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Sabrina Brazzo & Co take their all-leather ballet to the Lincoln Center
Tonight, at the Lincoln Center in New York, a new Italian ballet will take to the stage which features almost only leather costumes. When the piece made its début in Milan two years ago, I wrote: A...
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Ardani Artists 25th Anniversary “If only all Galas could be like this”
Sergei and Gaiane Danilian, The Russian couple known by their company name, Ardani Artists, marked their 25th anniversary of dance management, production and promotion with a gala featuring some of the...
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50th Anniversary of MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet
The Royal Ballet 2015/16 Season opens this September with the return of Kenneth MacMillan’s landmark Romeo and Juliet, celebrating 50 years since its première at the Royal Opera House in 1965. It will...
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Thiago Soares launches his own line of dancewear
Thiago Soares launched his own line of dance and fitness clothing today. The Royal Ballet Principal has teamed up with Ludana Mantegazza’s Balletto: “a brand that sets itself apart with quality and...
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Carla Fracci returns to dance on stage once more: Scheherazade
Just two weeks shy of her 79th birthday, Carla Fracci returns once again to the stage, For me, dance is like water… I am regenerated by it, like a return to the womb. On 7 August, in Lecce’s Roman...
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Alastair Marriott’s Zeitgeist in 3 seconds with Natalia Osipova
Alastair Marriott created Zeitgeist for Natalia Osipova and Edward Watson to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Ardani Artists. Debra Craine in The Times said, An elegant and dynamic ballet in which...
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Mikhail Baryshnikov: Time is cruel
After the success of Letter to a Man at the Spoleto Festival in July, Mikhail Baryshnikov will resume his role as Nijinsky on 11 September for a two-week run in Milan. Once again, he is collaborating...
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Carlos Acosta at The Royal Ballet: celebrating 17 years
Carlos Acosta at The Royal Ballet is a new book to celebrate Carlos Acosta’s 17 year career with The Royal Ballet from 1998 – 2015. The book, which captures some of his greatest performances as well as...
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Triumphant return to Moscow for Carla Fracci
After several years, Carla Fracci danced again in Moscow last week, with a sold out theatre, a twenty-minute standing ovation and enough flowers to fill a florist’s window. In this case it is only...
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The Royal Ballet: Raven Girl / Connectome – first reactions and photos
Here are five of the first reviews out of last nights new double bill at The Royal Opera House: Wayne McGregor’s Raven Girl and Alastair Marriott’s Connectome. It runs until 24 October. RAVEN GIRL The...
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Ratmansky’s Sleeping Beauty in Milan casts its magic spell
Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘reconstruction’ of The Sleeping Beauty at La Scala made for one of the most interesting and satisfying evenings that I’ve had in the theatre for a long time. It is charming, it is...
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Ballet’s biggest names come to Milan for 4 days of dance
Milan is not like London or New York… there’s not a lot of dance going on. The resident company at La Scala will be performing six titles during the coming season. That’s S-I-X. And there will not be...
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Good news: Osipova’s back!
Natalia Osipova, who was forced to withdraw from commitments until the end of this year for a recurring problem with her foot, seems to be ‘back on her feet’. The Royal Ballet sadly announced in...
View ArticleMakhar Vaziev leaves La Scala to head the Bolshoi Ballet Company
Makhar Vaziev will leave his position as head of the La Scala Ballet Company and take over at the Bolshoi Ballet on 18 March 2016. The Director of the Bolshoi Theatre, Vladimir Urin, had already...
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First Look: Carlos Acosta’s Carmen for The Royal Ballet
It is 10.30pm in London, and the curtain has just gone down on The Royal Ballet’s new quadruple bill which includes Carlos Acosta’s new creation for the company: Carmen. Here are the first images of...
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Full programme of la Scala’s Gala des Étoiles – 30 and 31 October
Below is the full programme of Gala des Étoiles, at La Scala on 30 and 31 October. The Gala will be transmitted live by Italian television, Rai, on Rai5, and in cinemas internationally both live and...
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Mara Galeazzi & Friends in Milan for three days of dance
From tomorrow, 30 October until 1 November the Italian Royal Ballet dancer Mara Galeazzi will bring some exciting dancing to Milan as the Milan Expo 2015 comes to an end. An interesting programme...
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My Big Fat Italian Gala
The Gala des Étoiles at La Scala made me feel as though I’d eaten all the icing on the cake: happy, but a little woozy. Don Q? Check! Corsaire? Check! Manon and Romeo and Juliet? Check! Spartacus?...
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Mara Galeazzi’s Milan Gala with seven wonderful friends
Mara Galeazzi brought seven wonderful dancers with her to Milan’s Teatro Carcano for a three-day celebration of familiar and unknown pieces, in fact, there was a world premiere in the programme by Tim...
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Nikolay Tsiskaridze’s first two years at the helm of the Vaganova
The 28th of October 2015 marked the end of Nikolay Tsiskaridze’s first two years as head of the Vaganova Academy and the staff celebrated the occasion with a small get together. His appointment was...
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