The late rescheduling of programmes caused by Ilza Liepa’s unexpectedly needing a second operation on a knee injury and the lack of a replacement dancer meant no “Cléopâtre – Ida Rubinstein,” Patrick de Bana’s telling of the making of the Diaghilev ballet, on this, what should have been the second (…)
Reviewed by Graham Watts – Wednesday 17 July 2013 Performance reviewed: 16 July Hot on the heels of one Muscovite ballet company (the Stanislavsky) departing the London Coliseum, another arrives; since Andris Liepa’s Russian Seasons programme is constructed around the company that performs at the vast 6,000 seat State Kremlin (…)
Russian ballet stars of Diaghilev Festival are set to enthral Doha with a rich repertoire from world-famous ballets when they stage their first-ever performance in Qatar on October 26 at the Qatar National Convention Centre Theatre. “This visit will be a discovery for us, as it is the first time (…)
More than 100 years after Europe first fell under the spell of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the magic is recaptured by Les Saison Russes’ appearances in France. This time, Diaghilev’s mission has been taken up by the world famous dancer and People’s Artist of Russia Andris Liepa. The programme includes pas (…)
Billed as “Les Saisons Russes du XXI Siecle” (Russian Seasons of the 21st Century), this new festival at the London Coliseum, due to take place from 12th to 17th April, continues the capital’s trend of productions paying homage to the founder of the Ballet Russes, impresario Sergei Diaghilev. The innovative (…)
BRINGING together dancers from the Kremlin Ballet theatre company, plus guest artists from the Mariinsky and Bolshoi, Andris Liepa’s dream project – subtitled Les Saisons Russes du XXI Siècle – delivers an unprecedented number of ballets created by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between 1909 and 1929. Regarded as the Golden Age (…)
