By Robert Greskovic Part four in Dance International’s series featuring the personal photo card collection of New York correspondent Robert Greskovic. Here, he compares images from the imperial and soviet eras of Russian ballet. Count Albert, Giselle Danseur noble Viktor Alexandrovich Semyonov graduated from the imperial school in 1912, oddly the only man to do
Part two in our occasional series looking more broadly at movement in life and art By Chris Randle Last March, I was in my first week of photographing and videotaping shows at the Vancouver International Dance Festival when the city went into COVID-19 lockdown mode. Suddenly, there was no dance, no work and no prospects
By Robert Greskovic Part three in our series featuring the personal photo card collection of our New York correspondent After the October Revolution of 1917, the imperial ballet world’s schools and theatres were renamed by the new Bolshevik government as state theatres and state academies. Once ballet troupes began to come out of Soviet Russia