Saturday, July 18, 2009

A photo of Carlos Acosta in Le Corsaire:


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The Royal Ballet are in Cuba; a report from CBS News:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYf4miZSB-U&feature-channel_page

The National Ballet of Canada is reporting a $1 million deficit:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/story/2009/07/18/national-ballet-deficit.html

The National Ballet of Canada, in a photo from Rudolph Nureyev's Sleeping Beauty:


Photo by Bruce Zinger for the National Ballet of Canada

Tony Hall discusses the Royal Ballet's Cuban trip in the Financial Times:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/6f11edde-7260-11de-ba94-00144feabdc0.html

Alastair Macaulay discusses American Ballet Theater's recent Metropolitan Opera House season for the New York Times, and is favorably impressed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/arts/dance/19maca.html

DanzaBallet discusses the coming season for Morphoses, Christopher Wheeldon's company:

http://www.danzaballet.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3024

Laura Bleiberg writes for the LA Times on Ballet Theater's Romeo and Juliet:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/07/dance-review-abts-romeo-juliet-at-the-dorothy-chandler-pavilion.html

The lawyer for the union that represents Ballet Theater's dancers has been arrested for embezzling funds:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/arts/dance/15abt.html?em

Queen Margrethe of Denmark has designed costumes for a ballet:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/07/15/entertainment/e040650D65.DTL

The LA Times profiles Roberto Bolle:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/07/roberto-bolle-ballet-dancer-as-international-superstar.html

John Alleyne has won a lawsuit against Ballet BC:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/former-ballet-bc-director-wins-in-court/article1221625/