melmoth.co is an online archive of some of my more substantial articles and reviews. For daily updates, please follow my blog: melmoth.blog Regarded by many as one of the living legends of the ballet world, Professor Ludmila Valentinovna Kovaleva is one of Vaganova Ballet Academy’s oldest-serving teachers. Her graduates include Diana Vishneva, Olga Smirnova, Olga Esina and Kristina […]
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melmoth.co is an online archive of some of my more substantial articles and reviews. For daily updates, please follow my blog: melmoth.blog Vaganova Ballet Academy professor Tatiana Udalenkova grew up in Leningrad (St Petersburg) during the Second World War and trained at Vaganova Ballet Academy during the siege. She shared her memories of those difficult years in an […]
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melmoth.co is an online archive of some of my more substantial articles and reviews. For daily updates, please follow my blog: melmoth.blog My translation of Vladislav Lantratov’s interview with Hello!Russia. Lantratov speaks about “Nureyev” and the aftermath of the ballet’s sudden cancellation after the stage rehearsal on the 8th of July. The Bolshoi’s decision to pull the […]
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melmoth.co is an online archive of some of my more substantial articles and reviews. For daily updates, please follow my blog: melmoth.blog Late last year, Nikolai Tsiskaridze started writing a column for a Georgian news website. If I’m honest, Nikolai isn’t much of a writer, but he gets full points for the effort and for trying […]
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melmoth.co is an online archive of some of my more substantial articles and reviews. For daily updates, please follow my blog: melmoth.blog “In ballet, everything depends on you alone: on your wits, your capacity for hard work, and your physical qualities. My relation to Matilda Kshesinskaya is of no help to me in this regard. I […]
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