Interview Tenor Jonas Kaufmann: Preserving The Instrument
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Eating Disorders In Ballet
Nessun Dorma from ‘An Evening With Puccini’
Injury Prevention: Understanding Pain
Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe: How Can I Go On
Enjoy Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe on “How can I go On”, from the album, Barcelona. Freddie wrote 12 songs that they recorded together including the opening song for the Winter Olympics in Barcelona, Catalonia.
How To Improve Flexibility
Improve flexibility by performing a few cardiovascular exercises before stretching, in order to loosen up the muscles in the body and increase circulation. Increase flexibility by stretching the legs, quads and hamstrings with tips from a gymnastics coach in this free video on gymnastics. Watch the video below.
Edgar Degas: The Supreme Painter Of The Ballet
In the late 1800s, the famous impressionist painter went often to the Paris Opéra Ballet to watch dancers and draw them, usually capturing the dancers in repose. Although he painted the female body in many other guises—as bathers, singers and even prostitutes, he returned again and again to the ballet. When you see his tutu clad dancers, now part of an expansive exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, you realize the fantasy and detail he poured into those paintings.
Dancers preparing for performance.
Frieze of Dancers, 1895.
Three ballet dancers, monotype, 1878-90.
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