A Body of Work
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Giselle (ABT), 129–134, 217, 221–227, 271
Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet), 137–141
Romeo and Juliet (ABT), 295, 298–301
at Paris Opera Ballet School, 75
“putting her on her leg,” 91–93, 111–114
rapport and, 88, 107–109, 129–134, 225, 231
Alina Somova, The Sleeping Beauty (Mariinsky Ballet), 151
upper-body strength for, 82, 88
Diana Vishneva, The Sleeping Beauty (ABT), 15–16
Michele Wiles
“Grand Pas Classique” (ABT), 89–94, 134–137
Manon bedroom pas de deux (ABT), 89–94
Swan Lake (ABT, shorter version), 97–106
Theme and Variations (ABT), 111–114
Svetlana Zakharova
Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet), 269–271, 327, 328–329
The Sleeping Beauty (Bolshoi Ballet), 209, 211–212, 230–233, 243–249, 251–256
The Sleeping Beauty (Paris Opera Ballet), 315–320
Swan Lake (Bolshoi Ballet), 259–260, 266–267, 330–332
pas de poisson, 323–324
Pavlova, Anna, 144
Petipa, Marius, 96, 98, 99, 107, 143, 187, 200
Phoenix, Arizona, 23–63
Dancentre, 24, 28–29, 39
DH and Lutheran church, 34–35, 287
DH at Arizona School for the Arts, 41, 47, 75, 76–77
DH at Desert Shadows Middle School, 33–40, 41
DH at School of Ballet Arizona, 47–63
DH in Ballet Arizona, The Nutcracker, 29–31, 51
DH training with Mr. Han. See Han, Kee Juan
raves, 53–55, 343
physiotherapy team in Australia, 355–397
Paula Baird Colt, 355, 356, 357–361, 362, 371, 376–377, 391, 402
Megan Connelly, 355, 356, 362–365, 371–374, 378–379, 380–383, 385–386, 388–391, 396, 401–402
demi-pointe stairwell walking, 376–377, 389, 401
DH emotional breakthrough, 380–383
DH log of interpretations, 358, 360
DH return to ABT stage, 401–402
Sue Mayes, 350–353, 355–357, 359, 375–376, 377, 379–383, 386–388, 391, 396, 402
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (ABT), 107–108
Pillar of Fire (ABT), 108
Piotrovsky, Adrian, 170
pirouettes, 51, 110, 146, 181, 224–225, 378–379
pliés, 9–10, 11, 156, 341–342, 344, 345, 346, 355, 372, 374, 375–377, 379, 380, 394
port de bras, 149, 400
postshow rituals, 15–16, 105–106, 140–141, 162
preshow rituals, 13–14, 130–131, 223, 319, 402–403
Prince, 37
promenades, 57, 93
raked stages, 179, 188–189, 224–225
Ratmansky, Alexei
as ABT Artist in Residence, 166–172, 177–180
background, 166–167
as Bolshoi Artistic Director, 127–128, 167, 169–170, 177, 185, 273
The Bright Stream (ABT), 169–172
Cinderella, 317
On the Dnieper, 168
Firebird (ABT), 273–276
Flames of Paris (Bolshoi Ballet), 127–128, 177–178, 230
injuries of DH and, 349
Lost Illusions (Boshoi Ballet), 317, 321
The Nutcracker (ABT), 108, 122
Seven Sonatas (ABT), 168, 179–180, 185
Shostakovich Trilogy (ABT), 168, 307–308
teaching style, 167–169
raves, 53–55
Raymonda (ABT), 107
relevé, 355, 364
Robbins, Jerome, 335–336
Robchinskiy, Gosha, 282–283
Rodriguez, Michelle, 342–343, 346–347
Romeo and Juliet
American Ballet Theater (ABT), 1–2, 67, 108, 295, 298–301
balcony scene, 90, 224, 299–301
kiss in, 90, 300
rond de jambe, 10
Royal Ballet (UK), Swan Lake, 66
RSD (complex regional pain syndrome), 341, 343
Russian Orthodox weddings, 287–289
St. Petersburg. See Mariinsky Ballet and Theatre (St. Petersburg)
Salstein, Craig, 335–336
Sanduny bathhouse (banya), Moscow, 264–267, 312
School of Ballet Arizona
DH as student, 196
DH in Sleeping Beauty pas de deux, 57–58
DH on brochure cover, 76–77
Kee Juan Han as teacher of DH, 47–63
Segerstrom Center for the Arts (Costa Mesa, California), 116, 201
self-acceptance, importance of, 79–80, 134
Semenyaka, Ludmila, 230–231, 232–233, 270
Seven Sonatas (ABT), 168, 179–180, 185
sexual identity of DH
AIDS epidemic and, 43
attitudes toward, 285–286, 287
bullying and teasing, 22–24, 27–28, 33–35, 39–40, 41, 170–172, 286
effeminate nature, 22–23
family support and, 39–45
female friends, 33–34
and Jack, 36–38, 41–45
psychiatrists and, 23
Shannon, Michael, 197
Shostakovich, Dmitri, 170
Shostokovich Trilogy (ABT), 168, 307–308
Simachev (Bar & Shop, “Sima”), 283–284, 285
sissones, 324
Sleeping Beauty, The
American Ballet Theater (ABT), 15–16, 119–120, 315
in Big Five of ballet, 143
Bolshoi Ballet, 209, 211–212, 214, 230–233, 238–239, 240–241, 243–249, 251–256, 291, 304, 315
character development, 150–151
DH sprains ankle in Bolshoi production, 255–256, 304
Mariinsky Ballet, 143–144, 146–151, 189, 315
Paris Opera Ballet, 315–320, 322
