THE INTERNET BALLET DATABASE

Nourieev’s biopic announced. http://cinema.nouvelobs.com/articles/19406-tournages-rudolf-noureev-dansera-au-cinema-dans-un-biopic

ANGEL CORELLA TO RETIRE AS PRINCIPAL DANCER WITH AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE http://www.facebook.com/notes/american-ballet-theatre/angel-corella-to-retire-as-principal-dancer-with-abt/10150762143925027

Polina Semionova signs with ABT.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/russian-dancer-signs-with-american-ballet-theater/?ref=arts

Darcey Bussell becomes President of the Royal Academy of Dance
http://www.rad.org.uk/article.asp?id=580

Guillem speaks about Forsythe and Ek http://fr.euronews.com/2012/05/03/entretien-avec-sylvie-guillem

Sylvie Guillem Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The awards ceremony will take place on 20 June 2012 at Ca’ Giustinian, Venice. http://www.labiennale.org/en/dance/news/12-05.html

Canada’s National Ballet School Announces Partnership with Ryerson University’s
Faculty of Communication & Design to encourage cross-discipline collaboration
and communication between students, faculty and institutions.
http://www.nbs-enb.ca/media/pdfAboutNews_Ryerson-05-10-12.pdf#zoom=100

Starting form 1 August 2012 Kader Belarbi is the director of the Ballet du Capitole in Toulouse. http://www.francetv.fr/culturebox/kader-belarbi-nouveau-directeur-du-ballet-du-capitole-94051

English National Ballet School announced that it has appointed Samira Saidi as its new Director of Dance. http://www.dancetabs.com/2012/05/english-national-ballet-school-samira-saidi-is-new-director/

Pennsylvania Ballet opens a new school. http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20120425_ap_paballetholdingauditionsfornewschool.html

Benjamin Millepied launches a new dance project called simply ”L.A Dance Project” with support by Van Cleef and Arpels. Opening is announced at 22 Sept, 2012 with new Millepied’s piece (music by Nico Muhly), William Forsythe’s ”Quintett” and Merce Cunningham’s ”Winterbranch.” Millepied promised to dance in ”Quintett”. http://www.ladanceproject.com/

This is an industry:
Merger between The South African Ballet Theatre (SABT) – formed in 2001 by dancers after the closure of the State Theatre Ballet – and Mzansi Productions, a classically based contemporary dance company co-founded in 2008 by Dirk Badenhorst (an ex SABT co-founder) and Esther Nasser.
http://www.iol.co.za/tonight/what-s-on/gauteng/ballet-means-business-1.1272824

Dance Open Awards 2012
Мистер Виртуозность – Йона Акоста (English National Ballet)
Мисс Виртуозность – Евгения Образцова (Большой театр)
Мистер Выразительность – Дину Тамазлакару (Staatsballett Berlin)
Мисс Выразительность – Мария Эйхвальд (Stuttgart Ballet)
Дуэт – Иржи Бубеничек (Dresden Semper Oper Ballet) и Отто Бубеничек (Hamburg Ballet)
Гран при – Яна Саленко (Staatsballett Berlin)
Приз зрительских симпатий – Дэниэл Ульбрихт (New York City Ballet)

Golden Mask Awards
Anna Khamzina for ”Little Mermaid” (Stanislavsky theatre) – best female
Denis Savin for ”Herman Schmerman” (BT) – best male
Felix Korobov (Stanislavsky theatre) – ballet music conducting
Mauro Bigonzetti for «Cinque» (BT) – best choreography
PUNTO DI FUGA by ”Dialog Dance” + ”Zerogrammi” – best contemporary
Pro Vos Mueros (in Stanislavsky theatre) – best ballet
Leonid Desiatnikov for ”Lost Illusions” (BT) – best composer
http://www.goldenmask.ru/news.php?id=1560

Olivier Awards
Desh by Akram Khan Company at Sadler’s Wells
Edward Watson for his performance in The Metamorphosis at the Linbury Studio
Dame Monica Mason.
http://www.olivierawards.com/nominations/list-of-winners/

Dame Monica Mason, who is to step down as Director of the Royal Ballet later this year, will be honoured with a Special Award at this week’s Olivier Awards.
http://www.olivierawards.com/news/view/item140011/monica-mason-gets-special-award/

DOMINOS AND BUTTERFLIES

The ballet as we hate it
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Tamara Rojo to be artistic director of English National Ballet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/apr/13/tamara-rojo-joins-english-national-ballet?newsfeed=true