November 9, 2008 at 5:53 pm · Filed under dance, new york city ballet, stuttgart ballet, dance photography, photographer, royal danish ballet, PATRICIO, ballet de santiago, patricio melo, les ballets de monte carlo, shanghai gala, shanghai ballet, dutch national ballet, finnish national ballet
Last October, I was at the Shanghai Ballet Gala, I can’t explain how beautiful it was. So many dancers from different ballet companies dancing great pas de deux. From Ballet de Santiago de Chile the guest dancers were the two Principal Stars Marcela Goicoechea and Luis Ortigoza. Our artistic Director Marcia Haydée taught one Master class to the Ballet de Shanghai and it was so good. Well this travel was so nice for me, to have the opportunity to take a lot photos and also see such great city. Here I post some photos and I hope all the winger people enjoy.
Marcia Haydée Master Class
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Bernice Coppieters and Chris Roelandt dancing the master piece Romeo and Juliet by jean Christophe Maillot.
Luis Ortigoza rehersal in Shanghai Ballet studios.
Marcia Haydée and Principal Dancer from Stuttgart Ballet Sue jin Kang in rehearsal.
Marcela Goicoechea and Luis Ortigoza in rehersal.
Lisa Maree Cullum and Lukas Slavicky from Bavarian State ballet.
All the Artistic Directors and guest Ballet Dancers in a press conference.
Marcia Haydée and Principal Dancer from Stuttgart Ballet Marijn Rademaker in rehearsal.
Oxana Kucheruc and Roman Mikhalev from National Opera Ballet of Bordeaux.
Sue Jin Kang and Marijn Rademaker from Stuttgart Ballet in the beautiful The Lady of the Camellias by John Neumeier.
Marcia in Master Class.
Igone de Jongh and Moises Martin from Dutch National ballet.
Petia Ilieva and Stanislav Belyaevsky from Finnish National Ballet.
Bernice Coppieters and Chris Roelandt from Les Ballets de Monte Carlo.
Marcela Goicoechea and Luis Ortigoza from Ballet de Santiago de Chile.
Ashley Bouder and Daniel Ulbricht from New York City Ballet.
Sue Jin Kang and Marijn Rademaker in rehersal.
Silja Schandorff and Sebastian Kloborg from Royal Danish Ballet.
Marcia Haydée. Marcela Goicoechea and Luis Ortigoza with Shanghai Ballet.
Marcela Goicoechea and Luis Ortigoza in rehersal.
Sue Jin Kang and Marijn Rademaker from Stuttgart Ballet.
Igone de Jongh and Moises Martin from Dutch National Ballet.
Marcela Goicoechea and Luis Ortigoza in sensual Carmen pas de deux by Marcia Haydée.
Silja Schandorff and Sebastian Kloborg from Royal Danish Ballet.
Marcia Haydée, Marcela Goicoechea and Luis Ortigoza in rehearsal.
Sue Jin Kang and Marijn Rademaker from Stuttgart Ballet.
Marcela Goicoechea and Luis Ortigoza from Ballet de Santiago de Chile.
All the guests after the Gala.
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July 11, 2007 at 9:36 pm · Filed under dance, student, CATHY, brazil, royal danish ballet, nikolaj hubbe, johan kobborg, roberta marquez
It’s winter vacation here in Brazil right now. It’s just a month long, but it was about time - I needed some rest.
This year has been really busy - hence my lack of posts - and it looks like it’ll get even busier!
Joana getting her make up done by one of our teachers, Flavia
But anyway, in my last post I said I was going to have some performances.
We performed Waltz of the Flowers again in the two first ones, and then we had an event in the place our studio is and I danced Kitri’s variation. It wasn’t that good, needs to be rehearsed a LOT more, it’s not clean either. Plus I was a little bit nervous! But it happens. Now it’s all about rehearsing and rehearsing.
Stella saying hi to the winger!
Yesterday night I went to the theater to see the Royal Danish Ballet. They come here almost every year, but I had only seen them once. It’s cool because they always bring some Balanchine pieces.
They danced lots of things and they had some special guests: Nikolaj Hübbe, Johan Kobborg and Roberta Marquez.
The night started with Apollo danced by Nikolaj Hubbe and the girls were from the company. He basically stole the show, he is amazing. He is so powerful! The girls I found a little bit immature yet, I didn’t feel that they were safe. This choreography is so difficult!
I had seen a video of Apollo (but with Baryshnikov) so it was cool to see it live.
Right after Apollo, Roberta Marquez and Johan Kobborg (both principals from the Royal Ballet - and she is brazilian!) danced Don Quixote pas de deux. I was completely speechless! I had never seen her dancing although she is brazilian, but always been curious since well she was invited to be a principal at the Royal Ballet. Her lines are perfect, and she shines. Wow. Kobborg was just as nice! They drove the audience crazy 
Then the dancers from the company did this short and interesting ballet, Yesterday, by John Neumeier with Beatles songs. Very nice, cute choreography and good choice of songs.
Hübbe then entered the stage again to dance Zakouski, by Peter Martins and he stole the show once again. I was quite happy to see him because I had never seen any NYCB dancer before!
Marquez and Kobborg came back with a short piece from Manon, nicely executed. She is expressive and her presence is pretty good.
Then the Danish dancers closed the night with Napoli (3rd act), a Bournonville ballet. The girls showed themselves a lot better in this piece than in Apollo. It’s such a nice ballet to watch, it looks so much like a party in the streets or something!
After the performances I got to talk a bit with some of the Danish dancers, but the pictures came out VERY blurry. They were so nice!
I guess for now that’s it. In a few weeks Mr. Baryshnikov will bring his company here and I can’t miss it!
Bye!
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