Spotlight: Carlotta Brianza
This week's Spotlight Saturday features Italian prima ballerina Carlotta Brianza. Born in 1867 in Milan, Italy, Brianza trained under...
#Throwback Thursday: Napoli
This week's #ThrowbackThursday is the Romantic ballet Napoli, or The Fisherman and His Bride. Act I begins in the market. Teresina is...
Tutu Tuesday
Today's Tutu Tuesday features Yekaterina Kondaurova of the Mariinsky Ballet in the Diamonds section of Balanchine's Jewels. - Selene
Spotlight: Mathilde Froustey
This week's Spotlight Saturday focuses on French ballerina Mathilde Froustey. In 'La Bayadere' Born June 8 1985 in Bordeaux, France,...
#Throwback Thursday: Ondine
This week's #ThrowbackThursday is Ondine, a ballet which has two incarnations: the first by Jules Perrot, and the second by Sir Frederick...
Tutu Tuesday
It's Tutu Tuesday! Here's Stanislava Postnova of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, possibly costumed as Flora in Le Reveil de Flore (The...
Special Children's Extravaganza Performance
Today several of our competition students performed at the Special Children's Extravaganza in New Plymouth. We were pleased to be invited...
#Throwback Thursday: Mlada
This week's #Throwback Thursday is a little known Petipa ballet, Mlada. Mariya Skorsyuk as Cleopatra's shade, 1892 (Rimsky-Korsakov) The...
Tutu Tuesday
Today's Tutu Tuesday is Ekaterina Krysanova and Semyon Chudin in Don Quixote at the Royal Opera House, during the Bolshoi Ballet's 2016...
Spotlight: Ulyana Lopatkina
Today's Spotlight Saturday focuses on the recently retired Russian ballerina Ulyana Lopatkina. In 'The Dying Swan' Lopatkina was born...