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Serdecznie witam na mojej stronie traktującej o muzyce poważnej! Postaram się jak najczęściej zamieszczać tu coraz to nowe, maksymalnie obiektywne i ciekawe opisy, artykuły, zdjęcia itp.. Oto główne zadania jakie sobie stawiam: Tłumaczenia pieśni, kantat, oper, oratoriów na język polski są niestety w naszym kraju praktycznie nieosiągalne. Postanowiłem nie czekać na łaskawość wydawnictw muzycznych i spróbować tłumaczyć samemu (mimo że nie znam języków..). Efekty nie są olbrzymie, ale zawsze lepsze to niż nic. Zachęcam do współpracy ze mną przy tłumaczeniach! :-) Drugą moją ambicją jest, aby zamieścić na tej stronie opisy baletów. Balety można powszechnie kupić na płytach cd, ale później występują zazwyczaj problemy z informacją - czego ta muzyka jest "tłem".. I tu wszelka pomoc będzie błogosławieństwem. I w końcu opisy i artykuły ogólne. Opisy dotyczące konkretnych dzieł pozwalają na bardziej gruntowne przestudiowanie dzieła.. wsiąknięcie do ich środka. Szczególny nacisk będę tu kładł na opis formy muzycznej. W dziale Artykuły ogólne zamieszczać będę ciekawsze eseje prasowe. |
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ISTA Szkoła Tańca organizuje różnego rodzaju kursy i warsztaty tańca irlandzkiego, tańca szkockiego i tańców polskich. Proponujemy zarówno kursy regularne, jak i warsztaty jednorazowe, o zróżnicowanym czasie trwania i poziomie zaawansowania. Współpracujemy z wieloma doświadczonymi instruktorami i choreografami z kraju i zagranicy specjalizującymi się w różnych rodzajach tańców. Działamy w Warszawie, Krakowie i innych miastach. Do nauki tańca zapraszamy wszystkich: dzieci, młodzież i dorosłych. |
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Royal
Ballet. Just redesigned and rather lighter in look and tone these
days. Overall it is much more comprehensive than before with dancer
details at last added for example. Also the ability to book on-line is
much appreciated. A site that much better supports the new Royal Opera
House. |
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English
National Ballet. A very good looking site from ENB and recently
overhauled, though they are planning to do more yet. Probably the most
overt ballet site in the UK and determined to make a splash and bring
more people through the door. Excellent stuff and just what dance and
ballet need. |
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Birmingham
Royal Ballet. A classic site; not flash but very solid and generally
up to date. Quite a quick load and there used to be some useful 'goody
bags' about the place including video clips, pictures etc. No casting details and the programme of what the Friends are up to seem to have gone these days. A shame because the BRB Friends are the best Friends organisation we have come across - well worth joining. |
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Scottish
Ballet. Not 'flash' but a solid and very comprehensive site with all
the information you need including dancer details. Also includes a place
to post your thoughts on their productions. |
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Capitalising
on the success of their Swan Lake and Cinderella, AMP have a very
modern, amusing and graphic rich site that in part uses Flash technology
- however you don't have to download anything to still get useful
information from this site. The AMP website has always been refreshingly
different and that's still the case! |
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Northern
Ballet Theatre. Here is what we used to say - "A small but very
good looking site. Good coverage on the ballets they are performing,
touring dates (but not in the detail we give!) and background on the
company." Unfortunately it has now been redesigned to use some
Flash technology which tries to force you to download a browser addition
if you want to see anything. We don't think this is a good idea. |
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An
appropriately modern web site for |
| Adonais Ballet Company | A
small company that tours extensively up and down the land. The site is
now very comprehensive and has a good list of where you can see them. |
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Chelsea
Ballet are a charming amateur company that should be much better
known. The site also has some information on Rambert Ballet history. |
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A
content rich site about the Kirov
Ballet and including some interesting photographs. Bob Fisher keeps
the site bang up to date. When the Kirov come near you look here for
specifics. |
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Hamburg
Ballet's site is excellent and a lovely example of how to do things.
Some nice photographs, good dancer and rep sections together with
details of how to get tickets, including on-line booking. Even includes
some details of students at the school. |
| New York City Ballet | A
good looking site that seems to have been created by 'friends' of NYCB.
Looks nice with lots of interesting features including on-line booking
and a small costume section. |
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Blandine.
A brilliantly sad site that every ballet and dance lover should visit. Let the rest be a surprise to you! |
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Sylvie
Guillem Page. Jim Fowler's page of all things Sylvie. Some nice
pictures and quotes from reviews. I know how he feels! I have some links
direct from Sylvie's section on this site to Jim's pages. |
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Nina
Ananiashvili has a ballet site at www.ananiashvili.com. We remember
Nina as a marvelous guest with the Royal Ballet in the early 1990's (when
Asylmuratova also guested - what halcyon days!). She also famously did
the Don Quixote pdd with a young Errol Pickford at an ROH gala; Nina was
brilliant and he held it together ... but it was touch and go at times.
The nice thing was how unstuffy and nice she was towards him. |
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Diaghilev
& Ballets Russes Page. Aside from Sylvie's tribute, Jim Fowler
also has some interesting pages on early 20th century ballet heroes.
