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October 8, 2007 at 5:33 am · Filed under dance, romeo and juliet, r+j, photography, marcia haydee, photographer, PATRICIO, chile, ballet de santiago, richard cragun, marcela goicoechea, patricio melo, luis hortigoza
I love this ballet, John Cranko was a genius The way he tells the history is just great. The Ballet de Santiago is very lucky because Marcia Haydée is our director. Cranko created many ballets for her and now she is here in Chile-such a great Ballerina and Actress. Well I hope you enjoy these pictures, and thanks for your comments.
I took this with my first camera, I remember I was on the stage and running to the the 3rd floor to take it. This is not a digital picture, it’s with a negative, and was the first one I developed in my dark room.
Look how lucky we are, here is Marcia Haydée and Richard Cragun working with Andreza and Luis.
Lidia and Nicolas in the Balcony Pas de Deux with Georgette Tsinguirides.
Marcela and Gabriel, this was the first time he danced Romeo and he did very very good.
Andreza, very nice Juliet.
Ballet de Santiago is a very special company, Marcia always said this company has not just very good dancers, but also has very good actors and that makes this a special ballet company.
Here is Margarita and Paulina in Mercutio death scene rehearsal.
Luis Ortigoza with Marcia and Richard in Balcony Pas de Deux.
Marcia, Andreza and Luis in the last scene.
To me this is a very special picture, Andreza and Luis rehearsal and in the mirror Marcia Haydée and Richard Cragun.
Loreto rehearsing Lady Capulet.
Luis Ortigoza in the Balcony Pas de Deux.
Andreza and Luis.
Marcia.
Marcela and Gabriel, I was her Paris the last time and it is always a pleasure dance with Marcela.
In the stage rehearsal, Richard Cragun, Marcia Haydée, Georgette Tsinguirides and the two Ballet de Santiago Star dancers Luis Ortigoza and Marcela Goicoechea.
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June 25, 2007 at 3:12 am · Filed under backstage, dance, DAVID, american ballet theater, flowers, performance, david hallberg, romeo and juliet, r+j, american ballet theatre, alessandra ferri
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| Posted by David Hallberg
Hello Readers!
One of the most influential dancers of our century bid farewell to the stage on Saturday night.
Alessandra Ferri, international ballerina, ABT principle, and mother of two daughters gave her last performance with ABT in Romeo and Juliet dancing alongside Roberto Bolle. Juliet is one of Alessandra’s most revered roles and something the company and audience members in New York have gotten the chance to see more than once.
Her farewell was bittersweet and marked with many great moments from such a mature, honest artist such as her. As the show was sold out for months, everyone seemed to come out to see her last Juilet, one of the highlights being her most beloved partner, Juilo Bocca.
Here are some shots from backstage as she took her final bows, to an adoring audience.
The company watches..
The scores of bouquets she received from ABT members
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May 19, 2007 at 3:30 pm · Filed under SLOAN, vacation, romeo and juliet, mobile, r+j, shelter island, sunset beach
Posted by Sloan | via mobile phone
Its great here, but we cant wait to come back with our motorcycles when the weather is better.
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May 16, 2007 at 11:42 pm · Filed under SLOAN, backstage, new york city ballet, video, romeo and juliet, r+j, tragiclovenyc.com
Posted by Kristin Sloan
So I made this 9th and final episode for New York City Ballet’s Tragic Love NYC site (9 episodes because it’s NYCB’s 9th full length production) before I knew that the site where the videos were playing would be taken down the day the production was over. (Sad, but you can’t blame them. The cost of bandwith for running all those videos on the site was probably not fun)
Anyhow… fortunately I got the ok to post the videos on Blip.tv and on Apple’s iTunes as well, so you will be able to view the final episode (and the previous 8 episodes) through those links.
This one was kind of emotional to put together, AND to film. I think that after being so engrossed in the making of the production, finally seeing it come together, and knowing everyone and what they went through to make it happen was a very emotional experience. (I was actually tearing up while shooting the hugging and kissing that happened back stage after the show).
Thanks so much to everyone I shot and interviewed. I know it’s not fun to have someone following you around with a video camera, but it was a pleasure talking with you all and I think the people who have seen the videos are very appreciative, as am I. Also a big thanks to NYCB, particularly Ken Tabachnick for suggesting the project, and Siobhan and Joe for setting up interviews and helping arrange all the times that I could come in and shoot. I’m so thankful to have had the opportunity to work on this project and to interact with all the artists in a new and different way.
Enjoy the last video!
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May 7, 2007 at 12:09 am · Filed under tour, travel, press, DAVID, american ballet theater, the met, chicago, first performance, opera house, abt, david hallberg, romeo and juliet, r+j, poster, photography
| | Posted by David Hallberg
In the final preparations of Met season, I am reminded of our winter tour… especially the last stop of Romeo and Juliet in Chicago. With injuries abound, many dancers filled in for others that couldn’t perform. Therefore, leaving me with three Romeos in three days. A feat that I never thought possible, considering it is the hardest male lead in the classical repertoire. Having done that, anything is possible right?
Here you see the red pen correcting, sometimes three times, the casting of one performance. During a season as long as the Met (8 weeks) the “red pen” in an inevitability.
On a lighter note… Just to share some publicity from the posters outside the Civic Opera House in Chicago. Paloma and I in a romantic moment from my debut as Romeo.
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April 23, 2007 at 8:42 pm · Filed under EVAN MCKIE, stuttgart ballet, romeo and juliet, r+j, marcia haydee
As The New York City Ballet approaches it’s upcoming premiere of a brand new ‘’Romeo and Juliet'’, a very lucky dance audience from around the world gathered here in Stuttgart on Saturday to witness Shakespeare’s tragic tale being performed while catching an extremely rare and exciting glimpse into dance history.
