Teaser post: tomorrow we publish Vadim Muntagirov’s questionnaire. In the...
Ever since the unknown Vadim Muntagirov and established English National Ballet star Daria Klimentova were unexpectedly thrust together at the last minute to dance a Swan Lake in the Royal Albert Hall,...
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Bolshoi Ballet director Sergei Filin to return to Moscow tomorrow
The Bolshoi Ballet director Sergei Filin will return to Moscow tomorrow after six-months of treatment to save his eyesight in a German hospital.A spokesman for the Aachen University Hospital said...
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Zach’s Diary part one: Growing up dancing in Canada
Zach Rogers is an eighteen-year-old Canadian ballet dancer who got through to the finals at the Prix de Lausanne earlier this year, and has been accepted at the John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart for two...
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Ballet globalisation continues as La Scala dancers abandon ship
The boat may not be sinking, but this season finds four members of the ballet company at Milan’s La Scala moving elsewhere, and two, following in the footsteps of Kobborg and Cojocaru, made it a last...
View ArticleSergei Filin appears in court & Dmitrichenko says he’s sorry
Sergei Filin, director of the Bolshoi Ballet Company, appeared in court today in Moscow to give evidence in the acid attack case, supposedly instigated by Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko. Filin said...
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Natalia Osipova and an excellent cast début in Manon at La Scala
Natalia Osipova and Claudio Coviello receive a long ovation at La Scala Natalia Osipova’s début as Manon has inevitably aroused curiosity in dance circles as this ballet is one of the cornerstones of...
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Birthday Book: 200 years of La Scala’s ballet school
A book celebrating the 200th birthday of La Scala’s Ballet School was launched at Milan’s iconic theatre yesterday: Album di compleanno. 1813–2013. La Scuola di Ballo dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala....
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Meanwhile in Russia… Vaganova & Bolshoi latest
The protagonists The Russian Ministry of Culture announced this morning that there would be an external inspection of the organisation of St Petersburg’s Vaganova Ballet Academy. It will examine the...
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Sanquirico, designer of Norma and Anna Bolena, finally rests among the greats
La Scala during a performance of the ballet “Conquista di Malacca” by Alessandro Sanquirico The Wikipedia entry on Italian painter and designer Alessandro Sanquirico reads: Alessandro Sanquirico...
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Carla Fracci meets with Italian Speaker of the House to save Italian ballet
Carla Fracci and Laura Boldrini The President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies (the Speaker of the Lower House of the Italian Parliament), Laura Boldrini, met with Carla Fracci yesterday to discuss...
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Alexei Ratmansky’s Opera at La Scala
Alexei Ratmansky with Roberto Bolle creating ‘Opera’ — Photo by Marco Brescia & Rudy Amisano, Copyright Teatro alla Scala If an Alexei Ratmansky ballet is something to look forward to; a new...
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The year ballet wept… jealousy & rivalry at the Bolshoi
Sergei Filin and Pavel Dmitrichenko as they appeared on the Bolshoi website last year So 29-year-old Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko will go to prison for six years, and his career obviously ends...
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Asylmuratova and Mikhailovsky boss Kekhman, talk about her new appointment
Altynai Asylmuratova Altynai Asylmuratova has been appointed as advisor to the director of the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Izvestia reports. The theatre’s director, Vladimir Kekhman, said,...
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Russian Ministry says Vaganova letter against Tsiskaridze is forged
Tsiskaridze in festive mood — by Mikhail Logvinov (Bolshoi Theatre) The Russian Ministry of Culture has said that the letter sent to Vladimir Putin by the staff of the Vaganova Academy, asking for the...
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Being under 30 with Ratmansky at La Scala
The Under 30s taking their seats The first audience to witness Alexei Ratmansky’s new ballet consisted entirely of ‘Under 30s’, La Scala’s scheme to attract a new and younger audience. Tickets cost...
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Alexei Ratmansky’s Opera is here to stay
Opera with Emanuela Montanari, Mick Zeni, Beatrice Carbone and Roberto Bolle Alexei Ratmansky always manages to fascinate. His work is immersed in ballet tradition, yet is never obvious and never fails...
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The special woman in Roberto Bolle’s life comes forward
Roberto Bolle with his mother, Mariuccia Mariuccia is a very special person in Roberto Bolle’s life, but is seldom seen or talked about. The paparazzi don’t photograph her, and she doesn’t give...
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Zach’s Diary part three: Balanchine, class and holidays
Zach celebrating with his classmates Zach’s Diary part one: Growing up dancing in Canada Zach’s Diary part two: Starting at Stuttgart’s John Cranko-Schule Zach’s Diary part three Christmastime in...
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You choose it out of Love! Dancing with the Khan-MacKay family
Nicholas and Julian MacKay outside the Bolshoi Theatre June 2013 Dancing, like acting and singing, often runs in the family. There are countless dancers whose parents danced: Zenaida Yanowsky (Royal...
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Ratmansky revisited: Opera at La Scala
Roberto Bolle and Beatrice Carbone in Alexei Ratmansky’s Opera Alexei Ratmansky’s new ballet Opera, created for La Scala in Milan, generally pleased the critics, although elements in the audience were...
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