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Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui creates a semi-new piece for Osipova and Vasiliev
Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev summer ballet-fest, Solo for Two, has a slight alteration in the programme.The evening’s opening is now to be a new piece by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, drawing on two...
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Young American at the Bolshoi: Julian MacKay wins Sochi and Istanbul medals
The (other) American at the Bolshoi, 16-year-old Julian MacKay, has been winning medals at the international ballet competitions at Sochi and Istanbul. Of course there are lots of ballet competitions...
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Deloitte Ignite 2014: The Royal Ballet’s month-long festival of dance, music...
The month-long contemporary arts festival Deloitte Ignite 2014 is based on the theme of myth and this year is curated by The Royal Ballet and The National Gallery’s Dr Minna Moore Ede, who said,At the...
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Carla Fracci for Expo 2015: Milan, Capital of the World
The Milanese ballerina, Carla Fracci, has become an Ambassador for the Milan Expo 2015.The theme of the World Expo is Feed the planet, Energy for Life and in the clip below she talks about her love for...
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Roberto Bolle & Friends arrives in Verona: not drunk and not vulgar!
Roberto Bolle and Friends is up and running with two dates in Genoa already ticked off the list. Tomorrow comes the Verona date at that biggest of all dance venues, the 15,000-seater Roman...
View ArticleÁngel Corella to become next Director of the Pennsylvania Ballet
After announcing the closure of his Spanish company and saying that he had little choice but to leave Spain if he was to continue working, Ángel Corella has done just that and in September he will...
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Dancers from the Royal Ballet and ENB reopen the glorious Teatro Colón in Bogotá
Teatro Colón in Bogotá reopens tomorrow night after a six-year restoration.Ten dancers from the Royal Ballet and the English National Ballet will help to get the celebrations off to a good start. Among...
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More dancers decide to leave Italy… most never come back
Italy's Got Talent. Lots of it. Sometimes that talent finds it difficult to emerge - it's not always what you know but who you know - and sometimes there's not enough room for everyone to show what...
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Carmen Medea Cassandra – Il processo: tonight and on tour
Carmen, Medea and Cassandra... just imagine all three around a dinner table... a diplomatic nightmare. For Italian choreographer Luciano Cannito they have provided him with inspiration for a new pièce:...
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Starry names coach future ballet stars at En Avant’s first event
The En Avant Foundation - "for Specialised Ballet Coaching, Mentoring and the Awarding of Scholarships" - has had its first ever event in New York City at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.Young...
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Men in Motion at La Versiliana Festival: classics, premières and surprises
The latest incarnation of Ivan Putrov's Men in Motion comes to Italy's La Versiliana Festival.Men in Motion was first presented at Sadlers Wells in 2012 and has since been performed with great success...
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Alessandra Ferri to guest with Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
Alessandra Ferri will take the title role in Artemis in a new production of the piece by the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company.Artemis, based on the Greek myth of the goddess of the hunt, was originally...
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Julio Bocca and his plans for the National Ballet of Uruguay
Julio Bocca has been at the helm of the Uruguay's Ballet Nacional for almost four years. The company - officially known as the Ballet Nacional SODRE (BNS), as it comes under the umbrella organisation...
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David Hallberg cancels engagements to recover from surgery
American Ballet Theatre and Bolshoi Ballet principal David Hallberg will take short break from performing to allow his left ankle to recover fully after surgery.Hallberg will be undergoing necessary...
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Carla Fracci celebrates her 78th birthday in a new ballet
On 20 August last year Carla Fracci was celebrating her birthday frolicking in the Mediterranean Sea with her two grandchildren.This year, her 78th birthday, she'll be opening in a new ballet in the...
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Men in Motion’s magic under the Tuscan sky
In 2012, Ivan Putrov had the conceit to produce an all-male gala where Don Q variations were banished, Le Corsaire’s jetés outlawed, and Albrecht’s entrechats six forbidden on pain of death. It short,...
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Italy’s PM Matteo Renzi and Carla Fracci… step in step?
What have Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, and Italian Ballet Icon, Carla Fracci got in common?Well, they were colleagues when Renzi was the Mayor of Florence and Fracci was (and still is)...
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Positano Massine Prize 2014: Ek, Laguna, Smirnova and Wheeldon honoured
The attraction that Positano and its seascape have always exercised over artists of the dance is the reason that, on 2 August 1969, the Premio Positano was established. Ten years later, on the death of...
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Damian Lewis participates in Deloitte Ignite at the Royal Opera House
Actors Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory will feature in the opening weekend of the Royal Opera House’s annual contemporary arts festival Deloitte Ignite which starts tomorrow, appearing in a pair of...
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Positano Premia la Danza Léonide Massine winners 2014
Last night the threatening weather held off, and the gala and award ceremony for the Positano Premia la Danza Léonide Massine on the main beach at Positano went ahead as planned.The exquisite setting...
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