Dancers from Britain studying and working in Russia

[Amelia]

Moscow ballet: Top of the world for one British student. 

Daniel Dolan, a dance student from Great Britain

http://rbth.ru/society/2013/05/27/moscow_ballet_top_of_the_world_for_one_british_student_26421.html

 

Diary of a dancer: Xander Parish

http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/xander-parish/diary-of-dancer

[alison]

Thanks, Amelia.  There is a related thread somewhere in Doing Dance - does anyone remember what it's called?

[Bruce Wall]

Also wanted to add that the lovely Henry Perkins also studied in Russia.

[aileen]

There's a thread called something like "British ballet students training abroad" which refers to British students training in Russia.

[Marieve]

Fascinating to read Xander Parish's diary, thanks for posting that Amelia

 

Sounds like they work unbelievably hard at the Mariinsky. I was amazed to see that they sometimes have to go back to rehearsals after finishing a show!

 

And it looks like Xander Parish is doing really well there too. I wonder if the Royal Ballet will try to get him to come back now that he's proved himself to have enough talent to dance principal roles on the Mariiinsky stage.

[Bluebird]

There's a thread called something like "British ballet students training abroad" which refers to British students training in Russia.

Here's the link:

 

http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/473-british-ballet-students-training-abroad/

[Dance*is*life]

The Bolshoi holds a summer course in Moscow just for International students (so presumably it's in English). One of my students auditioned and was accepted. She's going for two weeks in August. I'll be very interested in seeing how it turns out and the effect it has on her technique.