Tamara Rojo on being a dancer

Tamara Rojo on being a dancer


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In Being a Dancer, some of the world’s leading dancers and choreographers, working in different countries and across different styles, share their experiences of the world of dance. In these extracts from the book, Tamara Rojo, Artistic Director of English National Ballet, offers advice and insight into her life and career.

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ENB’s Swan Lake 32 fouettés video at the Liceu Tamara Rojo & Isaac Hernandez

English National Ballet Swan Lake at the Liceu Tamara Rojo & Isaac Hernandez

ENB’s Swan Lake at the Liceu (Tamara Rojo & Isaac Hernandez) Els cignes no són animals febles, són animals forts, com Odile. Compartim els 32 fouettés de Tamara Rojo a ‘El llac dels cignes’ de l’English National Ballet al Liceu.Los cisnes no son animales débiles, son animales fuertes, como Odile. Compartimos los 32 fouettés de Tamara Rojo en ‘El lago de los cisnes’ del English National Ballet en el Liceu.Swans are strong animals, like Odile. Here you’re the 32 fouettés by Tamara Rojo in English National Ballet’s Swan Lake at the Liceu Opera House.
Posted by Gran Teatre del Liceu on Sábado, 19 de septiembre de 2015

Speech at the opening of SHOES: PLEASURE AND PAIN


 Tamara Rojo, Lead Principle and Artistic Director, English National Ballet speech at the opening of SHOES: PLEASURE AND PAIN.

 3 June 2015 – 31 January 2016. This exhibition will look at the extremes of footwear from around the globe, presenting around 200 pairs of shoes ranging from a sandal decorated in pure gold leaf originating from ancient Egypt to the most elaborate designs by contemporary makers.

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The Pointe Shoe Anti-Bunion Stretcher by Tamara Rojo is a device for widening the specific area of the enveloping part of the pointed ballet shoes, to facilitate a more comfortable use of said shoes to the ballerinas who suffer from the lateral deformation of the first segment of the phalangeal metatarsal joint forming a protrusion called hallux abductus valgus (hallux valgus) known as bunion. By stretching the satin canvas, at the wings area of the pointed shoes, the fitting of the ballerina’s foot suffering bunion into the pointe shoe is improved, consequently, it reduces the oppression in the bunion, relieve discomfort and helps her to dance more comfortably.

Modern Masters

Sadler’s Wells, London

10 Mar 2015 – 15 Mar 2015

Ksenia Ovsyanick and James Forbat in Petite Mort. Photo: © David Jenson
Ksenia Ovsyanick and James Forbat in Petite Mort. Photo: © David Jenson
Modern Masters honours the work of three of the most influential and creative choreographers of the 20th Century, and brings two new works to English National Ballet’s repertoire.
PETITE MORT
Created in 1991, Ji?í Kylián’s poetic piece, features six men, six women, and six fencing foils, symbolising energy, silence and sexuality. Performed to the slow movements of two Mozart Piano Concerti, the foils slowly become dancing partners, as the brutality of everyday life is revealed. Petite Mort is a quintessential Kylián masterwork, loved by our audience and our dancers when we performed it last year.
SPRING AND FALL
In the same year that Petite Mort was premiered, Hamburg Ballet’s John Neumeier, a new master of narrative and dramatic ballet, created Spring and Fall. Set to the Dvo?ák’s Serenade for Strings in E Major, it is a work for two couples and corps de ballet and takes its narrative from the tension in the music. Spring and Fall is not in the repertoire of any other UK company.
IN THE MIDDLE, SOMEWHAT ELEVATED
With In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, William Forsythe started a completely new school of choreography, deconstructing classical ballet and liberating a new generation of classical dancers to show off their abilities. Set against a bare stage it is danced by nine individuals culminating in a fierce display of technical and physical wizardry.

Coppélia: perfect for young and old alike

We’re rehearsing Coppelia enthusiastically! We hope we will be able to delight our audience.
Coppélia is an enchanting, effervescent family ballet, perfect for young and old alike. Delibes’s irresistibly melodic score is performed by English National Ballet’s full orchestra.
A delicious classical ballet

Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev

Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev

Some reviews

Ismene Brown on Friday, 26 July 2013.

«You almost instinctively describe Nureyev as ‘blinding’, but ‘illuminating’ is much more apt»
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Laura Thompson The Telegraph on 26 Jul 2013.

“The late Rudolf Nureyev would have been moved by the perfection of Vadim Muntagirov’s arabesque”.
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English National Ballet shows its strengths in a triple bill inspired by Rudolf Nureyev.

Hanna Weibye on 29 July 2013
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Swan Lake in the round 2013

“SWAN LAKE” in the round of the Royal Albert Hall

Swan Lake in the round

Zoë Anderson:“On opening night, Tamara Rojo’s Swan Queen had the charisma to fill the whole space”

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Lyndsey Winship, London Evenig Standard:“There’s pause-button control in her early white swan scenes as her demure Odette deliciously stretches out her phrases with elegant assuredness. Later you can feel the adrenaline rising in the room as she spins her way through the 32 fouettés, ending with a sweet smirk that seems to say: “Oh that? Easy.”

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Luke Jennings, The Observer, Sunday 16 June 2013:

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The Telegraph, Louise Levene“Critics spoiled rotten by a life of perfect sightlines in the front stalls found the encircling audience distracting and carped that the sheer size of the Albert Hall made it impossible for the artists to convey emotion. Anyone who has watched their idols from the back row of Covent Garden’s amphitheatre through a forest of craning heads will know that this is nonsense”.

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