Florenz Ziegfeld created his Follies in 1907, and the successful format continued on Broadway until 1931. The Ziegfeld Follies were extraordinarily elaborate revues inspired by the Folies Bergères in …
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.
Pia Russo is a highly respected Italian ballet teacher, currently working at the Ballet School of Teatro San Carlo in Naples, one of the world’s …
Summer months in Italy boast many ballet galas: Bolle & Friends, Abbagnato & Friends… who doesn’t want to tour the glorious piazze of Italy: fantastic …
Roberto Bolle talks about starting out in dance, maintaining his body, striving for perfection, Covid and being a lover of simple things.
Q&A
When did you start dancing?
When I was 3.
Why did you start dancing?
My mum had a ballet school and when I saw the other children moving …
Ballet22 pushes the boundaries in ballet by breaking gender stereotypes, specifically by presenting men, mxn, and non-binary artists en pointe.
Q&A
When did you start dancing?
When I was about 7, in a very small ballet school in France where we were only 4 boys!
Why did you …
John Cranko’s ballet Onegin was brought to La Scala in 1993 as a vehicle for Carla Fracci with Rex Harrington in the title role. It …
Natalia Osipova, down to dance with Ivan Vssiliev in Rubies at Teatro alla Scala, was indisposed for the dress rehearsal, the first night, and has …
Milan’s newspaper, the most influential Italian paper, Il Corriere della Sera, almost ignored La Raymonda at La Scala last week, with Valeria Crippa’s short article dismissing it …
Today, in a private ceremony, Carla Fracci’s ashes were interred in Milan’s Cimitero Monumentale (Monumental Cemetery) in Milan.
The La Scala Ballet usually fields a first cast, and several alternative casts, but not with Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works – here it was very …
And so Julien Favreau shows how it should be done.
I find myself in Rome writing this review, and so the phrase “Rome wasn’t built in …
The indefatigable Maina Gielgud is a freelance stager, guest teacher and coach. In 1983, two years after leaving her successful and varied career as a …
Q&A
When did you start dancing?
I was 8 years old. My father was teaching me in the backyard of our house.
Why did you start dancing? …
Everyone who has followed The Royal Ballet in rehearsal during World Ballet Day or watched the interval clips and interviews during the intervals of the …
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 …
The Royal Ballet’s Argentinian principal dancer, Marianela Nuñez, is in lockdown in Buenos Aires. She went there to be near her family and partner, because …
Various off-stage dramas lead up to Sylvie Guillem’s participation in MaggioDanza’s Great Choreographers programme. The second performance became the première after strike action cancelled Monday’s performance. …
Q&A
in italiano
When did you start dancing?
I started dancing for fun when I was four, and more seriously when I was 11 after I was accepted …
Teatro Colón in Bogotá reopens tomorrow night after a six-year restoration.
Ten dancers from the Royal Ballet and the English National Ballet will help to get …
Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘reconstruction’ of The Sleeping Beauty at La Scala made for one of the most interesting and satisfying evenings that I’ve had in the …
Madina is ambitious in its scale and subject (terrorism and violence against women) with a score by Fabio Vacchi and choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti.
Wayne McGregor
We’re so excited to bring Woolf Works to La Scala. It’s an amazing historic stage and the work is going to be fantastic in …
Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West in 1961 and later that same year he danced with Margot Fonteyn for the first time, and the following …
Dame Darcey Bussell talks about loves and dislikes from Astaire to Jane Fonda, from Chorus Line to Romeo & Juliet, from dyslexia to diamond earrings.
I’m enjoying a new chapter in my life having the fortune to play women of my age and not romantic roles like the Giselles, Carmens, …
Mikhail Baryshnikov will open this year’s Biennale di Venezia in the world premiere of Not Once, an ‘art installation with film’ by Jan Fabre.
Italian dancer Valentino Zucchetti is one of a large number of Italian dancers who go abroad to find work and realise their dreams.
