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Mara Galeazzi’s addio: it’s time to think about my family
Mara Galeazzi, principal dancer with London’s Royal Ballet, though trained at the La Scala school in Milan, will say goodbye to her performing career on 23 July at a starry gala with colleagues from...
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Mara Galeazzi’s farewell gala with her Royal Ballet friends
Summer months in Italy boast many ballet galas: Bolle & Friends, Abbagnato & Friends… who doesn’t want to tour the glorious piazze of Italy: fantastic dance in fantastic settings. But this...
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Dancer Steven McRae morphs into a Japanese manga character
Dance firsts are rare: Albrecht nude? Seen it. Swan Lake in the round? Been there. But ballet manga is something new, at least when it involves a real dancer.What is manga? I hear the balletomanes cry...
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Sarah Lamb, Marianela Nuñez, Gary Avis, Steven McRae, Thiago Soares and Edward Watson celebrate Mara GaleazziAs Royal Ballet dancers arrived in Verona to share the stage with Mara Galeazzi for the last...
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La Scala’s orthopaedist, Walter Albisetti, is killed by an electric saw at 56
Walter Albisetti, Milan’s most well-known and respected orthopaedist, has died at 56. He was a specialist in treating dancers and most of the ballet company at La Scala had passed through his...
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Great emotion at ballet doctor’s funeral
At 10am hundreds of friends, colleagues, and neighbours, including many dancers and doctors, gathered in the sweltering heat to say their goodbyes to Walter Albisetti, a much loved figure who died...
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Bolshoi star ballerina Alexandrova will be off the stage for a year
Bolshoi prima ballerina Maria Alexandrova, who injured her Achilles tendon on 2 August during a performance of La Bayadère in London, may not be back on stage for a year. Alexandrova received emergency...
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160 photos of Royal Ballet dancers rehearsing now online
When I went to cover Mara Galeazzi’s farewell gala with Royal Ballet colleagues in Verona last month, I took my camera for a couple of backstage shots. Well I ended up taking hundreds of photos during...
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Bolshoi soloist’s pretrial detention extended in acid attack case
Pavel Dmitrichenko, the Bolshoi dancer imprisoned on suspicion of instigating the acid attack against artistic director Sergei Filin, said he denied planning the assault during an audience in Moscow...
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David Howard, much loved ballet teacher ‘to the stars’, dies at 76
Ballet master David Howard, affectionately known in the media as “Teacher of Stars”, has died at 76.Howard trained at what is now the Arts Educational) School and the Royal Academy of Dance, eventually...
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Sergei Filin returns to the Bolshoi
Sergei Filin’s surprise appearance at the end of the Bolshoi’s performance of Jewels at the Royal Opera House in London was emotional for Bolshoi dancers and London audience alike.The Bolshoi’s Onegin,...
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Carla Fracci frolicking in the sea at 77 and returning on stage
Carla Fracci will be 77 on Tuesday, but seemingly nothing can hold her back. A couple of days La Nazione newspaper photographed her frolicking in the sea with her two grandchildren. Paparazzi shots,...
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Isadora on the beach, with Carla Fracci
Happy birthday to Carla Fracci who is 77 today.A couple of days ago one of the Italian paparazzi caught her with her two grandchildren on the beach at Forte dei Marmi where she is spending a few days...
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Roberto Bolle: dancers need a perfect body, a great face, and passion
For the autumn/fall issue of Fashionisto, Roberto Bolle has been photographed by Brent Chua for a fashion shoot wearing Prada, Armani, and Dolce & Gabbana.Bolle is a Principal with the American...
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Roberto Bolle and Friend… relaxing in Capri
The ballet gala Roberto Bolle and Friends comes to the New York City Center on 17 September 2013.Before getting back into the swing of rehearsals at La Scala, and preparations for the New York event,...
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Royal Ballet’s Steven McRae flirts with three new partners: Salenko,...
After the planned retirement of Mara Galeazzi and Leanne Benjamin, and Alina Cojocaru surprising everyone after she downed pointe shoes in Tokyo and left, there were obviously some holes in the casting...
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The music of Italy’s n°1 rocker returns to La Scala
Vasco Rossi is one of the most famous Italian rockers. The singer-songwriter has hit sixty, but continues to sell out stadiums. His most famous song, Vita spericolata (Daredevil Life) sums up his own...
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The new Muscovite: David Hallberg dresses up for Vogue
David Hallberg returned to the Bolshoi for Onegin, and while there found time for a photoshoot for Vogue Russia. He talked to Anna Fedina for an article entitled “New Muscovite”.On returning to the...
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Roberto Bolle becomes a King of Dance for London début (with surprise Queen)
The Kings of the Dance gets its first Re Italiano, as Roberto Bolle joins the roster of some of ballet’s most exciting male dancers, for the latest edition of the roadshow.The new tour will bring...
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The Kings of Dance have a Queen: Svetlana Lunkina
The Kings of Dance will come to London with their newly crowned queen, Svetlana Lunkina.Roberto Bolle and Ivan Vasiliev will perform Roland Petit’s Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, with ex-Bolshoi star...
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