Tag: ballet
Matthew Bourne’s brilliant ballet SWAN LAKE is BACK
The multi-award winning openly gay British choreographer and director Sir Matthew Bourne first staged his male version of SWAN LAKE at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London in 1995. Overnight it converted thousands of unsuspecting men and women everywhere into balletomanes. It became the longest running ballet in London’s West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best…
Myles Thatcher : exploring gender binaries through Dance.
San Francisco Ballet dancer Myles Thatcher is one of 12 of the most innovative international choreographers who have been given the opportunity to create ballets for UNBOUND a Festival of New Works that the SF ballet is running from April 20th to May 9th. Thatcher’s ballet is a new piece called OTHERNESS which explores gender…
The Trocs: Live on Stage or at Home on your Screen
Now Florida can see the legendary all-male ballet troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo on stage and on the screen. This very talented American all-male drag ballet corps which parodies the conventions and clichés of romantic and classical ballet are on tour and playing at several venues in the State including the Adrienne Arsht Center…
Portrait of a Dancer : Steven McRae
Royal Ballet Principal dancer Steven McRae has another somewhat surprising passion that he loves equally as much as dance viz motor racing. He says they share elements of precision, danger and adrenaline. So when Australian McRae talks about his love of ‘drag’ he actually means motor sports and not female impersonators. In this short video, directed…
Just Dance : Tempest
Paris-based filmmaker Julien Pujol made this very striking wee film with Germain Louvet one of the stars of the Paris Opera Ballet. With its Wagnerian score the creative director Delphine Roche called it ‘Tempest’ as she said the storm is a powerful motif, one that is repeatedly present in the history of painting, literature and…
