tue 06/10/2015  Opinion: Ballet's Stars are Revolting | Dance
reviews, news & interviews  Opinion: Ballet's Stars are
Revolting  Alina Cojocaru joins ENB - the latest superstar to
defy old company logic  Goodbye Royal: Alina Cojocaru and Johan
Kobborg at a Mayerling curtain call, with Laura Morera  Are we
seeing a breakdown in the ballet company system? Where the
brightest stars used to twinkle in the great companies, all is
changing. Alina Cojocaru, the great Royal Ballet ballerina, has
announced today she's joining English National Ballet - run by
another great Royal Ballet ballerina, Tamara Rojo. For ENB to
have the two finest talents of the past decade in Covent Garden
now at the head of their cast lists is the biggest stunner
since… well, since the Bolshoi Ballet's young superstars Natalia
Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev quit to join the smaller Mikhailovsky
Ballet.  polunin coppelia stanislavskyOr since the Royal's super
young male star Sergei Polunin quit Covent Garden and landed
with another of Russia's "se