Hi everyone. Once again one a half months passed since I last wrote. Many things (as always) happened, one of them being our ABT tour to Moscow, Russia. We premiered the new Benjamin Millepied ballet TROIKA, which we’ll also perform at the MET this summer.
So, well, we had a rehearsal period before Moscow, then the tour and then a week off, in which I managed to take a much needed metaphorical breath before we plunged into the current rehearsal period, which lasts for 5 weeks and then adjuncts to our MET season. After the MET season we’ll go straight to Los Angeles to perform for a week at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion and then for two weeks to Japan.
Exciting new debut and roles this season include Basilio in Don Quixote (first time with ABT), Franz in Coppelia, ‘The Boy with the matted hair’ in Tudor’s Shadowplay, ‘the classical ballet dancer’ in Ratmasky’s Bright Stream and the aforementioned Troika from Millepied. Our opening night at the Metropolitan Opera takes place on May 16th and we perform through July 9th. Check out ABT’s Calendar in case you will be or planning to be in the city during that time.
Speaking of Shadowplay, I’ll be dancing in Mr. Baryshnikov’s costume.
If you missed my twitter posts check these pics out:
Besides all of that I am seriously considering going back to (academic) school and starting the LEAP program to, at some point, achieve a Bachelor’s degree for Performing Arts…oh well, we’ll see.
…And as promised, here are is the Moscow album. Click on the small picture below to go to the page with the pictures. I updated the gallery function of the website, which changed the way the galleries display.
And as always cheers.
17
Apr 2011
Hi.
Currently I’m connecting to a flight in Warsaw from Paris to Moscow, so I quickly uploaded the promised Japan pics. Better late than never, right? Some ‘…of the day’ will be following in the next days if and when I find the time in Moscow.
Paris was a lot of fun, 3 shows at the Théâtre des Champs Élysées dancing with Yana Salenko. In Moscow I’ll be dancing with Mathilde Froustey.
Enjoy the photos and as always. Cheers.
24
Sep 2010
Well, what can I say. I am sitting here at 4am, packing for my various trips and cannot sleep… We are traveling tomorrow with ABT to LA and then I am off to various other places on the globe, but let me first recollect my experiences here in New York.
The season at the Metropolitan Opera, which always lasts 2 months in the year in the summer here in the currently hot and humid New York, is on the one side my favorite time of the year… on the other side I feel like all of us dancers at ABT definitely grow a couple of extra gray hairs in the process.
I feel extremely privileged to perform on such a special stage in front of up to 4000 viewers each night. Every week we perform different ballets, which means we rehearse one ballet and perform another one (or even various roles) in the evening (which differs from the usual European system…) To a certain degree there are times when everyone is on edge, physically and of course mentally. To put it in concrete terms, I performed in 11 different things in the course of this season. In the middle of it I suffered a minor ankle injury (from which I am still slightly recovering). I cried… I laughed… and I felt every and anything in between.
Nevertheless it is a special kind of sensation (and I’m trying now not to be too clichée 
) to be finished with the season. When it begins it seems it’s never-ending. When it ends, it seems like the time flew by like nothing.
To be honest I feel I cannot express myself in words well enough. I’m not a words person. I appreciate the written word, but am incapable of creating something worth of what I am trying to say. I better stop and go to sleep. Enjoy the pictures. They hopefully capture a teeny-tiny-little bit of my life.
No more, no less.
14
Jul 2010
Here are some more or less interesting things for you to know:
- Signed, used, old, stinky, hole-y (that means with holes in them haha), personal ballet slippers which I’ve worn onstage or in the studio are being sold at ABT’s website. They are 75$ a pair and proceeds benefit ABT and The Dancers’ Emergency Fund
- I bought a Panasonic Lumix GF1 camera, so you can expect photos from my trips abroad here on the blog…
- I updated the schedule and the press section of my website…Resume section to follow…
- My next stops are the Dance Open Festival in St. Petersburg on April 2nd, then my Fancy Free debut and a couple of Swan Lakes in Chicago and then the closing gala at the X Mariinsky Ballet Festival again in St. Petersburg
- Oh and all the wonderful drawings you see are from Michael Arthur who drew me some months ago in the studio…
Hope you enjoy you the blog design 
With the very best wishes,
Daniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil
29
Mar 2010
