Luisa Spinatelli… taking tasteful to a higher dimension The Amici della Scala (Friends of La Scala), run by the indefatigable Anna Crespi, gathered together at the association’s spectacular headquarters, a short walk from La Scala, to celebrate one of Italy’s most important theatre designers.Luisa Spinatelli is one of a tight-knit core of Milanese artists, by birth or … [Read more...]
Photo Album: English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer Award 2017
Rina Kanehara and Aitor Arrieta were announce as joint winners of English National Ballet's 2017 Emerging Dancer Award, at the end of last month.Finalists performed a pas de deux and a contemporary solo in front of a live audience at Sadler’s Wells and the event was also streamed receiving 89,000 views worldwide.Rina Kanehara and Aitor Arrieta were selected as this … [Read more...]
Ann Ray photographs Dorothée Gilbert and István Simon rehearsing Giselle
The Paris Opera Ballet’s Dorothée Gilbert and István Simon, principal with Dresden’s Semperoper Ballett, are rehearsing Giselle for the 30th Rudolf Nureyev International Ballet Festival at the Kazan Opera in Russia.Ann Ray was there to capture some moments in the Rotonde Zambelli, named after the Milanese dancer and Paris ballet star, Carlotta Zambelli. It is one of the two … [Read more...]
Picasso in Rome, with Diaghilev, Cocteau and Massine: The Ballets Russes and Parade
One hundred years ago, Pablo Picasso lived Rome for two months. It was his first trip to Italy. The Ballets Russes was in town and Picasso was eager to begin work on his designs for Parade, the ballet which would open on 18 May 1917 in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet.Two years previously, Picasso had found himself relatively alone in Paris. His mistress Eva Gouel had died … [Read more...]
Ballerinas of Cairo “reclaiming the streets for women”?
"Bringing Cairo's dance and photography communities together..." is how the Ballerinas of Cairo defines its Instagram account. The BBC, however, thinks it's more than that: The Ballerinas of Cairo are refusing to be intimidated by the recent terrorist attacks that shook the Egyptian capital. Instead, they're taking to the streets. saying that its aim is to "reclaim the … [Read more...]