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...aficionados will be disappointed that David McVicar’s production of Don Carlo, new in February, comes back shorn of its idyllic first act depicting the Spanish infante and his designated bride, Elisabeth of Valois...
...The list of his protégés — Michel Fokine, Alicia Markova, Ninette de Valois, Marie Rambert, Bronislava Nijinska, George Balanchine, Leonid Massine, Serge Lifar — reads like a Who’s Who of 20th-century ballet...
...Sonya Yoncheva is lovely as Elisabeth de Valois who, destined to marry Carlos, is constrained instead to marry his father, Philip, devastating both the young lovers....
...There are also two giant George Sherlock sofas upholstered in a pertinent shade of orange....
...The Royal Ballet was given beliefs by Ninette de Valois . . . The Royal Ballet conquered the world with a distinctive manner of dancing and dance-making....
...I also recently had the best meal at ABCV, Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s vegetarian restaurant in ABC Carpet & Home in New York....
...haunting tragedy of the Grand Pas de Deux music written in the shadow of the death of the composer’s sister); to Hoffmann’s original tale; and to the ideals of its very first staging in the west by Ninette de Valois...
...He was appointed OBE in 2001 for services to dance and in 2014 was awarded the De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement. What was your earliest ambition?...
...She even worked with the great George Balanchine. “I adored him,” she recalls with a twinkle in her eye. “He was such a sexy beast. He used to hit you if you were out of position.”...
...Ninette de Valois, already thinking of an “English ballet” (which would become our national ballet), joined Diaghilev’s company in 1923 for two formative years....
...Erin Morley has some brilliant moments as Queen Marguerite de Valois, who vainly attempts a rapprochement of the factions, and Alexandra Deshorties sings impassionedly as Valentine, the lover Raoul wrongly...
...George Balanchine, Diaghilev’s final choreographer, was to go to the US, and with Lincoln Kirstein as his unfailing support, make classical ballet an American art for his New York City Ballet....
...This year we celebrate the centenary of the births of two of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century, George Balanchine and Ashton, who defined the art of ballet for their nations - Balanchine for...
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