School of Ballet Arizona (pas de deux), 57–58
“Sometimes It Snows in April” (Prince), 37
Somova, Alina, in The Sleeping Beauty (Mariinsky Ballet), 151
sous-sous, 116
Spartacus (Bolshoi Ballet), 275, 323–324
Special K, 55, 343–344
stage floors
canvas, 224–225
Marley floors, 156, 224–225
raked stages, 179, 188–189, 224–225
wood, 156
Stalin, Joseph, 170
Stanislavsky Theatre, 178
Stiefel, Ethan, 65, 85–86, 118, 146, 153–154, 305–306
Stravinsky, Igor, 116–117, 273
Studio Company (ABT), 66, 81–84
Stuttgart Ballet, 94
Summer Intensive (ABT), 66–70
DH accepted in, 68–70, 71–72, 110
DH auditions for, 66–68
Swan Lake
American Ballet Theater (ABT), 61–62, 67, 95–106, 121, 245
in Big Five of ballet, 143
Bolshoi Ballet, 96, 136, 232–233, 238, 239, 259–260, 266–267, 309–310, 317, 330–332
character development, 102–103
history of ballet, 96–98, 99, 136, 177, 239
Mariinsky Ballet, 165–166, 187–191
music for, 95–96, 136
Paris Opera Ballet, 123, 322–323
popularity of, 96–97
Royal Ballet, 66
Teatro alla Scala, 322–323
Sylvia
American Ballet Theater (ABT), 116
music for, 96
Symphony in C, 1st movement (ABT), 86–88, 245
tap dancing of DH
after-school program, 20–22
Fred Astaire and, 18–20
school talent show, 24–25
tap shoes, 19–20
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 95–96, 136, 177, 187, 247, 260, 277, 294
teachers and coaches of DH
Ib Andersen, 116
Mr. Bernstein (Phoenix music teacher), 24–25
Yuri Fateyev, 146–151, 165–166, 184, 187–191, 194–19
5, 198
finding coaches, 147–148
Guillaume Graffin, ABT, 97–106, 118, 147, 244
Kee Juan Han, School of Ballet Arizona, 47–63, 69–70, 96, 98, 328–329
Irina Kolpakova, 129–130
Kevin McKenzie, ABT, 89–94, 103, 105–106, 129–130, 399–404
John Meehan, ABT, 82–84
Ludmila Semenyaka, 230–231, 232–233, 270
Maxine Vashro (Minneapolis), 21
Alexander Vetrov (Sasha, Bolshoi), 214–219, 221–222, 226, 230–231, 243–244, 246, 248, 251, 260, 270, 271, 312, 323–324, 330–332
Teatro alla Scala, Swan Lake, 322–323
tendu, 10, 48, 156, 296–297, 355, 364
Theme and Variations, 117
American Ballet Theater (ABT), 108, 110–114, 156, 177, 179–181
American Ballet Theater (ABT) Summer Intensive, 72, 110
challenges of, 110, 179, 181
tombé pas de bourrée, 380
tour jeté, 244
Tsiskaridze, Nikolai, 242, 259
turnout, 218
Turovnikova, Natalia (“Natasha”), 283–285
Ulanova, Galina, 128
Vaganova, Agrippina, 58–60
Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, The (St. Petersburg), 58
Vail, Colorado
DH in summer intensive program, 60–61
DH in Vail International Dance Festival, 242
van Hamel, Martine, 90
Vashro, Maxine, 21
Vasiliev, Ivan, 201
in the Bolshoi Ballet, 127–128, 139, 144–145, 167, 201, 217
in Flames of Paris (Bolshoi Ballet), 127–128, 177–178, 230
in Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet), 140
leaves Bolshoi Ballet, 229–230
Vasiliev, Vladimir, 139–140
Vayer, Clotilde, 316
Veronique Doisneau (film), 122–123, 124
Vetrov, Alexander (“Sasha”)
as coach of DH, 214–219, 221–222, 226, 230–231, 243–244, 246, 248, 251, 260, 270, 271, 312, 323–324, 330–332
teaching style, 218–219
Villella, Edward, 275
Vishneva, Diana
injuries of DH and, 349
in The Sleeping Beauty (ABT), 15–16
vitamin deficiencies, 261
Vogel, Friedmann, 94
Vorontsova, Anzhelina, 309–310
Wakin, Daniel J., 199
Washington Ballet, The, DH on board of directors, 62–63
Washington, DC
ABT at Kennedy Center, 87–88
Bolshoi at Kennedy Center, 327, 328–329
DH attends Kennedy Center Honors, 340
Mariinsky Ballet performances, 165–166
Washington School of Ballet, 62–63
Whelan, Wendy, 296–297
Wilde, Oscar, 107–108
Wiles, Michele
in “Grand Pas Classique” (ABT), 89–94, 134–137
as Manon in Manon bedroom pas de deux (ABT), 89–94
as Odette-Odile in Swan Lake (ABT, shorter version), 97–106
in Theme and Variations (ABT), 111–114
wins Erik Bruhn Prize (Toronto), 94
wings of the house, 136–137, 245, 246, 247, 331, 403
Woetzel, Damian, 134
Zakharova, Svetlana
Giselle in Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet), 269–271, 327, 328–329
Nikiya in La Bayadère (ABT), 208–209
Odette-Odile in Swan Lake (Bolshoi Ballet), 259–260, 266–267, 330–332
Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (Bolshoi Ballet), 209, 211–212, 230–233, 243–249, 251–256
Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (Paris Opera Ballet), 315–320
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