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Walter Venditti: the 84-year-old ballet teacher who keeps Milan on its toes
Milan is the sort of city which empties as soon as holidays arrive, and in Italy there are lots of holidays. The schools are shut and so are private dancing schools… except for that of Walter Venditti....
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Too cold for Giselle: Royal New Zealand Ballet cancels prestigious date in China
The Royal New Zealand Ballet cancelled the two performances of Giselle programmed for 20–21 April in Tianjin in China because it was too cold. The Tianjin Grand Theatre is an enormous modern structure...
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Nikolai Tsiskaridze falls silent, afraid of dismissal from the Bolshoi
Bolshoi Theatre’s Nikolai Tsiskaridze, fearing dismissal from the company, refuses to communicate with the press without permission from the Bolshoi’s spokesman Katerina Novikova. Tsiskaridze was asked...
View ArticleCarla Fracci at the La Scala Theatre Ballet School celebrations
The La Scala Theatre Ballet School was formed 200 years ago, and its students are celebrating with a week of shows at Milan’s Teatro Strehler. At last night’s opening performance Carla Fracci, maybe...
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Italy’s Riccardo Tisci designs costumes for Abramovic’s Bolero
Italian designer Riccardo Tisci, a graduate from London’s Central Saint Martins Academy, has been Givenchy’s Creative Director for the last eight years. His first ballet costumes were seen last night...
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Buttoned-up Bolle: Shock fashion spread shows Roberto Bolle fully clothed
For the Spring/Summer 2013 issue of Fantastic Man, Roberto Bolle is featured in a series of suits looking very distinguished; his famous pectorals hidden by shirts, jackets and ties: buttoned-up...
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Claudio Coviello is promoted to primo ballerino at La Scala
21-year-old Claudio Coviello, who famously stepped in at the last minute to replace Ivan Vasiliev, has been named primo ballerino (principal) after yesterday’s performance as Albrecht in Giselle. Born...
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Roberto Bolle and Friends from ABT on tour in Italy
In addition to the Roberto Bolle & Friends dates in New York and Shanghai, a new group of friends will join him for his Italian leg of the tour. Roberto Bolle & Friends from the American Ballet...
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Étoile Eleonora Abbagnato and footballer hubby Federico Balzaretti: It’s...
The new Paris Opera Ballet étoile, Eleonora Abbagnato, is back in Italy for the first of six episodes of a television talent show, Amici, where she will captain a team of young singers and dancers. She...
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Carla Fracci, Luciana Savignano and Svetlana Zakharova go to the ball
To celebrate 200th Anniversary of the formation of the Ballet School at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the Academy, which runs the school, threw a Black and White Ball with three exceptional guests:...
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Culture crash: MaggioDanza ballet company axed in Florence
Addio to MaggioDanza, the ballet company formed in 1967 under the auspices of the Florence’s Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. A financial crisis has resulted in the decision to axe the ballet company, and...
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Pavel Dmitrichenko’s lawyers to contest the forensic results of acid attack
Pavel Dmitrichenko’s lawyers will contest the forensic results that show that the acid attack on Bolshoi Ballet chief Sergei Filin caused grievous bodily harm. Dmitrichenko, who is in jail, is accused...
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Interview with Tamara Rojo
Tamara Rojo is at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as one of the judges for this year’s Benois de la danse, the ballet Oscars. Maria Sidelnikova from Kommersant took the opportunity to talk to her. She...
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Nuñez and Hallberg début at La Scala, with Zakharova, Osipova, Bolle and...
Good news for dance at La Scala. Cutting down on the budget has meant axing three opera productions, but opera’s loss is ballet’s gain, for the ‘cheaper’ ballet performances have been bumped up from 49...
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Jailed Bolshoi dancer’s girlfriend defends him on Russian tv: He’s a...
Anzhelina Vorontsova, girlfriend of jailed Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko, has gone on Russian television and spoken for the first time in public of the acid attack on Bolshoi director Sergei...
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100 years after the riot: The Rite of Spring by those who were there
One day, when I was finishing the last pages of The Firebird in St Petersburg [in 1910], I had a fleeting vision… I saw in my imagination a solemn pagan rite: sage elders, seated in a circle, watched a...
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Cynthia Harvey answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? At age 8. A short time ago. Why did you start dancing? Apparently I preferred it to walking; actually I still do. Music was frequently played at home. My mother...
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Alessandra Ferri returns to dance the end of her marriage
At the end of June Alessandra Ferri will return to the stage after an absence of 7 years, and, at the age of 50, will restart her dancing career. At Spoleto, where she is the artistic director of the...
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Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg leave the Royal Ballet
Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg have announced they will leave The Royal Ballet at the end of the 2012/13 season to pursue other artistic challenges. Their last performance at the Royal Opera House as...
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Mikhail Baryshnikov helps achieve the dream of Russian poet Josef Brodsky
Nobel prize-winning poet Josef Brodsky and ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov were good friends. Really good friends. Brodsky hated calling Baryshnikov ‘Mikhail’ or ‘Misha’ so he called him ‘Mysh’:...
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