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José Manuel Carreño and the Feijoo sisters on Dancing with the Stars

ByGramilano 13 April 201113 April 2011 Reading Time: 1 minute

As part of Classical Week on America’s Dancing With The Stars, the season’s first “Macy’s Stars of Dance” performance featured three of the most famous ballet dancers in America today, though all three are Cuban. They danced a specially choreographed segment from “Swan Lake.”

Lorena and Lorna Feijoo, principles for the San Francisco Ballet and Boston Ballet, danced with José Manuel Carreño, of the American Ballet Theatre.

The Los Angeles Times quipped,

The Macy’s Stars of Dance performance was a real treat. Of course, they were capitalizing on the Oscar and box-office success of “Black Swan,” but I absolutely loved this rendition of “Swan Lake” created especially for “DWTS”…

… Love how the show has gotten so classy with the serious ballet pedigree, yet still maintains its fun-loving “DWTS” disposition with the audience cheering the dancers on. Hoity-toity and hoi polloi unite. Bravo to all!”

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Gramilano

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 Italian ballerina 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.