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Patrice Bart’s Swan Lake, with Tsygankova and Kaniskin, in Rome
Swan Lake with Rome Opera Ballet It can’t be easy to dance with the possibility of redundancy hanging over your head. The workers at Rome Opera have put on a brave face recently as the theatre’s heavy...
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The original Madame No: Ekaterina Maximova’s 75th anniversary celebrated in...
“Les Sylphides” Ekaterina Maximova, Bolshoi Theatre, 1958. Photo Soloviev It all began with a fouetté is the name of a new exhibition in Moscow to mark the 75th anniversary of the birth of Ekaterina...
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Le Spectre de rose and La rose malade at La Scala
Maria Eichwald and Igor Yebra in La rose malade — photo Brescia & Amisano/Teatro alla Scala As an antipasto before the one act opera Cavalleria Rusticana, La Scala put on two related ballets —...
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En Avant with quality, integrity, musicality and artistic meaning in...
Cynthia Harvey — Artistic Director of the En Avant Foundation En Avant is a “New Non-Profit Foundation for Specialised Ballet Coaching, Mentoring and the Awarding of Scholarships”. The Foundation is...
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Alessandra Ferri: an Italian girl in New York
Alessandra Ferri arrived to live in New York when she was 22, after Mikhail Baryshnikov invited her to join the American Ballet Theatre. She was born in Milan, and studied at the La Scala Ballet...
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La Scala’s eating-disorder dancer loses her case and her job
Mary Garret’s current Facebook profile photo Mariafrancesca Garritano, a soloist with the La Scala Ballet Company, wrote a book in 2010 exposing the eating-disorders which afflict one in five dancers,...
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Coppélia: with tutus or wafers?
Yosvani Ramos in front of Coppélia An ice-cream parlour around the corner from my home is called Coppélia. It’s just opposite the new Fendi showroom and offices in via Solari in Milan. Now I’m sure...
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Hey Old Friend… Carla Fracci and Roberto Bolle get together
Carla Fracci and Roberto Bolle at the Eni dinner At Milan’s Teatro alla Scala the most important date of the year is 7 December, the opening of the opera and ballet season. The theatre bursts with...
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Dancer Ivan Nagy dies at 70
Ivan Nagy and Marilyn Burr Ivan Nagy, one of the great names in dance during the twentieth century, died yesterday in Budapest; he was 70-years-old. Nagy was born on 28 April 1943 in Hungary. He...
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Ivan Nagy, Carla Fracci, John Prinz and Natalia Makarova in the 70s
Ivan Nagy, Carla Fracci, John Prinz and Natalia Makarova as captured by photographer Jack Mitchell in the 1970s when all were part of the American Ballet Theatre. … [continue reading]The post Ivan...
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A caro Ivan con amore… A man is a man Ivan was a man A man who danced Who danced with his soul As true dancers must. A dancing friend A friend who has left us A man who has left us Until we meet again…...
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Julien Benhamou, the French photographer, on shooting dance and dancers
French photographer Julien Benhamou has a passion for photographing dancers, musicians, and artists of all kinds. His style is crisp and vibrant which makes him an automatic choice for magazine...
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Royal Ballet fields a starry cast for Wheeldon’s Winter’s Tale
The Royal Ballet’s publicity graphic for The Winter’s Tale The Royal Ballet have released casting details for Christopher Wheeldon’s latest project for the company, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The...
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Stepping in for Vasiliev & Osipova: Vittoria Valerio’s turn
Marta Romagna, Ivan Vasiliev and Vittoria Valerio in Rubies Natalia Osipova, down to dance with Ivan Vssiliev in Rubies at Teatro alla Scala, was indisposed for the dress rehearsal, the first night,...
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Marianela Núñez and Thiago Soares… giving back
Marianela Núñez and Thiago Soares London’s Royal Opera House is involved in lots of charitable work, and during a charitable event Royal Ballet principal dancer Thiago Soares was introduced to Richard...
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Roland Petit on Colette, Poulenc, Cocteau, Fracci, Murru and his ballet Chéri
Roland Petit rehearsing Chéri with Carla Fracci Roland Petit’s evocative and charming ballet, Chéri, was created at La Scala in 1996 for the mature Carla Fracci who turned sixty that year. Colette’s...
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Black Swan Gala with Bouder, de Luz and Picone, tours Italy
The title may make serious fans of ballet balk: Gran Gala Il Cigno Nero — Black Swan Gala. If Daniele Cipriani, the producer, wants to cash in on some of the publicity from the Darren Aronofsky film...
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Portrait of Dame Monica Mason is unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery
Dame Monica Mason and portrait - copyright Jorge Herrera Photography Copyright: Jorge Herrera Photography A newly commissioned portrait of Dame Monica Mason, by artist Saied Dai has been unveiled at...
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Carla Fracci returns to dance on Italy’s heel
Carla Fracci, now in her 78th year, will be opening in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice tomorrow, at Lecce’s Teatro Politeama Greco. The Italian ballet icon will be appearing with the Balletto del Sud in the...
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Tsiskaridze: Real ballet dancers are trained in Paris, Moscow or St Petersburg
Nikolai Tsiskaridze — photo by Ilya Grigoriev/RIA Novosti Forget the Royal Ballet School or the The School of American Ballet, Nikolai Tsiskaridze says there are only three real ballet schools in the...
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