The Bolshoi’s golden couple Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova come out tops at the 11th Critics’ Circle Dance Awards
The Bolshoi Ballet took the most prizes at the 11th Critics’ Circle Dance Awards held at Sadler’s Wells.
The awards given out were:
De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement – Jann Parry, Alistair Spalding
Outstanding Female Performance (Classical) – Martha Leebolt (Northern Ballet)
Outstanding Male Performance (Modern) – Daniel Proietto, for work with Russell Maliphant company
Best Foreign Dance Company – The Bolshoi Ballet
Best Classical Choreography – Liam Scarlett for Asphodel Meadows by the Royal Ballet
Outstanding Female Performance (Modern) – Pieter Symonds, Rambert Dance
Outstanding Male Performance (Classical) – Vadim Muntagirov, English National Ballet
Best Modern Choreography – Russell Maliphant for Afterlight
Jane Attenborough Dance UK Industry Award – Gill Clarke MBE
Best Female Dancer – Natalia Osipova, the Bolshoi Ballet
Outstanding Company – Rambert Dance
The Dancing Times Award for Best Male Dancer – Ivan Vasilev, the Bolshoi Ballet
Graham Spicer, aka ‘Gramilano’, is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Carla Fracci.
Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in many books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.
He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.
