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Ballerina Mara Galeazzi and choreographer Tim Podesta… It was meant to be
Mara Galeazzi and Tim Podesta… working together is getting to be a habit! Working with Mara is always a blessing. The first time I can recall seeing Mara perform was in Chroma and she was so fierce yet...
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Strong Italian presence in Royal Opera House Muscat’s new season
The Royal Opera House Muscat’s 2016-2017 Season is called Excellence in Diversity. It seems as though building was completed just the other day, yet the ROHM is about to enter its sixth season. In...
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Cesar Corrales wins English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer Award 2016
Junior Soloist Cesar Corrales won the English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer award at the London Palladium on 17 May. He performed Contrabajo para hombre, a solo by Julio Lopez, and the pas de deux...
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18-year-old Julian MacKay becomes a soloist with the Mikhailovsky Ballet
After being introduced to Julian Mackay, and his whole dancing family, three years ago by his sister Maria Sascha Khan – now First Soloist with the Ekaterinburg State Ballet – I have been following the...
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Amici della Scala: Fracci, Lazzarini, Pomodoro, Soleri, Vanoni, Savignano…...
The ‘Amici della Scala’ sure knows how to throw a party! The indefatigable Anna Crespi, who has been guiding the Friends of La Scala association since its birth in 1978, had the idea to get some of the...
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Wayne McGregor’s new ballet Obsidian Tear – first images!
Tonight The Royal Ballet presented a special triple bill with the world premiere of Wayne McGregor’s new ballet Obsidian Tear, a revival after 20 years of Kenneth MacMillan’s The Invitation and the...
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Milan’s mayoral candidate, “A scandal that Carla Fracci isn’t at La Scala”
Stefano Parisi, centre-right candidate as the new mayor in Milan, has said, I find it scandalous that an extraordinary artist, and the most important symbol of classical dance and of the city of Milan,...
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Royal Ballet Autumn Season 2016 – 2017 – full dates and casts
The Royal Ballet has released the casting for their Autumn Season, from September 2016 until January 2017. Roberta Marquez will return as Guest Artist to dance two farewell performances in one of her...
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The Royal Ballet has four new principals… and other promotions
Alexander Campbell, Francesca Hayward, Ryoichi Hirano and Akane Takada have been promoted to Principal, the Company’s highest rank. Kevin O’Hare, Director of The Royal Ballet, said, I am delighted to...
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Twyla Tharp Dance brings ‘premiere’ of her latest creation to Italy
Italians, and visitors to il bel paese, have a rare opportunity to see Twyla Tharp Dance between 21 and 26 June when the company visits Florence, Ravenna and Rome. For the Italian tour the company...
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Milan dance world in mourning after death in gas explosion
Yesterday a devastating gas explosion ripped through an apartment block in Milan’s trendy canal district killing three people. One of the three was Micaela Masella who worked at Milan’s Teatro Carcano,...
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Old and new in English National Ballet’s 2016-2017 Season, Spring/Summer
The English National Ballet’s Spring/Summer 2017 season sees a refreshing nod to the company’s past with a revival of Rudolf Nureyev’s Romeo & Juliet during August of 2017 when the company makes a...
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Vaganova Ballet Academy to open a new school in Vladivostok – 10,000 km from...
by guest blogger Elizaveta Dilanyan On 18 June it was announced that Vaganova Ballet Academy will open a second campus in Vladivostok, the capital of the Primorsky Krai province, in far eastern...
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Ratmansky explains why his Swan Lake is arriving bigger and better at La Scala
Alexei Ratmansky’s reconstruction of Marius Petipa’s Swan Lake was rapturously received by almost all the critics when it premiered in Zurich in February. Alastair Macaulay in The New York Times said,...
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La Scala dancers talk about being in Ratmansky’s Swan Lake
The new director of La Scala’s ballet company, Mauro Bigonzetti, has chosen to present the new version of Swan Lake with in-house casting “to help our dancers grow”. This is very unusual at La Scala,...
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Countdown to Ratmansky’s Swan Lake – photos and video interview
Tonight’s the night. One of the most anticipated of La Scala’s season. The debut of Alexei Ratmansky’s reconstruction of Petipa and Ivanov’s Swan Lake. The production is a co-production with Zurich...
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Swan Lake at La Scala – Alexei Ratmansky puts the ballet’s heart where it...
Alexei Ratmansky’s reconstruction of the Petipa/Ivanov Swan Lake is as eye-opening as was his version of The Sleeping Beauty: it is fresh, it is vital, it effectively tells a story and communicates...
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St Mary’s University announce partnership with Royal Ballet for conditioning...
The School of Sport, Health and Applied Science (SHAS) at St Mary’s University, Twickenham and the Royal Opera House announced an exciting new partnership to deliver sports science support services to...
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Passion, Love, Life… InternationBalLET makes its debut in Italy
InternationBalLET has arrived in Italy for two performances of its programme Passion, Love, Life… The newly-formed group is made up of dancers from the Hungarian State Ballet in Budapest but,...
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Man arrested for chopping off ballet teacher’s thumb
In a most bizarre story from Tokyo, a man has been arrested after having chopped of the thumb of a ballet teacher in her dance studio. Hiroaki Hashimoto is a 41-year-old chiropractor who used to study...
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