Isaac Hernández answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
On holiday in Tulum, Mexico Q&A When did you start dancing?…
Julio Bocca talks about his emotional 50th Birthday Gala in New York this Friday
Youth America Grand Prix celebrates Julio Bocca on his 50th Birthday, as part of its…
Julian Mackay on entering and winning the Prix de Lausanne 2015
Julian Mackay photographed by Quinn Wharton at the Bolshoi Theatre Seventeen-year-old…
Sylvie Guillem shines in Forsythe’s Steptext in Florence
Various off-stage dramas lead up to Sylvie Guillem’s participation in MaggioDanza’s Great Choreographers programme. The second…
Photo Album: Nureyev Gala at La Scala – Zakharova, Louvet, Nuñez, Muntagirov and Bolle (and Nureyev at La Scala facts and figures)
In conversation with Marianela Nuñez
Backstage at the Nutcracker with the English National Ballet
[caption id="attachment_187186" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Dancers of English National Ballet as Snowflakes – photo by ASH…
Roberto Bolle on why Natalie Portman should give back her Oscar… and more
Monica Vaglietti, the ballet dancer with thirteen Greyhounds
Monica Vaglietti with her thirteen Greyhounds Monica Vaglietti is a corps…
Matthew Ball – The Royal Ballet’s prince in waiting?
Cynthia Harvey answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? At age 8. A short time ago. Why did…
Young American at the Bolshoi: Julian MacKay wins Sochi and Istanbul medals
[caption id="attachment_98421" align="alignright" width="492"] Maria Sascha and I celebrating my Gold Medal at Istanbul! The…
Save the best until last – La Scala’s triple bill shows a company in excellent form
Julien Favreau is mesmerising in Boléro at La Scala
[caption id="attachment_1013981" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Julien Favreau dancing Boléro ©BBL, Ilia Chkolnik And so Julien Favreau…
Svetlana Zakharova: When they cut my costume in half
Svetlana Zakharova Svetlana Zakharova knows that a lot of jealousy surrounds her…
Interview: Who is Jacopo Tissi? The Bolshoi’s enigmatic Italian star talks about Moscow, Milan and London, “It certainly wasn’t easy”
Interview with The Royal Ballet’s hot couple: Francesca Hayward and Alexander Campbell
[caption id="attachment_1013647" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Giselle with Alexander Campbell as Albrecht and Francesca Hayward as Giselle….
Interview: The Royal Ballet’s Ballet Master, Christopher Carr, on mounting Coppélia, the company’s dancers and technique
[caption id="attachment_1018898" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Coppélia with Vadim Muntagirov and Marianela Nunez, photo by Bill Cooper…
At La Scala: Tamara Rojo and Claudio Coviello in a winning Don Quixote
[caption id="attachment_140941" align="alignright" width="500"] Tamara Rojo and Claudio Coviello – photo Brescia and Amisano Teatro…
Walter Venditti: the 84-year-old ballet teacher who keeps Milan on its toes
Milan is the sort of city which empties as soon as holidays arrive, and in…
António Casalinho – Introducing the 17-year-old Portuguese Dancer
Lisa-Maree Cullum answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A [caption id="attachment_185849" align="alignright" width="482"] 5-year-old Lisa-Maree dressed for her tap exam, Papua New Guinea…
Marianela Nuñez celebrates 20 years with The Royal Ballet
Serenade. Marianela Nuñez. cROH, Tristram Kenton, 2014 Incredibly, this February Marianela…
Notes on Le Corsaire at La Scala… an alternative cast
McGregor’s Woolf Works thrills and enthralls at La Scala
[caption id="attachment_1016586" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Woolf Works, I now, I then, with Federico Bonelli, Caterina Bianchi,…
Yasmine Naghdi – the birth of a ballerina
[caption id="attachment_186021" align="alignright" width="336"] One of Yasmine Naghdi’s audition photos in the last year of…
Introducing Rebecca Bianchi, Rome Opera Ballet’s new Principal ballerina
At the end of The Nutcracker at Rome’s Teatro Nazionale on 20 December last year,…
Julio Bocca answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? When I was 4 my mother started to teach…
Martina Arduino and Marco Agostino make extraordinary role debuts in Don Quixote at La Scala
[caption id="attachment_1014700" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Don Quixote with Martina Arduino and Marco Agostino © Brescia e…
