Sunday, December 15, 2013

Ballet's Greatest Hits

I learned about this movie from YAGP and TenduTV and I think it is something you would all enjoy watching over the Holiday break! You can download it at itunes so perfect timing for all those itunes gift cards!! =) If you use my link below a portion of the sale will go towards my training! Thanks and be sure to share this post! Merry Everything! Love, Robbie



Presented by Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), the world’s largest dance education initiative, and subject of the award-winning ballet documentary “First Position,” “Ballet’s Greatest Hits” presents a one-of-a-kind glimpse of ballet from today and yesterday. The film is hosted by “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance” Executive Producer, Nigel Lythgoe, and stars leading figures from the world of ballet. Dancers such as Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Skylar Brandt, Marcelo Gomes, Veronika Part and Hee Seo from American Ballet Theatre, Taras Domitro and Maria Kochetkova of San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet favorites Ashley Bouder and Daniel Ulbricht, Matthew Golding of Dutch National Ballet, Alejandro Virelles of Boston Ballet and Greta Hodgkinson of National Ballet of Canada perform iconic roles from the classical repertoire including Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Giselle, Flames of Paris and Don Quixote. Audiences will gain special insight from backstage interviews with the performers and ballet luminaries such as Alexei Ratmansky, Angel Corella, Benjamin Millepied, Edward Villella, Jose Manuel CarreƱo, Mathieu and Denys Ganio, Matthew Bourne, Susan Jaffe and many others. See them dance, hear them talk and feel their passion in a unique dialogue between ballet’s history and its present.

Director: Clemente D'Alessio

Producers:

Larissa Saveliev
Clemente D'Alessio
TenduTV
Youth America Grand Prix
Matthew Bledsoe

Dancers/Actors:

Alejandro Virelles
Edward Villella
Daniel Ulbricht
Hee Seo
Alexei Ratmansky
Joseph Phillips
Wendy Perron
Veronika Part
Benjamin Millepied
Nigel Lythgoe
Maria Kochetkova
Susan Jaffe
Greta Hodgkinson
Marcelo Gomes
Matthew Golding
Mathieu Ganio
Denys Ganio
Alessandra Ferri
Taras Domitro
Angel Corrella
Misty Copeland
Jose Manuel Carreno
Leslie Browne
Skylar Brandt
Isabella Boylston
Matthew Bourne
Ashley Bouder
Lawrence Bender
Stella Abrera

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Tamara Rojo speaking at Prix de Lausanne on how to choose a company and a school and much more!