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Nicolas Joel, directeur de l’Opéra national de Paris, en étroite concertation avec Stéphane Lissner, directeur délégué, et en accord avec Aurélie Filippetti, Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, va nommer Benjamin Millepiedpour succéder à Brigitte Lefèvre comme Directeur de la Danse, à compter du 15 octobre 2014. Paris, le 24 janvier 2013.
The V&A has been given unprecedented access to the David Bowie Archive to curate the first international retrospective of the extraordinary career of David Bowie – one of the most pioneering and influential performers of modern times. David Bowie is will explore the creative processes of Bowie as a musical innovator and cultural icon, tracing his shifting style and sustained reinvention across five decades.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Benjamin Millepied, the choreographer and a former principal at New York City Ballet, will be the new director of dance at the Paris Opera Ballet, starting in September 2014.
The announcement, to be made on Thursday morning at the Palais Garnier by the general director of the Paris Opera, Nicolas Joel, will end months of intense speculation surrounding the successor to Brigitte Lefèvre, the director of dance at the Paris Opera since 1995 who plans to retire at the end of the 2013-14 season.
Il remplacera Brigitte Lefèvre en 2014.
Le danseur et chorégraphe français Benjamin Millepied, 35 ans, a été nommé directeur de la danse à l’Opéra de Paris. Il succèdera en octobre 2014 à Brigitte Lefèvre, directrice du ballet de l’Opéra depuis 1995.
RINA DVOROVENKO TO GIVE FINAL PERFORMANCE WITH AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
Farewell Performance Scheduled for Saturday evening, May 18 at Metropolitan Opera House.
Irina Dvorovenko, a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre since 2000, will give her final performance with the Company on May 18, 2013 at the Metropolitan Opera House in the role of Tatiana in Onegin. Dvorovenko will dance opposite Cory Stearns in the role of Eugene Onegin.
Roberto Villanueva, Founder/Artistic Director of BalaSole Dance Company, presents «VOCES,» a new program of ten dancer/choreographers in a broad range of dance styles – including tap, for the first time on a BalaSole program – music choices, and artistic voices, January 26 & 27 at Ailey Citigroup Theater.
Saturday & Sunday, January 26 & 27 (Saturday at 8 PM; Sunday at 5 PM)
Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55 Street
Las dimensiones de la brutalidad en el ballet del teatro Bolshoi de Moscú consternaron hasta al propio ministro de Cultura ruso, Vladimir Medinski. «Yo creía que algo así sólo se veía en películas americanas», dijo desconcertado tras visitar en el hospital al director del ballet Serguei Filin, herido de gravedad el viernes por un desconocido que le lanzó ácido a la cara.
Los médicos intentan evitar que el bailarín y coreógrafo de 42 años pierda la vista. Pero la despiadada lucha por el trono del ballet ruso ha estallado.
English National Ballet has revealed it has teamed up with British designer Vivienne Westwood in a creative brand campaign for 2013.
This season’s brand campaign captures the creative collaborations English National Ballet is driving, with photographers, stylists and designers coming together to interpret themes of individual shows.
Российская премьера оперы «Билли Бадд» в Михайловском театре 24, 25, 26 января
В 2013 году музыкальный мир отмечает 100-летие Бенджамина Бриттена. Михайловский театр впервые в России представит одно из самых значительных и неординарных произведений композитора — оперу «Билли Бадд». На петербургскую сцену режиссер Вилли Декер переносит свою постановку, сделанную для Венской оперы.
“The story of Chanel is really a story of emotions, of images and words. It is not just a history of fashion. It is more a history of feminine behavior. It is a social history by itself.”
Jean-Louis Froment, Curator Culture Chanel