[Photo Album] First photos of The Royal Ballet’s Ashton Triple Bill
First photos of tonight’s Frederick Ashton triple bill with The Royal Ballet: Scènes de ballet, A Month in the Country, and Rhapsody.
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[Photo Album] 100% Cuban with Acosta Danza
Photographer Dasa Wharton photographed Acosta Danza’s three UK premieres: Hybrid, Liberto, and De Punta a Cabo, part of the programme 100% Cuban.
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[Photo Album] First peek at Balanchine’s Jewels which opens tonight at La Scala
Eighty photos of tonight’s opening cast in George Balanchine’s Jewels at Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
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[Photo Album] Prix de Lausanne finalists 2022
A photo album of the finalists for the Prix de Lausanne competition 2022.
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[Photo Album] Scottish Ballet Nutcracker resumes performances
The Scottish Government has announced that current Covid-19 restrictions will end, so Scottish Ballet can complete its tour of The Nutcracker
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[Photo Album] I Capuleti e i Montecchi at La Scala with Oropesa and Crebassa
Conductor Evelino Pidò withdrew from I Capuleti e i Montecchi at La Scala for Covid-linked motives a week before the dress rehearsal. Speranza Scappucci took over.
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[Photo Album] First peek at Marianela Nuñez and Federico Bonelli in Romeo and Juliet
As the curtain comes down, here’s a first look at Marianela Nuñez as Juliet and Federico Bonelli as Romeo in tonight’s cast at the Royal Opera House.
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[Photo album] First look at La Scala’s new Bayadère
Photo Album: After Covid disrupted opening night, La Scala’s new production of Rudolf Nureyev’s La Bayadère finally opens at La Scala
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[Photo Album] Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball in rehearsal
Dasa Wharton took her camera to The Royal Opera House to capture Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball in rehearsal for Giselle, and backstage during a performance.
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[Photo Album] Madina – Bigonzetti’s new ballet at La Scala
Photos of La Scala’s world premiere of Mauro Bigonzetti’s ballet “Madina” with Roberto Bolle and Antonella Albano
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Photo Album: The Royal Ballet, 21st Century Choreographers
Opening tonight is The Royal Ballet’s first programme since the latest lockdown began last year. A Live Stream of the performance on 28 May costs £16.
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Jonas Kaufmann: A Picture Journey – a glorious new book celebrates the tenor’s 50th birthday in photos
Jonas Kaufmann was 50 on 10 July this year. To celebrate, the esteemed Vienna-based publishing house Verlag für moderne Kunst has produced – in collaboration with Kaufmann – a glorious picture book with more than 400 photos, (including one photo by Gramilano, of Kaufmann on bended knee), and many are published for the first time….
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Marianela Nuñez on working with celebrity photographer Paola Kudacki for Humanity magazine
The photoshoot for Citizens of Humanity was a brilliant experience. says Royal Ballet principal dancer Marianela Nuñez who is featured in the 13th issue of the denim label’s magazine, Humanity. It is edited by celebrated photographer Paola Kudacki who has shot celebrities such as Beyoncé, Kate Winslet, Jane Fonda, Elton John… it’s a long list….
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A mesmerising new ballet art film – ‘missed nuance’ – captures movement like never before
After Niv Novak’s slow-motion dance project ‘extension’ in 2017, comes ‘missed nuance’, a similar project with a different look. Dancers from international ballet companies wore designer garments to be captured by exquisite lighting, and state-of-the-art filmmaking technology, to produce a work-of-art that showcases the extreme athleticism of dance, but also its sublime beauty, all in…
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The Style of Movement: Fashion and Dance – dance photography from NYC Dance Project
Ken Browar and Deborah Ory – the husband-and-wife team behind the NYCDance Project – have their second dance photography book coming out next week: The Style of Movement: Fashion and Dance.