Besides Diaghilev you will find pages on Pavlova and Grigoriev and
extensive information on the Russes. Oh that things were quite so
exiting for us at the end of the 20th century. |
| Ballet Alert! | Ballet
Alert!. "For People who love ballet" is the strap line.
Ballet Alert! is a US magazine/ newsletter devoted to ballet and this is
a web site that features some of the content plus areas to interact etc.
What marks it as different are the professional journalists/writers
involved. A nice place to interact and find the answers to in-depth
questions. |
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Richard
Finkelstein's Artslynx
International Dance Resources site is great to drop into for inspiration
and information - lots of links categories that you just don't find
elsewhere. And the This Month in Dance History and Guide to Ballets pages get you thinking too! |
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Renee
Renouf's idiosyncratic International
Dance Alliance site is still growing. The background to it is... ‘to
maintain Ben Sommer's dance-related vision of the verses of Isaiah 2:4“..and
they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into
pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more.”’Now go and wander over... |
| BIG: Ballet Independents' Group |
For news and information about a small independent group, try the Big site - the Ballet Independents' Group. Set up by choreographers (and ex-RB dancers) Susan Crow and Jennifer Jackson, the group concentrates on pushing ballet and dance in new directions with a combination of dance pieces and discussion linked to various dance seasons (such as Dance Blitz). |
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Lisa
Harris for Ballet Class Music. A different type of ballet site with
nothing about dancers!. Lisa has played piano for ballet classes (and
more) in many parts of the world including for our own English National
Ballet. She is currently working in Seattle and this site is very much
about the CDs and cassettes she has made over the last few years. What
sets it apart are the music samples. As an example here is a real goody
of a tune, but I
won't tell you what it is!. All the sound samples are in RealAudio format. You might need to download and install the realaudio player prior to listening to them. Worth it; sites will have more and more stuff like this in the future. |
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Greg Fight's Dance Photography. Greg works for a paper in Florida and these are some of the pictures he has taken of local companies and dance schools. Its not a large site but there are too few good pictures of ballet and he has some particularly charming shots including behind the scenes stuff. |
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BalletWeb.
Jim William's site features not only some nice pictures but also ballet
animation's. To run these you need of the newer V3 Browsers and a
download of Quicktime from the Apple site (Jim gives details/links on
how to sort all this). If it's all too much just concentrate on the
pictures for now.... |
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Dance
Magazine. A pleasant (US) site that is updated monthly and tells you
all about what is in the hardcopy version of the magazine. They have
quite a range and include some reviews of what is happening in Europe
and the UK. They are also starting to use the web in its own right and
have an interesting reviews section and a postings page. They obviously have taste because we were a site of the month of theirs! |
| Dance Pages | Estelle Souche's comprehensive, original and idiosyncratic ballet site. Lots of good background stuff to read including biographies on dancers, ballets and companies. There are also a few choice pictures to look at. |
| Dance Books | We think Dance Books, in London, is the only bookshop in the world that concentrates exclusively on dance and ballet. If you have never been, and have the opportunity, do visit (they are near Covent Garden); I'm sure that like us you will find them very helpful and knowledgeable. They also now have their catalogue on line and do a good range of videos and CDs. |
| CyberDance | The
largest and most comprehensive list of links I've seen on any site.
Nicely laid out and great to wander around, though there are a few more
duff links these days. If you think dance and ballet is not so popular
these days a trip here will cheer you up no end. |
| Dance Links | A
definitive, or as near as you can get at any one time, list of links to
dance companies around the world. |
| Dance!90210 | A
friendly site in California; the place to look if you are out that way
and in need of a ballet fix. Contains a reviews section that covers
companies that pass through (such as AMP and the Royal Ballet!). |
| Electronic
Telegraph Review Pages |
One
of the first papers on the web and covering dance very well from day
one. Unfortunately their last reorganisation (of 10/98) means that the
Sunday Telegraph reviews don't make it onto the web anymore - a real
shame. But Ismene Brown's pieces, be they reviews or occasional
interviews, regularly appear. Daily
Telegraph front page link |
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Royal
Ballet School is world famous for teaching dance. After a long
period of neglect it now has a small but classy looking site with
details of how to apply etc - one of the things we are always being
asked about. Lets hope they can keep it all up to date. |
| Ballet FAQs | You
can find this in a number of other places but here is a direct link.
Nearly everything you wanted to know about ballet (though with a bit of
a US slant at times). |
| Ballet
Newsgroup (alt.arts.ballet) |
The
Newsgroup (alt.arts.ballet or aab for short) tends to be US dominated
and can be more than a little esoteric at times and with lots of junk
posts to boot. An affiliated UK version also started. But we have tended
to give up on Newsgroups generally because of there unreliability in
handling messages; there are times when you get to see some answers but
have not a clue what the question was! At that stage we set up our own
postings page. But many people enjoy aab and you need to make your own
mind up! |
| Dancing on a Line | A
New York site that covers dance as opposed to just ballet. I have to say
that I recognise few of the dancers named but I include it here for its
superb design - very clean and pared down. It will look at its best with
the latest browsers that support frames, Java etc - that also means it
can take a while to load. Do have a look though. |
| Dance Service | Set-up
as a resource for UK professionals - and others - interested in modern
dance. The site is constantly changing and evolving and includes many
useful details if modern is your bag. Well worth monitoring. |
