In Evidentia, a multi-national production for television, Sylvie Guillem was given free rein to put down on film her own ideas on dance and movement together with other contemporary dancers, musicians and film directors. The title comes from the ...

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(b Tashkent, 26 June 1963). Russian-Uzbek dancer. He studied at
the Leningrad (Vaganova) Ballet School under Gennady Selyutsky and in
1981 graduated into the Kirov Ballet where he rapidly became a soloist.
A powerful but ...

A truly remarkable New Year's Eve in St Petersburg's fabled Mariinsky Theatre, with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky (ex-Kirov) Ballet.

It was at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg that the ballet The Sleeping Beauty premiered in 1890, ...

Sylvie Guillem in Raymonda Solo Final Act Nureyev's Prodution Raymonda for the Paris Opera Ballet

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NYT article about Sylvie Guillem in Don Quixote

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Regarded as the greatest of all the classical ballets, this spectacular production of Swan Lake was filmed live in Russian at the Maryinsky Theater. Prima ballerina Galina Mezentseva gives a memorable performance in the dual role of Odette/Odile, ...

Polina Semionova and Vladimir Malakhov dancing Afternoon of a Faun at Staatsballett Berlin, choreography by Jerome Robbins

 Gabriella
Komleva was a leading dancer at the Kirov Ballet from 1957 until her retirement
31 years later. She was born in Leningrad on 27
December 1938 and studied at the Vaganova
School under the
celebrated ...

Don Quixote’s dance history goes back to a mid-18th-century Viennese production by Jean Georges Noverre, but the source of most modern versions is Marius Petipa’s 1869 staging for the Bolshoi as rev ...

Filmed in 1974 with Kirov stars Gabriela Komleva and Yuri Soloviev. Music by Auber and choreography by Victor Gsovsky. Author: MarloManners66

Darcey Bussell demonstrates part of Odile's solo from Swan Lake.

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