Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, the Triadic Ballet First Staged by Oskar Schlemmer in 1922
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BALLET DANCERS
La Scala Ballet returns to Paris with Ratmansky’s Swan Lake
After the success in Milan before the summer, La Scala now takes Alexei Ratmansky’s Swan Lake to Paris for six performances at the Palais des Congrès. The production was coproduced with the Opernhaus in Zurich, where it had its premiere in February of this year.
Last year, the company took Giselle to Paris to great acclaim – Le Figaro: “Le Ballet de la Scala embrasse Giselle” – and if there is an audience who can fully appreciate Ratmansky’s work on Swan Lake, it is the French.
La Scala’s own orchestra will be playing for the opera in Milan, so the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Miskolc will accompany the dancers in Paris, conducted by Rossen Milanov.
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7 Things To Remember In Phases Of Uncertainty In Your Dance Life
1. Life is change
I know that it may seem convenient to think that one day we know who we are, maybe after a certain number of performances we have done or pieces we have choreographed. But it’s – of course – not that easy.
2. Everybody goes through this
You think you are the only person who experiences these insecurities– maybe because you are not good enough? No.
3. Change your perspective
It seems like the moment we are in this insecure state of being we want to get out of it as soon as possible– perceiving this transitional period as something negative. But what if those times are actually the best?
4. Don’t compare yourself to others
Everybody is on a different journey. So don’t compare yourself to others in your class or company. They are where they are and you are where you are.
5. Don’t judge anything
Speaking about not comparing you should also not judge anything – yourself, your feelings, other people. Accept everything and tell yourself it’s okay to feel whatever you feel.
6. Go with the flow
This state won’t last forever. It is just a transitional path that takes your dancing to a new, higher level. Also, life never runs linear. You might have to take three steps back in order to move four steps forward.
7. Don’t take anything too seriously
And finally, do not take the situation or yourself too seriously. Of course we are prone to a sensation of “world weariness” if everything seems to be uncontrollably floating in space.
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Remembering Yvette Chauviré
The Times remembered her first appearance with the young Nureyev:
Yvette Chauviré was one of the most dazzling and gracious dancers of the 20th century and the finest French ballerina of her generation. Rudolf Nureyev, unable to leave Leningrad, yearned to appear with her in Giselle. After his defection the French government refused to allow them to perform the work for fear of upsetting the Russians. Thus it was London audiences who, in 1962, first saw them together.
Where Galina Ulanova had brought to Giselle an air of peasant tragedy and Alicia Markova a sense of fragile romanticism, Chauviré offered a more refined calculation. “Her acting, balanced and thoughtful, hardly permitted a gesture out of place,” wrote a Times critic of that appearance, adding that in the second act “with her remote pallor and impassive dedication, she was like love carved in alabaster”.
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