Roberto Bolle and Friends from ABT on tour in Italy

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May 072013
 

Teatro Antico Taormina 500x375 Roberto Bolle and Friends from ABT on tour in ItalyIn addi­tion to the & 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 will be at the Politeama Ros­setti in Trieste on 19 July; at ’s Cara­calla Baths on 21–22 July; at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa on 24 July, and fin­ish­ing at Sicily’s glor­i­ous Teatro Antico in Taorm­ina on 26 July.

The pro­gramme will reflect ABT’s rep­er­toire and among oth­ers will fea­ture one of the company’s senior prin­cipal dan­cers Julie Kent, and , one its young­est, who was pro­moted to prin­cipal just last year.

Photo: Teatro Antico, Taormina

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  • wp socializer sprite mask 16px Roberto Bolle and Friends from ABT on tour in Italy
  • wp socializer sprite mask 16px Roberto Bolle and Friends from ABT on tour in Italy
  • wp socializer sprite mask 16px Roberto Bolle and Friends from ABT on tour in Italy
  • wp socializer sprite mask 16px Roberto Bolle and Friends from ABT on tour in Italy
  • wp socializer sprite mask 16px Roberto Bolle and Friends from ABT on tour in Italy

Buttoned-up Bolle: Shock fashion spread shows Roberto Bolle fully clothed

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May 052013
 

Roberto Bolle Fantastic Man 04 700x309 Buttoned up Bolle: Shock fashion spread shows Roberto Bolle fully clothed

For the Spring/Summer 2013 issue of Fant­astic Man, is fea­tured in a series of suits look­ing very dis­tin­guished; his fam­ous pec­tor­als hid­den by shirts, jack­ets and ties: buttoned-up Bolle. The and dan­cer wears cre­ations by Tom Ford, Bri­oni, Richard James, De Fursac, Paul Smith, Ralph Lauren and Gior­gio Armani. The spread is entitled Elastic Man, a ref­er­ence to Bolle’s body, not the mater­ial of the clothes he wears.

In a short inter­view by Stefano Tempo­fo­sco, Bolle is asked if he likes the shape of his body:

I do, espe­cially the mus­cu­lature of my legs. I like how my muscles are strong yet elong­ated, which are two oppos­ites that really only come together in a dancer’s body.… [con­tinue reading]

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Two Italian living legends together: Ferruccio Soleri, the greatest Arlecchino, and Carla Fracci, the greatest Giselle

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Sep 132012
 

Fer­ruc­cio Soleri (class of 1929) was the ori­ginal Arlec­chino in ’s legendary pro­duc­tion of Goldoni’s mas­ter­piece Ser­vant of Two Mas­ters (Arlec­chino ser­vitore di due padroni) for Milan’s Pic­colo Teatro. And he still is. He will be play­ing the role for the 53rd sea­son this year, and on tour in Argentina.

Here he is pic­tured with long-time friend and col­league (I wouldn’t reveal a lady’s age, but the two have 159 years between them!) whose with the remains a touch­stone in filmed bal­let performances.

Ferruccio Soleri Carla Fracci Two Italian living legends together: Ferruccio Soleri, the greatest Arlecchino, and Carla Fracci, the greatest Giselle… [con­tinue reading]

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The Mikhailovsky Theatre opens its new season tonight with Semionova and Gomes in Giselle

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Sep 132012
 

Semionova Gomes Mikhailovsky by Nikolai Krusser The Mikhailovsky Theatre opens its new season tonight with Semionova and Gomes in GiselleTonight the Mikhail­ovsky Theatre opens its 2012–2013 sea­son with dan­cing the eponym­ous heroine in .

