Paul Destrooper, who is quoted in our post about the creation of OBT’s Firebird and was Prince Ivan in the premiere of OBT’s version, retired from OBT at the end of the 2006-07 season to become artistic director of Ballet Victoria in Canada. He has choreographed his own Firebird. See what he’s been up to… Read More
Your Daily Dance Break: A Vintage Firebird
In honor of our upcoming production of Firebird, check out this video of the Royal Ballet’s Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes, who was said to have been unsurpassed by any living dancer. This is an excerpt of the end of the ballet. It is based on Fokine’s original choreography from 1910. Our historian, Linda Besant,… Read More
Looking Back at the First Firebird
by OBT Historian Linda Besant The original Firebird premiered in 1910 for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Paris. For nearly twenty years, from 1909 to 1929, Diaghilev’s company of primarily Russian-trained dancers performed radical new ballets that gave equal expression to all the arts involved. Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes were among the greatest fruits… Read More
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane!
No, it’s Stravinsky superheroes! Yesterday we had a rehearsal in costume for The Stravinsky Project. Much work still needs to be done in all areas, but it is definitely starting to come together. We had the pianists in the studio for Rite of Spring yesterday which was a lot of fun. I’ve have worked with… Read More
Your Daily Dance Break: Christopher Wheeldon Talks with The Guardian
Check out this video interview (with great snippets of his choreographic style) that Christopher Wheeldon did with the Guardian in advance of the premiere of his Morphoses. Wheeldon’s piece, “Liturgy,” will be featured as part of our Chromatic Quartet program in the Newmark next spring. The best seats for that program will go to our… Read More
