| DIAGHILEV - A Life ( By Sjeng Scheijen ) |
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When he died, at 57, Serge Pavlovich Diaghilev (1872-1929) was many things: the most celebrated of Russian émigrés; the impresario of the Ballets Russes, the world’s most famous ballet company; a pivotal figure in the recent histories of opera, stage design, visual arts, classical music, as well as theatrical dance; the hub of successive schools of artistic modernism; the man who had taken ballet from state patronage into the world of commercial sponsors; the most celebrated homosexual since Oscar Wilde. He died in bed in Venice, in the Grand Hôtel des Bains de Mer, on the Lido. |
| PRIX DE LAUSANNE 2010: THE CURTAIN FELL ON THE 38TH EDITION |
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| Prix de Lausanne - 38th Edition (January 26th to 31st) |
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Prix de Lausanne 2010: In the Theatre de Beaulieu from January 26th to 31st, 2010
This 38th edition of the famous competition features a record number of participants, two selected Swiss candidates, a Chinese guest school, photos around town, a special event in a shopping centre, and a change of president. It's a record: 226 candidates from 36 countries wished to take part in the Prix de Lausanne 2010. Only 81 of them have been selected, and for the first time ever there are more boys than girls! Another noteworthy fact is that two Swiss candidates are among those selected – something that has not occurred for years ! |
| A Peace on Both Your Houses: Lovers Alive and Well, By ALASTAIR MACAULAY |
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Secção: “And Romeo and Juliet lived happily ever after.” Efforts to uncross the stars of these star-crossed lovers began in Shakespeare’s day. His great Spanish contemporary Lope de Vega, using much the same sources, wrote “The Capulets and Montagues,” a tragicomedy (with plenty of comedy) in which Romeo and Juliet escape together from the tomb and reconcile with her family in due course. Now, at Bard Summerscape, comes the world premiere of Prokofiev’s original 1936 account of the ballet “Romeo and Juliet, on Motifs of Shakespeare,” in which, unlike the later versions, both lovers are saved from death and given a dance-dance-dance apotheosis. Prof. Simon Morrison of Princeton, who found this score in Russian archives, has restored it, with the orchestration of four passages realized by Gregory Spears from Prokofiev’s manuscript annotations. We don’t just hear the score; we also see Mark Morris’s new choreographic version of it. |
| Meg Stuart’s "Blessed" received the French Prize of Criticism for ‘best foreign performance’ |
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The american choreographer Meg Stuart received the prestigious French Prize of Criticism for 'best foreign performance' in Paris. The prize was awarded for her creation "Blessed", performed by Francisco Camacho and Kotomi Nishiwaki. A production by Damaged Goods & EIRA, which had its premiere in March 2007, at Kunstencentrum Vooruit in Ghent. The “Prix du meilleur spectacle étranger" is an initiative of the Syndicat professionnel de la Critique de Théâtre, Musique et Danse. This organisation unites 140 journalists from France and abroad and was founded in 1877. Each year it honours artists working in theatre, dance and music, who have marked in the past season the landscape in an extraordinary way with their work. |
| Tero Saarinen’s new creation, "Next of Kin", for his own company premiered in Vilnius |
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Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen’s new creation, "Next of Kin", for his own company premiered in Vilnius last May. |
| Letter from Lisbon... to Haifa! |
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PORTUGAL: dancing against all odds |
| "The World of Dance Tries Out New Moves on the Web" | ||||
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