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

On August 11 and 12 of this years dancers from the American Ballet Theatre, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Paris National Opera, New York City Ballet, 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 Ivan Vasiliev, principal dancers at the Bolshoi; Daniil Simkin of the American Ballet Theatre  and others.

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

Gramilano Editor

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.