Amelia Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Royal Ballet & English National Ballet dancers in Bilateral UK-Russia Year of Culture 2014 Bilateral UK-Russia Year of Culture 2014 will be marked in Olympic Sochi with the performance of the principal dancers with the Royal Opera House and the English National Ballet. http://balletnews.co.uk/royal-ballet-english-national-ballet-dancers-in-bilateral-uk-russia-year-of-culture-2014/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minxette Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Are openly gay dancers allowed to participate without being abused...? Serious question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Bilateral UK-Russia Year of Culture 2014 will be marked in Olympic Sochi with the performance of the principal dancers with the Royal Opera House and the English National Ballet. Not to mention even starrier names from the Russian ballet scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 (edited) Diana Vishneva is appearing in the opening ceremony today. Coverage on TV kicks off around 3pm but if anyone knows where in the programme she is likely to appear, do share, as I don't relish the prospect of sitting through a parade of giant cuddly bears with perhaps a few ICBM transporters thrown in for nostalgia.. updated: the timing of her latest instagram pic suggests she's on early in the proceedings Edited February 7, 2014 by Quintus 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted February 7, 2014 Author Share Posted February 7, 2014 SOME information about ballet in Sochi from Dancing Times: http://www.dancing-times.co.uk/news/item/1427-vasiliev_in_winter_olympics_opening_ceremony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsomerset Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Does anyone know whether the gala is being recorded and will be shown in the UK? The opening ceremony contained some dancing but very little 'ballet' and the merest glimpse of Zacharova & Vasiliev. More of Vishneva but I would not have known it was her unless the commentator had told me. The ceremony itself was very spectacular and very, very well done. I thought the commentary excellent too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Still hoping to see it at some point!! I hope the tv coverage will be reasonable for the ice skating this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl H Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 I had forgotten about the Olympics and turned the TV on about 5.30pm just in time to see Ivan Vasiliev doing something amazing, so decided to watch the rest, thought it was all very artistic paying particular attention to Russian music and art, liked the sequence to Swan Lake music but wouldn't known it was Diana Vishneva, I can now see it was as there is a photo of her on the front page of today's Times. There is good coverage of the ice skating, next week's Radio Times has a booklet included, the highlights are on BBC2 at around 5pm, and full coverage on the red button at about 3pm. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Thanks Beryl H just love the ice skating. Some years you get all the short programmes and preliminary bits and some years lucky to find the final pieces without having to record the whole of the games going on between 2 and 6 in the morning!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Enjoyed seeing ballet included in the Opening Ceremony. I thought the Swan Lake section worked well visually- particularly the crane shots. The War & Peace section was charming. I hope it was a sprung floors so no one picked up an injury as they were dancing their hearts out . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveclassics Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 (edited) The entire opening ceremony (4 hours) is now available on BBC's iPlayer for those with the endurance... If I have the time I will watch it and give the times of the ballet bits. Ed to add last comment. Edited February 8, 2014 by loveclassics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helpop Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 I made it around 2hr 20 mins on the iPlayer version for War & Peace. Swan Lake section was a lot later on - just after the speeches, if I remember correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted February 9, 2014 Author Share Posted February 9, 2014 I found a detailed BBC Day-by-day guide to the Winter Olympics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-olympics/25763228 Here is a link to an amazing figure skating by the youngest participant in Sochi Olympics - 15 y.o. Julia Lipnitskaya: http://video.vesti.ua/sport/833-neverojatnoe-vystuplenie-15-letnej-rossijanki-v-sochi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted February 9, 2014 Author Share Posted February 9, 2014 (edited) For those who missed the ballet scene in the Opening Ceremony: http://balletoman.com/1260-the-first-ball-of-natasha-rostova-episode-from-the-novel-of-leo-tolstoy-war-and-peace-2014.html The first ball of Natasha Rostova (Episode from the novel of Leo Tolstoy War and Peace) Svetlana Zakharova - Natasha Rostova Vladimir Vasiliev - Natasha's father Danila Korsuntsev - Andrei Bolkonsky Alexander Petukhov - Pierre Bezukhov Ivan Vasiliev - Hero of War of 1812 And this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-olympics/26112522 Edited to add a link. Edited February 9, 2014 by Amelia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Thank you very much for posting those links, Amelia. A spectacular performance! Were they all Bolshoi dancers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 And what an amazing skate from young Julia....stunning! I've just watched it twice! Thank you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I felt it was curiously free from emotion. Her European performance last month was much more powerful. My eldest wondered if she was inhibited by the fear of making mistakes in front of the home and very partisan crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 That wouldn't surprise me.....and of course, being so young, I think the artistic, emotional aspect of her skating has yet to fully emerge. When it does, there will be no beating her for a long while I shouldn't think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 Several photographs from the Russian edition of “Tatler”, with some recognisable faces: http://www.tatler.ru/vash_vihod/304030_sochi2014_zvezdnie_kadri_s_otkritiya_olimpiadi.php#p=304042; A photo of the final parade at the end of the concert of Russian and British dancers: http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9114/55981814.95/0_b9033_1c4e3489_-1-orig How many faces can we guess? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 Forget Medals, Sochi's Olympians Vie for Puppy Love U.S. Athletes at Winter Games Plan to Take Home Stray Dogs http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303491404579391200042676812?mod=e2fb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Just caught a clip from the closing ceremony of the Games which featured a further ballet sequence. It seemed to be reflecting ballets created by Russians - I glimpsed costumes from Firebird, Spectre de la Rose and the Dying Swan. Does anyone know who was dancing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted February 23, 2014 Author Share Posted February 23, 2014 (edited) Just caught a clip from the closing ceremony of the Games which featured a further ballet sequence. It seemed to be reflecting ballets created by Russians - I glimpsed costumes from Firebird, Spectre de la Rose and the Dying Swan. Does anyone know who was dancing? “Sheherazade”: Golden Slave - Denis Rodkin (Bolshoi), Zobeide - Alisa Sodoleva (Mariinsky) “The Dying Swan” - Maria Semenyachenko (Bol) “La Spectre de la rose” - Anton Korsakov (Mar) ? “The Firebird” - have no idea. Diaghilev - Yuri Smekalov (Mar) I also saw Anastasia Kolegova’s face (Mar) among soloists. A big ballet gala-concert took place in Sochi last night. Among those who took part were Zakharova, Polunin, Zagrebin, Ryzhkova, Sarafanov, Bondareva and other Russian dancers. There were also dancers there from New York and Germany http://buro247.ru/culture/theatre/svetlana-zakharova-i-zvezdy-mirovogo-baleta-v-soch.html Edited to add the link. Edited February 23, 2014 by Amelia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Thank you so much Amelia. It looked to be a lovely spectacle. Hopefully, it will be on YouTube shortly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 The Firebird was danced by Anastasia Kolegova and the Dying Swan Maria Semenyacenko (Bolshoi) You can watch the closing ceremony here http://www.gorin.jp/highlight/20140223.html (if there is not a geo-block) which is an official site of Japanese broadcasters. The ballet scene is 6th movie on the right column. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted February 24, 2014 Author Share Posted February 24, 2014 Many beautiful photos from the Closing Ceremony. Ballet photos (Rodkin, Sodoleva, Kolegova and others) are in the second half of the batch: http://vladimir-krm.livejournal.com/1323871.ht Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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