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Caravaggio from Pas de deux for Toes and Fingers, photo by Marcello Orselli, Teatro Carlo Felice - 355

Interview with Svetlana Zakharova: I was afraid of gaining weight

Interview with Svetlana Zakharova on touring, lockdown, her family, and her love of Italy.
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More than toes and fingers: Zakharova and her boys in Italy

An entertaining programme from Svetlana Zakharova and violinist Vadim Repin – Pas de deux for Toes and Fingers – brought a sold-out festival crowd to…
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Davide Dato in The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky's Love © Graham Spicer

A captivating dance tribute to Stravinsky at Italy's Nervi Festival

A captivating programme of dance dedicated to Igor Stravinsky on the 50th anniversary of his death launched the dance season at this year's Nervi Music…
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BIRDS WALKING ON WATER - Mick Zeni and company, photo by Brescia e Amisano ©Teatro alla Scala (7)

La Scala's enthralling Contemporary Evening is a triumph

Contemporary Evening was very good indeed, with seven works: a contemporary ‘classic', some lesser-known pieces, and a new creation.
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Davide Dato stars in the Italian premiere of Uwe Scholz's The Rite of Spring

Uwe Scholz's Rite of Spring will be danced by Davide Dato, principal at Vienna State Ballet, and staged by the work's original dancer Giovanni di…
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Jacopo Bellussi and Alessandro Frola in Peter and Igor, Nijinsky Gala, Hamburg 2021 38 © Kiran West

A new John Neumeier work brings two Italian dancers back home

Jacopo Bellussi and Alessandro Frola perform Neumeier's Peter and Igor in Stravinsky's Love, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Stravinsky's death.
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[Interview] Baryshnikov on the Venice Biennale, death and laying himself bare

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.
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António Casalinho – Introducing the 17-year-old Portuguese Dancer

António Casalinho (winner of this year's Prix de Lausanne, as well as Varna and YAGP) talks about becoming a dancer, his teachers and his parents…
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Yasmine Naghdi in rehearsal for Tarantella, The Royal Ballet © 2017 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper

[Interview] The Royal Ballet's Yasmine Naghdi: a time to reflect

I've interviewed The Royal Ballet's principal ballerina Yasmine Naghdi several times over the past five years. The first time, she was a soloist and preparing…
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In conversation with Marianela Nuñez

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…
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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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