Jeanette Kakareka answers our quickfire questions.…
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Partway through my interview with English National Ballet’s Jeanette Kakareka, we got sidetracked with a conversation about the latest season Survivor (verdict: not so great, but addictive nonetheless) and the difficulties of foam rollers (#foamrollerproblems). If anything, that should tell you something about her personality: friendly, down-to-earth and easy to talk to. She also has a great sense of humour, occasionally documenting the lighter side of life with the ENB with series of instagram snaps entitled Dead Jem, which feature her friend and fellow…
Ballet C&V Ladies Interviews Mental Health
Interview – Ballet & Anorexia: A Conversation with Carling Talcott, Part 2
Posted on May 25, 2015
Part 2 of my interview with Carling Talcott, in which a professional ballet dancer and an adult ballet beginner discuss eating disorders and recovery.…
Ballet C&V Ladies Interviews Mental Health
Interview – Ballet & Anorexia: A Conversation with Carling Talcott, Part 1
Posted on May 22, 2015
Carling Talcott and I come from very different worlds. She’s an American living in Denmark, and I’m a Singaporean living in, well, Singapore. She’s a professional ballet dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet, while I’m an adult ballet beginner who totters off to class once a week. But there are a couple of things we have in common, like a love of pizza and burgers, and being able to find humour in the mundane and the things we love, such…
The American Ballet Theatre had a shirtless party and they forgot to invite Roberto Bolle. This could have been a oversight of epic proportions. But do not worry, mia cara. We have fixed it for you, for Roberto, for the ABT… for humanity.…
Alex Wong seems be able to do absolutely anything he sets his mind to. The former principal soloist of the Miami City Ballet left the company while his star was on the rise in the classical dance world in favour of a spot on hit T.V show So You Think You Can Dance. It was a risky proposition, by any account – leaving a steady job and a potential promotion for the sink-or-swim nature of reality TV. But Alex proved…
Roberto Bolle is the king of dance. The king of shirtless dancing, to be exact. For all of us unlucky souls who do not have the pleasure of watching him dance in person, preferably sans top, Roberto has been gifting the world with many a shirtless selfie on social media. After doing the same with David Hallberg, we couldn’t resist trying to figure out what’s going on in the mind (and abs) of the American Ballet Theatre principal dancer during these…
After months upon months of work, Cloud & Victory’s Spring/Summer 2015 collection was recently launched. It was so thrilling to once again have the wonderful Joy Womack model the collection of ballet-inspired tops, skirts and leggings, and we hope everyone will enjoy it. …
Ballet Photo Sessions
C&V Photo Sessions: Cloud & Victory x the Dancers of Vaganova Ballet Academy
Posted on February 14, 2015
A gaggle of girls cluster around me in the dimly-lit photo studio, waiting for my instructions. Nastya and Sasha have to leave early. “So how about you sit and I shoot you wearing your pointe shoes,” I say. The two long-limbed young women in question pull out a fresh pair of satin pink pointe shoes apiece and sit against the white studio backdrop, shifting slightly as I reposition them. Their friends disappear down the corridor to a dressing room. One…
Ballet Interviews Quickfire Questions
Quickfire Questions – Juliet Doherty
Posted on January 24, 2015
Juliet Doherty talks pointe shoes, pilates and dispenses pirouette tips in our quickfire questions.…
Juliet Doherty is one of the new rising stars of ballet. As many have observed, she seems to have been built for classical dance, with her endless extensions and beautifully arched feet. But in the world of ballet, being biologically blessed means very little without the requisite hard work to learn how to use your gifts to your advantage. And despite a rocky relationship with the art when she was younger, Juliet’s commitment to the art has seen her star…
Despite his prolific body of work, Edward Degas is most commonly associated with his ballet-inspired pieces, from his famous Little Dancer sculpture to his many peintures de ballerines. In the same way he was fascinated with ballet, Degas’ art continue to fascinate and inspire in many ways and forms – from a well-known French leotard brand named after him to, most recently, a bound-for-Broadway musical based on an interpretation of his Little Dancer sculpture. Sometimes you can look at art and…