Once upon a time I was asked to give my music for a project “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes“. They insisted exactly on this music for classical ballet lesson. And see what came of it 🙂 In the original, this music was composed and performed by me for the video recording of classical ballet…
The Mariinsky Theater is better known as the Kirov Theater. The present building, which dates back to 1859, originally housed another theater but was remodeled and taken over by the Mariinsky company. During pre-revolutionary times the theater enjoyed royal patronage and has played host to some of Russia’s most celebrated classical performers. Fiodor Shaliapin sang…
When Catherine Turocy and Ann Jacoby formed the New York Baroque Dance Company in 1976, they were unsure of how audience members would react to their first experience with the peculiarities of 18th-century ballet. What would the uninitiated make of the fleet-footed, vigorous, and sometimes raucous dances of that time period? And what about those…
The Pianist of Ballet – Improvisation in ballet class Now it seems to me that I accompany ballet since I was born. Each combination given by the ballet master immediately ignites in me as sounds, rhythms and accents. I grow together with the dancers, their motions cause in me a response reaction, which immediately through…
The ballet master Juhani Teräsvuori from Finland was in our theater again this week. The ballet exercises which he gave were very helpful for the dancers. I’m showing you (with the permission from the balletmaster!) a warm-up exercise which the dancers did today in ballet class. Sure, you can download the music for this exercise…
Again I’m worked with remarkable balletmaster. This time with Alex Pereda from Cuba. The temperament with which it gave ballet class, has not left indifferent anybody. Photos are not ready, it depends not on me, but you can already see three small video fragments of lessons now. Quality leaves much to be desired – a…
Music may be composed specially for a ballet. Distinguishing feature of the ballet music: it is the orientation on the emotional character and motility of dance movement, connection between scene activity. But a choreographer usually chooses music that has been already composed and recorded. Music also can give the choreographer idea of the future ballet….