Semi­onova left to join the Ber­lin Staat­soper imme­di­ately after gradu­at­ing from the Bolshoi Bal­let Academy. Coin­cid­ent­ally, earlier this week , the Music Dir­ector of the Ber­lin Staat­soper, gave a press con­fer­ence at the Mikhail­ovsky where he announced that on 5–6 Septem­ber 2013, he will per­form there with the Staat­skapelle orches­tra. This will be his first per­form­ance at the theatre, as tonight’s Gis­elle will be the first time Semi­onova per­forms her ‘sig­na­ture role’ at the Mikhailovsky.

Semi­onova is now vis­it­ing as a guest from the , where she became prima baller­ina just a few weeks ago, hav­ing left the Staat­soper after a ten-year col­lab­or­a­tion.… [con­tinue reading]

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‘Sleeping Beauty’ triumphs at the Bolshoi

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Nov 192011
 

Rus­sian news agency RIA Nov­osti reports that last night’s première of The at the Bolshoi, the first bal­let on the ren­ov­ated stage, was a great success.

The première was atten­ded by Rus­sian first couple Dmitry and Svet­lana Medvedev.

The new pro­duc­tion, which will be trans­mit­ted in cinemas around the world tomor­row, is by the Itali­ans Franca Squar­ciapino and Enzo Fri­gerio. The couple, lit­er­ally for they are life part­ners too, are well known for their col­lab­or­a­tion in bal­let with, above all, the Paris Opera and Rudolf Nureyev. They also had a legendary series of pro­duc­tions with one of the greatest stage dir­ect­ors of all time, , and many operas at La Scala. Squar­ciapino  won an for Best Cos­tume Design when they col­lab­or­ated on the French film  Cyrano de Ber­gerac in 1991.… [con­tinue reading]

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Battle of the pointes: Grishko and the threat of plastic

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Nov 032011
 

Grishko Battle of the pointes: Grishko and the threat of plasticNikolay Grishko runs the com­pany he foun­ded by in the late 1980s after accom­pa­ny­ing his pro­fes­sional dancer-wife Tamara dur­ing a French tour: Rus­sian dan­cers were bring­ing bal­let shoes from theatre work­shops at home to sell to European dancers.

Grishko resolved to exploit this mar­ket by organ­ising the Rus­sian work­shops to make bal­let shoes for export, and in doing so gave employ­ment to many crafts­men dur­ing the dif­fi­cult eco­nomic trans­ition of the 1990s. But what finally con­vinced Grishko to start his own busi­ness was when a Soviet trade organ­iz­a­tion respons­ible for sales to the United States approached him with a request to find pointe shoes for an Amer­ican dan­cer. The request sent him search­ing. But find­ing the shoes was not easy. By 1988, the theatre work­shops had already begun to fall apart and could hardly sup­ply them­selves, let alone external con­sumers.… [con­tinue reading]

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Excerpts of the Buenos Aires Ballet Gala 2011 on YouTube with Mathilde Froustey, Mathias Heymann, Natalia Osipova, Ivan Vasiliev and Daniil Simkin

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Oct 302011
 

On August 11 and 12 of this years dan­cers from the Amer­ican Bal­let Theatre, in Moscow, Paris National Opera, , Bejart Bal­let Lous­sane, Staatts Bal­let Ber­lin, the National Con­tem­por­ary Dance Com­pany and Bal­let of Teatro Colon gathered on stage at the Teatro Col­iseo of Buenos Aires.

The First Inter­na­tional Bal­let Gala fea­tured some of the best dan­cers of clas­sical, neo­clas­sical and con­tem­por­ary bal­let: Math­ilde Froustey and Math­ias Hey­mann who, two years ago, at 22, reached the rank of “dan­seur etoile” at the Paris Opera Bal­let; Nat­alia Osipova and , prin­cipal dan­cers at the Bolshoi;  of the Amer­ican Bal­let Theatre  and others.

These three con­tri­bu­tions to the gala are now on : Delibes Suite (Froustey/Heymann), Les Bour­geois (Simkin) and Don Quix­ote (Osipova/Vasiliev).… [con­tinue reading]

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