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As the founder of The Marius Petipa Society, I, Amy Growcott, am delighted to announce that I am now offering ballet history lessons and presentations. More information can be found on the website’s newest page and if you are interested in booking a lesson or presentation with me, please contact me via email or Instagram.
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Hi followers! A new page has just been published and is now available for viewing – a page on Jules Perrot’s La Filleule des fées. More pages are soon to follow, keep an eye on this blog for updates. Thank you all for all your support and interest!
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Hi followers! A new page has just been published and is now available for viewing – a page on Jean Coralli’s La Péri. More pages are soon to follow, keep an eye on this blog for updates. Thank you all for all your support and interest!
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Over on my Substack, I have just started a new series that I have called Ballet History Series where I will post ballet history essays and articles, extra information that will not be published on The Marius Petipa Society. The first of these entries is about the ballet Snowflakes by Anna Pavlova. Click on the
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Hello everyone! I should have posted this before now, but the last few months have been very busy. A few months ago, as part of expanding my platform, I launched a new website under my own name and is one of several places to go if anyone is looking information about myself or looking to
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August 2024 was a special month because my friends at High Points Youth Ballet in Belfast held the city’s first ballet festival – the Belfast International Ballet Festival, in which their students, students from Scotland and Greece and several professional dancers from Ireland, the USA and Ukraine participated. I also had the honour of participating and contributing
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Hello everyone! Today is World Ballet Day and this year marks 20 years since my ballet journey began. And what better time than to reflect on the question, what does ballet mean to me? Ballet is the most beautiful of theatrical art forms in which so much is brought together and creates something that could
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On the night of Tuesday 13th September 2022, a newly formed company, the United Ukrainian Ballet made its London début at the Coliseum. This company is formed of seventy Ukrainian dancers from various Ukrainian ballet companies, who fled their country following the Russian invasion on the 24th February 2022. It was put together by its
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