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Anna Rose O'Sullivan after her début as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, photo by Marcelino Sambé

Anna Rose O’Sullivan – meeting the Royal Ballet’s newest star

Royal Ballet principal dancer Anna Rose O’Sullivan talks about her debuts, her partners, coaching, style and being Juliet.
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[Interview] Choreographer Hervé Koubi – If we can dance together, we can live together

Interview with French choreographer Hervé Koubi on his social and cultural ideas and ideals and his ‘touching, theatrical and important’ dance works.
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[Review] Madina – a courageous new dance work at La Scala

Madina is ambitious in its scale and subject (terrorism and violence against women) with a score by Fabio Vacchi and choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti.
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Carla Fracci is buried in Milan’s Famedio

Today, in a private ceremony, Carla Fracci’s ashes were interred in Milan’s Cimitero Monumentale (Monumental Cemetery) in Milan.
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Zappalà Danza’s exquisite 30th Anniversary show: Redoing Bach

For the 30th anniversary of Compagnia Zappalà Danza, Italy’s top contemporary troupe, choreographer Roberto Zappalà has created Rifare Bach (Redoing Bach).
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The Hervé Koubi company in Milan: touching, theatrical and important

The French-Algerian choreographer Hervé Koubi triumphed at the MILANoLTRE contemporary dance festival with three magnificent works.
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Sergei Polunin: 700 years of inferno, purgatory and paradise

Interview with Sergei Polunin, dancer and choreographer of Dante Metànoia at the Ravenna Festival.
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Ballet22 – mxn en pointe

Ballet22 pushes the boundaries in ballet by breaking gender stereotypes, specifically by presenting men, mxn, and non-binary artists en pointe.
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Roberto Bolle interview: Who I am now

Roberto Bolle talks about starting out in dance, maintaining his body, striving for perfection, Covid and being a lover of simple things.
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Bolshoi Ballet director on injury, race, harassment and a new theatre

Makhar Vaziev, director of the Bolshoi Ballet company, talks about the most discussed problems in ballet today, and wanting a third theatre for the Bolshoi.
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GRAHAM SPICER

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. I was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. My scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times. I write the ‘Danza in Italia’ column for Dancing Times magazine.

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