Marcia Haydee, one of the world’s greatest ballerinas and an absolute cultural icon in Europe, turned 70 years old last week and decided, along with our brilliant artistic director Reid Anderson, to mark the occassion with an exclusive shindig! It was decided that Cranko’s ‘’Romeo and Juliet‘’ would be the the perfect selection for such an event and when some of Marcia’s many illustrious colleagues from over the years got onboard, the idea blossomed into what was to become a ballet feast!
Sue Jin Kang, Germany’s freshest ‘KammerTanzerin’ (see my previous post), breathed extraordinary life into the role of Juliet. Lucia Lacarra and Maria Eichwald were both meant to perform but couldn’t due to injuries. Sue Jin, however, turned out to be the perfect choice for the occasion. I know that several critics particularly prefer Sue Jin’s dramatic pressence in roles originally created by Haydee and on this special night she was able to share that with three different Romeos!!!!…one for each act! Jason Reilly, Filip Barankiewicz and Friedemann Vogel’s interpretations altogether were so diverse and the three of them proved an excellent Romeo team. I thought it was particularly cool that three very young(though famous) dancers were able to captivate the audience the same way I imagine their predecessors once had. Infact, what made this evening so special was that many of those very idols from the Ballet books took the stage to celeberate aswell! It was quite a trip to have the likes of John Neumeier (choreographic genius and founder of the Hamburg Ballet) reprise his original role of ‘Pater Lorenzo’ and Egon Madsen(ballet star, former artistic director of Netherlands Dans Theatre III and one of the most amazing personalities I have ever met) back in the role of Lord Capulet. (I think Madsen has probably danced close to every role in the ballet…and if he hasn’t, easily could! ) Paul Chalmer(former star dancer and now the director of the Leipzig Ballet) and Tamas Detrich (Kammertanzer and our current assistant director in Stuttgart) went as far as putting their tights back on to return to the challenging roles of Paris and Tybalt and did so with seriously amazing aplomb! Paris has a very difficult pas de deux with Juliet in the first act and Tybalt’s fight and death scenes in second act demand utmost athletisism!
There are so many wonderful roles in Romeo and Juliet and the revered guest stars mentioned above set the stage for even more exciting dancing from some of the company’s more recent talents. Former principal, Marion Jaeger, with one of our current ballet masters, Rolando D’Alesio slipped into the roles of Lady and Lord Montague and current principal Alexander Zaitsev split the role of Mercutio with retired Stuttgart fan-favourite Krystof Nowogrodski.(who whipped out some serious dancing and quite an emotional death.) Eric Gauthier (also adored by the audience and just about ready to move on from the ranks of the company and open the doors to his new contemporary-based troupe ‘Gauthier Dance Company’) injected Benvolio with his usual quick-witted style. Principals and soloists were sprinkled throughout doing smaller roles just to be part of the surreal action that was unfolding onstage! Alicia Amatriain was a glamorous Rosalinde, Marijn Rademaker was a candied carnival-king and Oihane Herrero, Katja Wünsche and Elisa Cabrera had a blast getting back into their amazonian gypsy characters. I danced my old part from the first scene (man with a wandering eye for the ladies with a very stern wife… 
) which only lasts for about 5 minutes but was the perfect role to get back onstage after my long-ish injury. Besides, I wouldn’t have missed out on this kind of festivity for the world….
The character’s I enjoyed the most were the Duke of Verona and Amme, Juliet’s nurse. Marcis Lesins was a character artist with the company many years ago and is sort of a legend as far as his powerful acting goes. His tall, burly appearance was a bit startling to me at first but while talking to him after the show I discovered that he was an extremely kind and genuine man. His ‘Duke’ was so incredibly nuanced and seemed so real! I was in awe. The whole company was eagerly anticipating Georgette Tsinguirides playing the part of Amme because she is one of the Stuttgart Ballet’s oldest surviving ‘antiques’ as she, herself, calls those who are old enough to have experienced the very beginning of the company’s being. Georgette is the choreologist who was there when John Cranko and those that followed created their many wonders here. She still goes all over the world setting the signature Cranko steps and will be turning eighty(!) next year. She is tiny and seems frail at first, but it doesn’t take long for anyone who meets her to realize that Georgette is full of animated spirit! She rehearses and prepares us on a daily basis and she doesn’t mind when the boys lift her…infact she encourages it! She knows every single role in the Cranko repetoire whether it’s male, female…whatever! Seeing Georgette in costume and in action on Saturday night was a thrill for everyone and there were severeal moments where she was this close to stealing a scene..;) Marcis Lesins and Georgette Tsinguirides definitely do not look alike but share alot in their supreme dexterity and command of the stage. We are so lucky to have Georgette with us on a regular basis.
The audience seemed enchanted at the end of the show and the ovation was certainly not short. Some of Germany’s most elite came out, along with polititians, balletomanes from as far as Japan and South America aswell as some of the dance world’s biggest luminaries such as Ivan Liska, Oliver Matz, Steffi Scherzer, Manuel Legris and many, many artistic directors from accross Europe. A surprise appearance by none other than Richard Cragun absolutely made my day. I can only assume that he is an idol not just to me, but to any guy who also happens to have a love for dance.
It was a truly fascinating spectacle to say the least and I can’t imagine anything similar taking place for quite sometime. The Stuttgart Ballet has truly had a glorious past with remarkable people leading the way ever since John Cranko founded it.(Tetley, Haydee, Anderson..) In being given the chance to taste some of that past first hand, we are given the means to an artisctically inspired and exhilerating future!
(Marcia Haydee as Lady Capulet)
Barankiewicz, Reilly, Haydee, Neumeier and Madsen.
Haydee and Cragun
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