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[Interview] Alessandra Ferri, part one: “The voice of the soul is immense”

Alessandra Ferri talks about dancing in her fifties, her interrupted retirement, dealing with pain, and advice from Carla Fracci.
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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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Madina - 52 - Antonella Albano and Roberto Bolle, photo by Brescia e Amisano ©Teatro alla Scala

[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 in Paradiso, photo by Silvia Lelli

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 in Waves by Massimiliano Volpini, photo by Andrej Uspenski (4)

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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INTERVIEWS

Bella Ratchinskaia

Bella Ratchinskaia and Manuel Legris talk about the abuse allegations at Vienna State Opera’s Ballet Academy

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[Interview] Talking with soprano Eleonora Buratto about Hoffmann, perfume and spumante

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Interview: Who is Jacopo Tissi? The Bolshoi’s enigmatic Italian star talks about Moscow, Milan and London, “It certainly wasn’t easy”

Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov in cover art for the Romanza album

Interview with Anna Netrebko on her son, his autism and his abandonment by his father Erwin Schrott

Carmen Giannattasio In The War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, Photo By Cory Weaver

Interview: Carmen Giannattasio on her first Tosca, Lady Gaga, and homicide

Sergei Polunin in Paradiso, photo by Silvia Lelli

Sergei Polunin: 700 years of inferno, purgatory and paradise

Grand Pas Classique at English National Ballet, photo by Laurent Liotardo

Introducing 19-year-old Canadian dancer Shale Wagman: from Lausanne to ENB to the Mariinsky

17th WBF Programme B - 12 Le Parc - Ferri & Bolle, photo Kiyonori Hasegawa

Interview: Roberto Bolle on turning 50 – I want to bring all those years to the stage

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Graham Spicer, aka 'Gramilano', is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Carla Fracci.

Since 2022, Gramilano has been pleased to welcome guest authors: Paul Arrowsmith, Donatella Bertozzi, Georgina Butler, Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel, Jonathan Gray, Marina Harss, Ann Haskins, Lily Hyde, Marta Mele, Matthew Paluch, Jann Parry, Lucía Piquero, Graham Watts, Deborah Weiss, and Lydia Wharf.

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