When I went to cover Mara Galeazzi's farewell gala with Royal Ballet colleagues in Verona last month, I took my camera for a couple of backstage shots. Well I ended up taking hundreds of photos during the rehearsals, and 160 of these are now viewable on Flickr.
Dodging the mosquitoes that arrived with dusk, I managed to capture something of those emotional couple of days, as Mara got ready to hang up her pointe shoes for (almost?) the last time.
But never say never…
Photo: Mara Galeazzi & Edward Watson rehearsing MacMillan's Manon
Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.
His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.
These are utterly ravishing. Thank you for putting them up.
I’m also using the moment to say thank you for the La Scala/ Manon/ Sylvie Guillem videos, which I’ve watched numerous times, what a treat.
Thank you so much for saying thank you; it’s greatly appreciated!