La Scala dancers talk about being in Ratmansky’s Swan Lake
[caption id="attachment_188865" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Swan Lake rehearsal – photo by Brescia and Amisano Teatro alla…
[Interview] The Royal Ballet’s Yasmine Naghdi: a time to reflect
David Ashley and the secrets of a pantomime dame
[caption id="attachment_187205" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] David Ashley in Dick Whittington, Wyvern Theatre, Swindon I am a…
Vladimir Shklyarov answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A [на русском языке] When did you start dancing? I’ve suffered since childhood — my…
Sergei Polunin on sex change, his new girlfriend, and manning up
In an interview, before several appearances in the Italian peninsula over the next two months,…
Tamara Karsavina compares Rudolf Nureyev and Vaslav Nijinsky
Tamara Karsavina and Vaslav Nijinsky in Le Spectre de la rose…
Autistic ballet dancer James Hobley wins place at English National Ballet School
James Hobley – photo by Nicola Selby James Hobley, a fifteen…
Diana Vishneva: the Vaganova Academy gave me freedom to move in any way I choose
Agrippina Vaganova Diana Vishneva feels passionately about the Vaganova Ballet Academy, from…
Sarah Lamb on débuting at La Scala in Manon with Claudio Coviello
Baryshnikov is extraordinary as Nijinsky in Letter to a Man
Aged fifty, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, I don’t believe in ageing. I believe…
Preview: Nureyev the film is a glorious celebration of an exceptional life
Nureyev is an important new documentary about Rudolf Nureyev’s extraordinary life which will be shown…
BALLET2000 Prix presents Maya Plisetskaya Awards in Cannes
The first edition of the Awards handed out by the dance magazine BALLET2000 were in…
Ballet22 – mxn en pointe
Tamara Rojo on Pina Bausch whose “work transcends description… speaking to your spirit”
[caption id="attachment_190220" align="aligncenter" width="740"] Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in Le Sacre du Printemps, photo by…
Julien Favreau answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A [caption id="attachment_1013895" align="alignright" width="345"] Julien Favreau in Lausanne, portrait by Yoko Inoue When did…
Introducing 19-year-old Canadian dancer Shale Wagman: from Lausanne to ENB to the Mariinsky
Rothko in Rome: an interview with Carolyn Carlson
[caption id="attachment_67145" align="alignright" width="348"] Dialogue with Rothko – Carolyn Carlson – photo © Yoshi Omori…
Julian MacKay – the teenage American ballet dancer making waves in Russia
After a performance as James Julian MacKay at 16 was winning…
Dutch National Ballet’s Marijn Rademaker on injury and recovery
[Interview] Baryshnikov on the Venice Biennale, death and laying himself bare
The impeccable Bolshoi dancers in Maillot’s slick Taming of the Shrew at La Scala
[caption id="attachment_1015027" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Ekaterina Krysanova and Vladislav Lantratov in The Taming of the Shrew,…
18-year-old Vincenzo di Primo on winning at Lausanne and studying at the Vienna Ballet Academy
[caption id="attachment_188332" align="alignright" width="500"] Dancing Basilio during the Lausanne final 18-year-old Vincenzo di Primo was…
Baryshnikov and Bob Wilson take on Nijinsky in Milan: Letter to a Man
Baryshnikov and Nijinsky as Petrushka Mikhail Baryshnikov and Bob Wilson have…
[Review] Madina – a courageous new dance work at La Scala
Interview with The Royal Ballet’s Lauren Cuthbertson – so much passion
Interview: For The Royal Ballet’s Yasmine Naghdi it’s “Ready, Steady, Go”!
Yasmine Naghdi prepares for Gamzatti, photo by Dasa Wharton Interview with…
The Royal Ballet’s new star-crossed lovers: Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball
Marianela Nuñez on working with celebrity photographer Paola Kudacki for Humanity magazine
[caption id="attachment_1018695" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Humanity magazine, issue 13 The photoshoot for Citizens of Humanity was…
Kevin O’Hare interview: It’s an exciting time for The Royal Ballet
Kevin O’Hare – photo © Joe Plimmer This is an exciting…
Ratmansky’s Sleeping Beauty in Milan casts its magic spell
Svetlana Zakharova in The Sleeping Beauty – photo by Brescia and…
Martina Arduino answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Martina Arduino in Romeo and Juliet, photo Brescia e Amisano, Teatro…