Italy has few ballet …
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Anna Maria Prina was the director of the La Scala Theatre Ballet School for thirty-two years, producing artists such as Mara Galeazzi, Massimo Murru, Roberto Bolle, Mick Zeni, …
Balanchine’s The Nutcracker is new to La Scala, in fact, new to Italy. And how the Scala regulars were relishing in the opportunity to grumble …
In 2012, Ivan Putrov had the conceit to produce an all-male gala where Don Q variations were banished, Le Corsaire’s jetés outlawed, and Albrecht’s entrechats …
Alexei Ratmansky’s reconstruction of Marius Petipa’s Swan Lake was rapturously received by almost all the critics when it premiered in Zurich in February. Alastair Macaulay …
En Avant is a “New Non-Profit Foundation for Specialised Ballet Coaching, Mentoring and the Awarding of Scholarships”. The Foundation is new, but what is it offering …
Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball are about to make a joint début as the young lovers in Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet. It is part …
Aged fifty, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary,
I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
This is exactly what …
Three years ago, Jacopo Tissi left La Scala to join the Bolshoi Company in Moscow. Makhar Vaziev, the Company’s current director, was previously the director …
Seventeen-year-old Julian Mackay is one of the six winners of this year’s Prix de Lausanne. He is part of the extraordinary Khan-MacKay family which boasts …
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Bob Wilson have been in Milan rehearsing their new project: Letter to a Man, inspired by the diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky,
The diaries …
English National Ballet’s exciting Bausch / Forsythe / van Manen programme arrives at Sadler’s Wells in March. Pina Bausch’s masterpiece The Rite of Spring must be the …
Anna-Marie Holmes created her version of Le Corsaire for Boston ballet in 1997. A year later it arrived in New York when it was loaned …
Last August, young ballet dancer Jacopo Tissi, resigned from the La Scala Ballet to accept the offer a contract with the Bolshoi Company. As I …
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 …
Q&A
When did you start dancing?
I started dancing when I was 8 years old.
Why did you start dancing?
After seeing my younger sister (Demelza Parish currently with …
A tribute by Ioannides Yiannakis
In 29 December 1984, after a memorable performance of Swan Lake at the Paris Opera, the great Rudolf Nureyev named an extraordinary …
One day, when I was finishing the last pages of The Firebird in St Petersburg [in 1910], I had a fleeting vision… I saw in my imagination …
Q&A
When did you start dancing?
At age 8. A short time ago.
Why did you start dancing?
Apparently I preferred it to walking; actually I still do. …
You were recently promoted to First Soloist at the Mariinsky Ballet. Happy?
Yes, I was promoted after a show of Giselle back in January and it …
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[на русском языке]
When did you start dancing?
I’ve suffered since childhood — my Mum wanted me to do it.
Why did you start dancing?
Because I was forced …
Today is the 80th birthday of the Italian ballerina, Carla Fracci.
She was born in Milan on 20 August 1936.
To celebrate we asked fellow ballerinas, as …
Aszure Barton has created a gem of a ballet for Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. Mahler 10 uses the first movement of Gustav Mahler’s unfinished Tenth …
Q&A
When did you start dancing?
When I was 3 years old. My grandparents didn’t know how to keep me occupied so they bought a video of …
Interview with Sergei Polunin, dancer and choreographer of Dante Metànoia at the Ravenna Festival.
After more than a decade with Birmingham Royal Ballet, Principal Dancer Joseph Caley has packed his bags and headed south to join Tamara Rojo and …
Salsa, merengue and mambo… that’s how I started dancing.
So says Davide Dato, Principal Dancer at the Vienna State Ballet. Many classical dancers began in their …
Milan is the sort of city which empties as soon as holidays arrive, and in Italy there are lots of holidays. The schools are shut …
Marianela Núñez is an extraordinary dancer who seems to possess an inner light which not only makes her glow, but illuminates everyone around her. There …
After being introduced to Julian Mackay, and his whole dancing family, three years ago by his sister Maria Sascha Khan – now First Soloist with the Ekaterinburg …
