Interview with The Royal Ballet's Merle Park in 1979: Green Park, Hyde Park or Merle Park?
Merle Park in The Firebird, photo by Roy Round Merle Park, the engine driver's daughter from Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe), ended up being…
Tamara Karsavina compares Rudolf Nureyev and Vaslav Nijinsky
Tamara Karsavina and Vaslav Nijinsky in Le Spectre de la rose Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West in 1961 and later…
Bolshoi Ballet's Italian dancer, Jacopo Tissi, on his first year in Moscow and dancing Diamonds at the Lincoln Center
Jacopo Tissi in Le spectre de la rose, photo by Alexander Yakovlev Last August, young ballet dancer Jacopo Tissi, resigned from…
Balanchine's Dream sprinkles its magic fairy dust over La Scala for the last time
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…
Interview with Alicia Alonso at 95: my dancing is my most eloquent testament
Alicia Alonso 1955 I was fascinated by dance when I was very young, and after my first lesson I said to…
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 Legends in Dance series, this Friday, 14 April. An exciting…
Picasso in Rome, with Diaghilev, Cocteau and Massine: The Ballets Russes and Parade
Illustration by Gianluigi Toccafondo for the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma One hundred years ago, Pablo Picasso lived Rome for two months….
Meeting Davide Dato, the Italian ballet star who's finally hitting the headlines in his homeland
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…
Introducing Michele Esposito… winner of the Prix de Lausanne 2017
Michele Esposito has won the Prix de Lausanne 2017. The first prize, sponsored by the Swiss investment firm Adveq, was not his only award as…
Tamara Rojo on Pina Bausch whose “work transcends description… speaking to your spirit”
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in Le Sacre du Printemps, photo by Ulli Weiss © Pina Bausch Foundation English National Ballet's exciting Bausch…
