Two decades ago, as Russian ballet companies began to perform in Britain again, part of the buzz centred on their repertory of 19th-century ballets – riches from the old imperial treasure chest that ...

Based on the 17th-century playwright Lope de Vega’s Fuente Ovejuna, Laurencia tells of the wicked ruler Don Fernán, who spots the lovely Laurencia (Natalia Osipova) as she is dancing with her fiancé, ...

Ballet stars Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev, known affectionately as 'Osiliev', are storming London with their passion and prowess. Last week, we reviewed them in The Mikhailovsky Ballet's Giselle, ...

Mikhailovsky Ballet's Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev struggled to make sense of Laurencia, but were astounding in Don Quixote, says Sarah Crompton. Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova in Laurencia, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Laurencia is one of the key works of Soviet dram-ballet, those politically more-than-correct stagings that combined ...

Del 5 al 8 de junio, el Teatro Aguascalientes se llenó de arte, pasión y talento con la presentación del ballet Laurencia, interpretado por la Escuela de Danza Georges Berard de la Universidad de las ...

Vakhtang Chabukiani's Laurencia is one of the few windows we have on to early Soviet ballet, and an era that was fascinatingly pitched between old-fashioned classical values and new, politically ...

It’s set in Spain, based on Lope da Vega’s 17th-century peasant revenge tragedy Fuente Ovejuna in as serious a way as Don Q is based on Cervantes. Ie, the great literary work is a McGuffin for dancing ...

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