Thierry Malandain, directeur artistique du festival.

August 27, 2001

Cranko's "Onegin" will return tomorrow at the Finnish National Opera.
In addition to the wistfully beautiful pas de deux scenes by Onegin and young Tatyana, who is in love with him, the ballet contains impressive ensemble scenes.
The Royal Ballet will dance Cranko’s ballet for the first time at the end of November.

August 6, 2001

23 years ago first performance of the ballet »Zorba il Greco«, in the Arena of Verona. Choreography by Lorca Massine, Mikis Theodorakis conducting: the ballet is a tremendous success. Since the premiere, it has been performed more than six hundred times all over the world.
One month ago the title role was danced by Irek Mukhamedov at the Lithuanian summer season at the Trakai Castle.

July 30, 2001

L'œuvre prolifique de John Neumeier est traversée de projets ambitieux. Jeudi au Théâtre de l'Archevêché à Aix "Le Messie" sur la partition de Hændel confronté à l’univers musical d’Arvo Pärt aura la première en France.

July 23, 2001

The Royal Ballet returns to Covent Garden for two weeks as part of the grand-slam summer season. This season's stars include for the first time in history three Italian male dancers: Giuseppe Picone, Roberto Bolle and Massimo Murru.

July 16, 2001

On Friday the POB will perform "Clavigo" at the Baalbeck International Festival.
This ballet to the choreography of Roland Petit is inspired by an early play Goethe wrote. It recounts the story of a lover who favors the pursuit of his career ambitions over the call of his heart.
The original music is composed by Gabriel Yared, Lebanese Oscar-winner for  the music of the movie ’An English Patient’ as well as many other awards.

July 9, 2001

Set on a stage prettily surrounded by crinkled silver foil, "Jaleos" showcase Victor Ullate's full 20-member company. The sleekly dressed, attractive men and women burst with creative energy to breathy Spanish vocals and percussion by Luis Delgado in this decidedly heated affair.
This ballet will be danced at the Carcassonne festival on Friday the 13th.

July 2, 2001

The italian press critics will award Paola Cantalupo, Viviana Durante, Simona Noja, Roberto Bolle and Massimo Murru the Danza & Danza prize in Palermo on Sunday the 8th, during a gala evening in the open air.

June 25, 2001

The Wiener Staatsoper will close its ballet season with a Farewell Gala next Thursday.
Among the guest dancers there will be the couple Kraemer-Tewsley from Stuttgart, the couple Loudières-Legris from Paris, Margaret Illmann from Berlin, Giuseppe Picone and Roberto Bolle from Italy.

June 18, 2001

"Lorsque le Conseil général du Rhône me commanda une création, je pensais immédiatement au couple Brel-Barbara et soudain le Monde du Cinéma vint se joindre à cette Dualité." (Maurice Béjart)
Demain création mondiale de "Lumière" au Grand Théâtre de Fourvière.
Ce ballet sera à Genova en julliet.

June 11, 2001

Spectacular summer season opening tomorrow at the ROH: the Kirov Ballet, the Royal Ballet, La Scala Ballet, San Francisco Ballet will perform one after the other till the 18th of August.

June 4, 2001

The Royal Ballet will be performing in Washington from tomorrow.
In its first appearance at the Kennedy Center since 1995, the company will dance works by its founder-choreographer, Sir Frederick Ashton, including the full-lenght ballet "La fille mal gardée".

May 28, 2001

"What is likely to make Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet wear well is that it is by far the most intelligent and conving production of Shakespeare's story to Prokofiev's music. Its authenticity is the product of
imaginative thought and wide reading both in and around the play.(...) Best of all in the choreography are the dances for the crowds in the streets." (John Percival)
First given by London Festival Ballet on the 2nd June 1977, it will be danced by POB next month.

May 21, 2001

Irek Mukhamedov is the choreographer of a new production of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. The premiere is planned for 25 May at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw.
Stage design is by Pawel Walicki, costumes by Irena Bieganska, and the conductor is Andrzej Straszynski.

May 14, 2001

"Afternoon of a faun", choreographed by Jerome Robbins, was first performed 48 years ago by the NYCB. This pdd set in a ballet studio is dedicated to Tanaquil Le Clercq, for whom the ballet was choreographed.
It will be danced by POB next December.

May 7, 2001

Dans deux jours Nicolas Le Riche propose a Nancy "Passage", sa toute première création, ou l'histoire d'un homme en crise, exclu des siens.
Il fait appel à François Roy pour la partition musicale et à Ruben Altério pour les décors et costumes.
L’argument lui est venu d’un livre d’un auteur japonais, Prix Nobel de littérature, qu’il a lu il y a dix ans et qui lui "trottait dans la tête".

