Nikolai Tsiskaridze — photo by Ilya Grigoriev/RIA Novosti
Forget the Royal Ballet School or the The School of American Ballet, Nikolai Tsiskaridze says there are only three real ballet schools in the world: the Paris Opera Ballet School, the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and the Vaganova Ballet Academy, which he is currently running.
I always said there are only three schools in the world: if you want to be a real ballet artist, you must train in Paris, St Petersburg or Moscow. That’s it! These are the three main centres for ballet culture,
Interfax reported him as saying.
Tsiskaridze — who will shortly return to the stage as Widow Simone in Ashton’s La fille mal gardée at the Mikhailovsky Theatre — went on to say,
Graduates at the Vaganova Ballet Academy have no problems in finding employment.… [continue reading]
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