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Photo album: Gala Les Étoiles at Ravenna Festival with international ballet stars
Dorothée Gilbert and Hugo Marchand (Paris Opera Ballet), Jacopo Tissi and Alena Kovaleva (Bolshoi Ballet), Bakhtiyar Adamzhan (Astana Opera, Kazakhstan), Tatiana Melnik (Hungarian National Ballet), Constantine Allen, Anna Tsygankova, Young Gyu Choi and Rebecca Storani (Dutch National Ballet), Sergio Bernal (Spanish National Ballet) Daniele Cipriani’s galas, Les Étoiles, have become staples of the ballet stars’ calendar with top names participating from Russia,…
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Nike wins Michael Jordan grand jeté case
In 1984, Jacobus Rentmeester, then a student, photographed basketball star Michael Jordan for Life magazine. The photo was part of a photo essay featuring American athletes who would soon be competing in the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. Rentmeester’s claimed that Nike infringed his copyright when it later commissioned its own photograph of Jordan and then used…
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Rick Guest on his extraordinary photos of The Royal Ballet’s Edward Watson
In Conversation: Edward Watson and Rick Guest is an opportunity to see dancer and photographer talking about their collaboration which has led to an extraordinary portfolio of portraits. Striking in their boldness yet sensitivity, Guest has caught precisely what Watson brings to the stage: the same boldness and sensitivity, together with exceptional honesty, as revealed…
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Photographer Barbara Luisi’s nude photos of the elderly, including the Japanese master Eikoh Hosoe
Photographer Barbara Luisi‘s latest exhibition AKT – Ageless Beauty in Tokyo celebrates the naked bodies of the over-80s, which makes for a striking companion piece to her black and white collection of 1000-year-old olive trees. Olive trees which have lived for more than 1000 years fully bear fruit. Likewise, there are many people who have…
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‘extension’, a project to slow time in dance – stunning video clips from Niv Novak
extension reel 007 – Ako Kondo & Chengwu Guo from Niv Novak Photography on Vimeo. Photographer Niv Novak has created a collection of stunning video clips of dance moves, stretched out in gloriously detailed slow motion. They are already causing a social media stir, and Novak will be adding other clips to the series during…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Lauren Cuthbertson and other Royal Ballet dancers grace the pages of Town and Country – sneak peek!
Royal Ballet dancers Lauren Cuthbertson, Marcelino Sambé, Anna Rose O’Sullivan, Hannah Grennell and Gina Storm- Jenson grace the pages of the Winter 2016 issue of Town and Country magazine. A suitably festive shoot celebrates the Nutcracker in and around an Oxfordshire mansion. The magazine’s Deputy Editor, Lydia Slater, writes, Within moments of my arrival at…
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Osservatorio – Fondazione Prada inaugurates its new photographic exhibition space
In December, Fondazione Prada will unveil its new exhibition space, Osservatorio, dedicated to photography and visual languages and located in Milan’s iconic Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, which sits between La Scala and the Duomo. It was in the Galleria that Mario Prada opened his first shop in 1913 and over a century later it is…
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The Art of Movement – a glorious new book from NYC Dance Project
NYC Dance Project – husband and wife team, Ken Browar and Deborah Ory – have produced some of the most widely circulated images of dance on the internet. Leaps and other gymnastic feats will always be shared and liked more than most, but what makes Browar and Ory’s photos stand out is that they communicate…
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In pictures – Ardani Artists’ Tour de Force III at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Tour de Force III at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts was subtitled, a Dance Spectacular. In effect, the event brought many exceptional talents together, as is Ardani Artists‘ custom, and it was also Sergei Polunin‘s debut on America’s West Coast, something for Californians to get excited about. He was dancing with Natalia Osipova in…
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ABT’s Misty Copeland counterattacks after photoshopping allegations: “I’m happy and proud of my body”
American Ballet Theatre’s Misty Copeland posted a photo on her Instagram account last week by New York based photographer Gregg Delman. The photo is from his new book called, sensibly, Misty Copeland by Gregg Delman. Who would have imagined the storm it whipped up. @greggdelmanphoto A photo posted by Misty Copeland (@mistyonpointe) on Sep 24, 2016 at 6:46pm PDT…
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Photographer Barbara Luisi brings the mystique of Puglia’s olive trees to New York
Twelve black and white photos of trees might not grab your attention immediately, though if I add that they are millennium-old olive trees from Puglia, presented as large-format prints exhibited in the ISAIA Showroom in Madison Avenue as seen through the perceptive and sensual lens of Barbara Luisi, you’ll certainly want to take a look. Art critic…
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Photo gallery of Czech National Ballet’s triple bill: Rain, Vertigo and Cacti
The Czech National Ballet‘s triple bill Vertigo debuted in June and photographer Dasa Wharton was there to record it. The contemporary programme featured Radu Poklitaru’s Rain, Alexander Ekman‘s Cacti and the piece from which the evening drew its title, Mauro Bigonzetti‘s Vertigo. Rain by Radu Poklitaru music by Bach, Jacques Brel together with folk songs The young,…
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