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...In 2019, her commitment to her work had been recognised by France, where she was decorated with the Légion d’honneur....
...I’d like to say the clams were quickly followed by croquetas, but I’d be lying. I know I came in close to opening time, but the whole point of “prep” work is it’s exactly that — preparation....
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...And I’d say, ‘No it didn’t.’ And they’d say, ‘Yes, yes, I saw it.’”...
...Tanya Leighton gallery will also show new works from New York-based artist Esteban Jefferson’s Petit Palais series of paintings....
...Costumes too came in for a roasting: he expressed tender sympathy for a dancer who had been adorned with “a headdress like a suicidal meringue”; in a Giselle of 2000, “someone has been doling out moustaches...
...Yet remove the London chef’s striped apron and you’d be forgiven for thinking he was heading to a Berlin nightclub....
...Esteban Saba, founder of the “elevated casualwear” brand Handvaerk, confirms this suspicion....
...“The Basques have the great advantage of rediscovering freedom, of losing their fear,” says Jordi Alberich, former head of the Cercle d’Economia think-tank in Barcelona....
...Vox’s Mr Espinosa acknowledges that “we’d never have had this exposure if not for Catalonia”....
...Ballet’s heroines have been having a rough ride in the UK so far this year, with most of them — Giselle, Manon, Marguerite, Odette, Juliet — ending up dead in their lovers’ arms....
...The latest polls for Buenos Aires province, which contains almost 40 per cent of the electorate, show Mr Macri’s former education minister Esteban Bullrich with a narrow lead against Ms Fernandez, but the...
...But in Buenos Aires province, party candidate Esteban Bullrich was leading by less than 7,000 votes against the populist Ms Fernández, out of more than 9m votes, with 95.7 per cent of the vote counted....
...“I could not understand why a . . . man like Timochenko wouldn’t have spent a single day in jail and could even be eligible to run as a politician,” said Juan Esteban Londoño, a 39-year-old businessman from...
...In New York, he joined the American Ballet Theater and began preparing for his first show at the Lincoln Center — Giselle, with Makarova — while immersing himself in the culture....
...Like Giselle and Le Corsaire, Paquita was born in Paris in 1846 but extensively reworked by Marius Petipa in St Petersburg a few decades later....
...“I think I’d stop if I didn’t think there was something I could learn.”...
...to Russell Maliphant (whose Second Breath has a spectral fascination until a duet involving Alina Cojocaru asserts the dubious reign of the ballerina); and to Akram Khan, whose Dust is a mauvais quart d’...
...As the bill arrives (a fairly hefty £81 for two courses with tap water), we rehearse a brief ballet d’action over who is paying – “I feel very awkward,” he says. But the conversation continues....
...The stamped velvet is something you’d expect to see in a Renaissance portrait, as the very elaborate fabric shows wealth and status, but Giannini has taken out the grandeur.”...
...Giselle was not just about a doomed love affair but about the insatiable life of the imagination itself....
...I knew eventually it would happen, that I’d just stop and wouldn’t be able to work any more.”...
...I performed Giselle as my graduation performance at the Royal Opera House and was taken into Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet at 18. Who is your mentor? My mother has been a natural inspiration....
...Our Nutcracker is in cinemas over Christmas, and Giselle will be live in the New Year....
...A similar story unfolded in the Chilean mining accident, though the company – San Esteban Primera – escaped the same degree of attention as BP....
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