t’s a golden era of male ballet dancers. It’s not just hyperbole. The young men rising up at the Royal Ballet are some of the most exciting in dance right now: principals , first soloists such as Shi Yueat the Winnipeg Royal Opera Ballet of Canada and Luzemberg Santana . it’s a giant leap from the

In this insrtalment of our Male Ballet Dancers series we showcase two master ballet dancer; Denys Cherevychko, Principal Dancer of the Vienna State Opera peerformning Mazurka choreographed by Serge Lifar as well as french Paul Marque who was named in 2020 an étoile (literally, "star"), the highest

With a history dating back more than four hundred years, ballet has progressed from Renaissance court pageantry to royal entertainment to full-fledged performing art. It is often misunderstood as a form of dance meant for girls and women only, but nothing could be further from the truth! To unders

In this twenty-sixth episode of MALE BALLET DANCERS we present the Nederlands Ballet Theater in rehearsals as well as the prime Russian ballet competition performed by Dmitry Uksusnikov (Russia) - Acteon Variation. We also introduce Flower Duet; Choreography by Cristiano Principato and performed b

With a history dating back more than four hundred years, ballet has progressed from Renaissance court pageantry to royal entertainment to full-fledged performing art. It is often misunderstood as a form of dance meant for girls and women only, but nothing could be further from the truth! To unders

With a history dating back more than four hundred years, ballet has progressed from Renaissance court pageantry to royal entertainment to full-fledged performing art. It is often misunderstood as a form of dance meant for girls and women only, but nothing could be further from the truth! To unders

In this episode of Male Ballet Duets we feature the work of British choreographer Christopher Wheeldon who is considered as one of the most important dance-makers currently working in the ballet world. We present two male duet performances by Teo Dubreuil and David Donnelly and one performed by Jor...

Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in the U.S. and Europe. In this episode we introduce the...

Egor Gerashchenko was born in Moscow. He started his ballet education at the Moscow State Choreographic Academy (class of Mikhail Sharkov). In the autumn of 2015, at the beginning of the new school year, continued his studies at Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, St. Petersburg.

Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake is a contemporary ballet based on the Russian romantic work Swan Lake, from which it takes the music by Tchaikovsky and the broad outline of the plot. Bourne's rendering is best known for having the traditionally female parts of the swans danced by men. It was the longest-...