To get an insider’s view of dance-related injuries, some leading dancers talked to Gramilano about their experiences – how they coped both physically and mentally…
Tamara Rojo and Claudio Coviello – photo Brescia and Amisano Teatro alla Scala What an extraordinary dancer Tamara Rojo is. Here…
Q&A Julien Favreau in Lausanne, portrait by Yoko Inoue When did you start dancing? When I was about 7, in a…
Sergei Polunin and Natalia Osipova in Giselle at La Scala – Photo by Brescia & Amisano Sergei Polunin was in Milan…
Alessandra Ferri Io Donna I’m enjoying a new chapter in my life having the fortune to play women of my age…
Maria Sascha and I celebrating my Gold Medal at Istanbul! The (other) American at the Bolshoi, 16-year-old Julian MacKay, has been…
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in Le Sacre du Printemps, photo by Ulli Weiss © Pina Bausch Foundation English National Ballet’s exciting Bausch…
Dancers of English National Ballet as Snowflakes – photo by ASH My first ballet experience was going to see the Nutcracker…
Alicia Alonso 1955 I was fascinated by dance when I was very young, and after my first lesson I said to…
Nikolai Tsiskaridze – photo by Ilya Grigoriev/RIA Novosti Forget the Royal Ballet School or the The School of American Ballet, Nikolai…
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…
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…
Illustration by Gianluigi Toccafondo for the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma One hundred years ago, Pablo Picasso lived Rome for two months.…
Mats Ek presents his last ever piece of choreography tonight until 10 January in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on the first stop of…
Maurice Béjart’s Gaîté parisienne with Marijn Rademaker – photo by Stuttgarter Ballet ‘Being injured is part of our job, it happens,…
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…
Mats Ek’s Bye with Sylvie Guillem – photo by Bill Cooper 2015 Sylvie Guillem is an extraordinary creature: exuding a special…
Swedish ballerina Nikisha Fogo will soon take up a new position in a new company when she becomes a principal dancer at San Francisco Ballet.…
In the ‘60s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was all the rage: Benjamin Britten’s opera premiered in 1960, Balanchine’s ballet opened in 1962, Ashton’s The Dream…
Q&A Xander Parish – photo by Sila Avvakum When did you start dancing? I started dancing when I was 8 years…
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…
Erik Bruhn choreographed a version of Romeo and Juliet which he and Carla Fracci danced with the Rome Opera Ballet in 1966. The balcony scene…
Bella Ratchinskaia Accusations of abuse at Vienna State Opera’s Ballet Academy quickly travelled the world, from The Guardian to the New…
Dialogue with Rothko – Carolyn Carlson – photo © Yoshi Omori “It’s very difficult to tour now in Italy with its…
Woolf Works with Alessandra Ferri and Federico Bonelli © ROH, 2015 Tristram Kenton Wayne McGregor We’re so excited to bring Woolf…
David Ashley in Dick Whittington, Wyvern Theatre, Swindon I am a three-bun wig, brown-booted, very large, maternal bosom sort of a…
Francesco Gabriele Frola. Photo By Karolina Kuras, 2016 Italian ballet dancer Francesco Gabriele Frola has been promoted to Principal Dancer of…
Questions and answers with Roberto Bolle including whether he thinks Natalie Portman deserves her Oscar for the film Black Swan, and the most beautiful woman…
After the success of Letter to a Man at the Spoleto Festival in July, Mikhail Baryshnikov will resume his role as Nijinsky on 11 September…
Sarah Lamb in Manon – photo by Johan Persson, Royal Opera House As has already been reported, the on-off-on-off again tale…
Q&A When did you start dancing? When I was three years-old. Why did you start dancing? I was born to dance! Which dancer inspired you…
On 14 March 2020, The Royal Ballet’s principal dancer Lauren Cuthbertson was dancing Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty on the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre……
Golden anniversaries are occasions to celebrate and for a dancing school what could be better than having Carla Fracci give her first public masterclass; Mats…
Mara Galeazzi & Edward Watson rehearse MacMillan’s Manon Sarah Lamb, Marianela Nuñez, Gary Avis, Steven McRae, Thiago Soares and Edward Watson celebrate Mara Galeazzi As…
Giselle with Alexander Campbell as Albrecht and Francesca Hayward as Giselle. © ROH, Helen Maybanks 2018 Francesca Hayward and Alexander Campbell…
Martina Arduino in Romeo and Juliet, photo Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala Q&A in italiano When did you start dancing?…
George Balanchine’s Symphony in C with Martina Arduino and Nicola Del Freo © School of American Ballet 2019 Save the best…
Nicholas and Julian MacKay outside the Bolshoi Theatre June 2013 Dancing, like acting and singing, often runs in the family. There…
Dame Darcey Bussell talks about loves and dislikes from Astaire to Jane Fonda, from Chorus Line to Romeo & Juliet, from dyslexia to diamond earrings.
After a performance as James Julian MacKay at 16 was winning medals at the Sochi and Istanbul competitions when he represented…
Ekaterina Krysanova and Vladislav Lantratov in The Taming of the Shrew, photo by Damir Yusupov Lots of empty seats were available…
The first edition of the Awards handed out by the dance magazine BALLET2000 were in 2004 when Maya Plisetskaya was presented with the main Prix…
When Roberto Bolle popped out and in of the closet four years ago internet forums and gossip rags foamed at the mouth. Openly gay ballet…
In 2007, I entered the stage as Romeo and I honestly thought that I was living the dream. I was on the Royal Opera House…
Serata Nureyev Défilé finale, photo by Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala Last night a Gala to celebrate Rudolf Nureyev was…
Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko rehearse Swan Lake in costume – photo by Brescia and Amisano Teatro alla Scala Alexei Ratmansky’s…
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…
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…
Q&A Francesca Hayward after her début in Frederick Ashton’s Rhapsody – Royal Ballet When did you start dancing? When I was…
Humanity magazine, issue 13 The photoshoot for Citizens of Humanity was a brilliant experience. says Royal Ballet principal dancer Marianela Nuñez…
James Hobley Publicity Shot James Hobley, first known to the general public as a Britain’s Got Talent finalist in 2011, has…
Q&A 5-year-old Lisa-Maree dressed for her tap exam, Papua New Guinea When did you start dancing? When I was 3. Why…
Julian Mackay photographed by Quinn Wharton at the Bolshoi Theatre Seventeen-year-old Julian Mackay is one of the six winners of this…
[caption id="attachment_1016586" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Woolf Works, I now, I then, with Federico Bonelli, Caterina Bianchi, Alessandra Ferri, Mick Zeni and Agnese Di Clemente, photo by…
[caption id="attachment_1017823" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Johan Kobborg’s Romeo and Juliet with Sergei Polunin and Alina Cojocaru, Verona 2019 Johan Kobborg asked David Umenoto to design the…
Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko with the corps de ballet – photo Brescia and Amisano Teatro alla Scala Alexei Ratmansky’s reconstruction…
Edward Watson and Ivan Putrov in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake In 2012, Ivan Putrov had the conceit to produce an all-male…
Lettres sur les arts imitateurs en général, et sur la danse en particulier If you read November’s edition of Dancing Times…
