Tag Archives: Coppélia

Year in Review: The Top 10 Dance Moments of 2011

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Ryan Wenzel

This was only my second year watching dance, but it was a productive and deeply satisfying one: I’ve logged 112 performances (with three more scheduled) and have watched more than a few dance films. Here, in my last post of … Continue reading →

Posted in American Ballet Theatre, Ballet, BAM, Contemporary Dance, Film, George Balanchine, Joyce Theater, Mark Morris, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Modern Dance, New York City Ballet, New York City Center, New York Live Arts, Postmodern Dance | Tagged 3D dance documentary, 92nd Street Y, Agon, Alina Cojocaru, American Balle, Apollo, Balanchine Black & White Week, ballet, Beijing, Black Swan, Café Müller, Chase Finlay, Concerto Barocco, Coppélia, CRWDSPCR, Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group, Cunningham RUGs, Darren Aronofsky, Duets, Eiko & Koma, Episodes, Fall for Dance, Festival Dance, flamenco, George Balanchine, Girl Talk, Girl Walk // All Day, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Hummel, Joan Acocella, Joe's Pub, Kontakthof, Le Sacre du Printemps, Legacy Tour, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center Theater, Maple Leaf Rag, Mariinsky Ballet, Mark Morris, Mark Morris Dance Center, Mark Morris Dance Group, Martha Graham, Martha@...The 1963 Interview, Merce Cunningham, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Metropolitan Opera House, modern dance, Mostly Mozart Festival, Natalia Osipova, New York City Ballet, New York City Center, New York Live Arts, Noche Flamenca, Ohad Naharin, Out of Doors Festival, Paul Milstein Pool, Pina, Pina in 3D, Pond Way, postmodern dance, Richard Alston, Richard Alston Dance Company, Richard Move, Robert Wilson, Rose Adagio, Roughcut, Royal Ballet of London, Royal Danish Ballet, Snow on the Mesa, Soledad Barrio, Square Dance, Steve Reichless, subway pole dance, tanztheater, Tanztheater Wuppertal, The Four Temperaments, The Sleeping Beauty, Three to Max, Trisha Brown, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Vollmond, Water, Wim Wenders | 4 Comments

Magic and Mad Science at the Met: Natalia Osipova & Daniil Simkin in American Ballet Theatre’s Coppélia

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Ryan Wenzel

Coppélia, the 19th-century ballet about an eccentric inventor and the hullabaloo caused by his eerie life-sized dolls, has been called a foil to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein because it shows a sunnier side of mad science. Unlike in Frankenstein, however, nothing … Continue reading →

Posted in American Ballet Theatre, Ballet | Tagged American Ballet Theatre, ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Coppélia, Coppelius, Daniil Simkin, Frankenstein, Franz, Hee Seo, Lincoln Center, mad science, Mary Shelley, Natalia Osipova, Swanilda | Leave a comment

Limitless Potential & Empty Flash: Ballet Nacional de Cuba Performs the Classics at BAM

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Ryan Wenzel

Before their season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last week, the Ballet Nacional de Cuba hadn’t performed in New York for eight years. Lengthy absences aren’t uncommon with foreign companies (the Danes return this week after 23 years), but … Continue reading →

Posted in Ballet | Tagged Alicia Alonso, ballet, Ballet Nacional de Cuba, BAM, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Coppélia, Cuban National Ballet, Don Quixote, Giselle, Gottschalk Symphony, Grettel Morejón, Osiel Gounod, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Coppélia

Year in Review: The Top 10 Dance Moments of 2011

Magic and Mad Science at the Met: Natalia Osipova & Daniil Simkin in American Ballet Theatre’s Coppélia

Limitless Potential & Empty Flash: Ballet Nacional de Cuba Performs the Classics at BAM

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