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Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Famous birthdays for May 26: Lauryn Hill, Helena Bonham Carter
May 26 (UPI) -- Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include: -- Pope Clement VII in 1478 -- Dancer Isadora Duncan in 1877 -- Photographer Dorothea Lange in 1895 -- Actor John Wayne in 1907 -- Actor Jay Silverheels in 1912 -- Actor Peter Cushing in 1913 -- Musician Peggy Lee in 1920 -- Actor James Arness in 1923 -- Musician Miles Davis in 1926 -- Right-to-die advocate Jack Kevorkian in 1928 -- Sportscaster Brent Musburger in 1939 (age 86) -- Musician Garry Peterson (Guess Who) in 1945 (age 80) -- Musician Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac) in 1948 (age 77) -- Musician Hank Williams Jr. in 1949 (age 76) -- Actor Pam Grier in 1949 (age 76) -- Actor Philip Michael Thomas in 1949 (age 76) -- Astronaut Sally Ride in 1951 -- Actor Doug Hutchison in 1960 (age 65) -- Actor Genie Francis in 1962 (age 63) -- Actor Bobcat Goldthwait in 1962 (age 63) -- Musician Lenny Kravitz in 1964 (age 61) -- Actor Helena Bonham Carter in 1966 (age 59) -- Musician Jonny "2 Bags" Wickersham (Social Distortion) in 1967 (age 58) -- Musician Kristen Pfaff (Hole) in 1967 (age 58) -- Danish King Frederik X in 1968 (age 57) -- Musician Phillip Rhodes (Gin Blossoms) in 1968 (age 57) -- Filmmaker Hwang Dong-hyuk in 1971 (age 54) -- Filmmaker/actor Matt Stone in 1971 (age 54) -- Musician Lauryn Hill (Fugees) in 1975 (age 50) -- Actor Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey in 1986 (age 39) -- Musician Yeji (Itzy) in 2000 (age 25) -- Musician Kyujin (Nmixx) in 2006 (age 19) )
The Guardian
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Osipova/Linbury review – superstar ballerina reckons with the icons of dance
Dancers don't just pay tribute to the past, they can inhabit it. In this solo(ish) triple bill, Royal Ballet principal Natalia Osipova steps into the shoes of two great female icons of modern dance, Martha Graham and Isadora Duncan, perhaps absorbing some of their pioneering spirit along the way. In Graham's Errand Into the Maze, Osipova is quelling demons – explicitly Marcelino Sambé's Minotaur, but inner ones too – with the power of her mighty ankle-to-ear kicks. It is a dance of strength and sharp accents, geometry and gravity, and Osipova's character simmers with power as well as trepidation. Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan is a homage by Frederick Ashton, presented here in a new film by Grigory Dobrygin, spiritedly shot and beautifully lit. A handheld camera chases Osipova under a flowing chiffon scarf, capturing her giddiness and wild freedom while closeup detail sees the vulnerability at heart. The voluptuousness of the movement is womanly but there's a childlike quality too, in its abandon and in the certainty of one's own presence at the centre of the world. It's a film that does the ballet justice. So that's the first half of Osipova's offering. The second half diverges eccentrically from the historical into something of right now. Jo Strømgren is a Norwegian choreographer, playwright and director whose The Exhibition is a piece of comic dance theatre. Two people arrive in a gallery: a well-groomed Osipova and the scruffier Christopher Akrill. She speaks Russian, he English. There's mischief and misunderstanding and the two are drawn into an odd relationship which is hampered and enhanced by their inability to understand each other. You never know where the piece is going, but it engagingly dances around themes of connection, prejudice, art and beauty, and what the body can and cannot say. Even if you can't understand Osipova's words there is a naturalism and cheeky character to her animated chatter. We know she's a good dance-actor, but speech is something different. It's a surprising swerve for Osipova, a statement about who she is, or might want to be as a performer. It's a triple bill that honours past legends while telling us that Osipova is determined to be her own artist. At the Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, London, until 10 March