April 30, 2001

Neumeier composed a rendition of Midsummer Night's Dream that has the fantasy, wit, slapstick, romance, and grandeur of the original and, perhaps most impressively, he concocted physical and visual jokes that serve as the equivalent of Shakespeare's play with words. The ballet premiered in Paris 19 years ago on the 5th of May and will be seen again next June.

April 23, 2001

55 years ago on the 24th of April Frederik Ashton's "Symphonic Variations" to the music of César Franck had its première at Covent Garden with Margot Fonteyn, Pamela May, Moira Shearer, Michael Somes, Henry Danton and Brian Shaw.
This plotless ballet, a signature work for the RB, will be presented in Washington in June.

April 16, 2001

Le 16 avril 1984 au Théatre des Champs-Elysées première représentation de "Bach suite".
C'est en assistant à une représentation à Versailles que Rudolf Nureyev eut l'idée de demander à Francine Lancelot de lui composer ce solo, qui commence chez Louis XIV et s'achève chez Balanchine.

April 9, 2001

Onegin received its World Premiere by the Stuttgart Ballet on April 13, 1965, danced by Marcia Haydée (Tatiana), Ray Barra (Onegin), Egon Madsen (Lensky).
Onegin will be given its Company Premiere by ABT on June 1, 2001, danced by Julie Kent (Tatiana), Robert Hill (Onegin), Vladimir Malakhov (Lensky).

April 2, 2001

51 years ago on the 8th of April Vaslav Nijinsky died in London. He created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes the ballets L'Après-midi d'un faune, Jeux, and Le Sacre du printemps. Till Eulenspiegel was produced in the United States without Diaghilev's personal supervision.
Adam Cooper is now dancing Jeux in Rome.

March 26, 2001

On the 29th of March Viviana Durante, Eric Vu An and the Ballet of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples will dance "Cassandra", ballet of Luciano Cannito to the book of Christa Wolf, with original music of Marco Schiavoni and inserts of Saint-Saëns and Prokof'ev.

March 19, 2001

21 years ago on the 24th of March Unesco organised a gala in Paris honouring the great Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso.

March 12, 2001

"Tout près des étoiles", un film-documentaire de Nils Tavernier sur les danseurs de l'Opéra de Paris, sortira en salles dans deux jours.
La caméra de Nils Tavernier a suivi les danseurs de l'Opéra National de Paris pendant plus de trois mois dans les coulisses du Palais Garnier et de l'Opéra Bastille et lors de la tournée du ballet au Japon.

March 5, 2001

On the 11th Vladimir Malakhov will make his debut as choreographer at the Wiener Staatsoper with "A masked ball".
He will be starring as King Gustav and Eva Petters as Amelia.

February 26, 2001

Demain le Carnaval 2001 finira. En 1984 à Paris à l'Opéra Comique et un an après à Venise au Teatro La Fenice le Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris presentait une soirée "Commedia dell'arte" avec "Arlequin magicien par amour" de Cramer, "Carnaval" de Fokine et "Le bourgeois gentilhomme" de Balanchine.

February 12, 2001

"The Nutcracker" set to open tonight at St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater promises to be a stark contrast to the more traditional staging of the Tchaikovsky classic. 
There won't be any of the notoriously sugary feel. This will be a Hoffmannesque production and Valery Gergiev will introduce an additional challenge to the dancers by restoring the original fast tempo Tchaikovsky had intended.

January 29, 2001

On the 2nd of February Sylvie Guillem and Nicolas Le Riche will dance again together in London after the performances of "Marguerite and Armand".
They will be starring in MacMillan's "Romeo and Juliet", a provocative study of love in a divided world and a classic of 20th-century choreography.

January 22, 2001

Le 25 janvier au Palais Garnier nouvelle production de Paquita confiée à Pierre Lacotte, devenu depuis La Sylphide le "spécialiste" des reconstitutions des ballets de l'époque romantique.
Ballet classique créé en 1846, Paquita raconte l'histoire d'une jeune espagnole, enlevée par des gitans, qui sauve de la mort un bel officier français.

January 15, 2001

53 years ago on the 15th of January Etudes was performed for the first time in Copenhagen.
Tomorrow evening it will be danced in London during the ENB's 50th anniversary gala and later in this season it will be danced by La Scala Ballet in Milan and in the USA.

January 8, 2001

Darcey Bussell is expecting her first baby.
She will no longer be performing as the Sugar Plum Fairy in "The nutcracker" at the ROH on Saturday.

January 1, 2001

Guardian Weekend, 1 January 1994:
"It is now almost a year since Nureyev died. The half dozen or so who formed the inner circle of his friends say they dream about him even now."