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Another Royal Ballet dancer joins the cast of Cats the movie – Olivia Cowley

ByGramilano Reading Time: 2 minutes
Balanchine's Apollo with Olivia Cowley as Calliope © ROH, Dave Morgan
Balanchine's Apollo with Olivia Cowley as Calliope © ROH, Dave Morgan

faces the possibility of ever more complicated cast changes on the Covent Garden stage when filming of the adaptation of the ‘s stage musical musical Cats begins as another dancer is chosen for the movie cast.

Soloist Olivia Cowley will be joining her colleagues and on the set of Universal Pictures and Working Title’s project which has (Old Deuteronomy), Ian McKellen (Gus The Theatre Cat), Idris Elba (Macavity), Jennifer Hudson (Grizabella), Taylor Swift and James Corden among the cast.

English dancer Cowley was promoted to Soloist in 2013 and has created numerous roles for , including Raven (Raven Girl) and roles in Multiverse, Carbon Life and Acis and Galatea. It is not her first time away from The Royal Ballet – she appeared in Nicholas Hytner’s production of Timon of Athens at the National Theatre in 2012.

Eric Underwood and Olivia Cowley in The Nutcracker, The Royal Ballet © ROH, Johan Persson, 2009
Eric Underwood and Olivia Cowley in The Nutcracker, The Royal Ballet © ROH, Johan Persson, 2009
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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.

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