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Baryshnikov and Bob Wilson take on Nijinsky in Milan: Letter to a Man
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Bob Wilson have been in Milan rehearsing their new project: Letter to a Man, inspired by the diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky,…
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Interview: León and Lightfoot at The Royal Ballet – life, age, and change… a very beautiful message
Graham Spicer talked with choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot – León and Lightfoot – after the opening night of their new double bill…
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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”
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…
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Julian MacKay – the teenage American ballet dancer making waves in Russia
Julian MacKay at 16 was winning medals at the Sochi and Istanbul competitions when he represented his school, the Bolshoi Academy. At 17 he…
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Hallberg and Zakharova: a sublime couple in Nureyev’s Swan Lake in Milan
David Hallberg‘s reception at La Scala was rapturous. He is making his house début in Milan as well as tackling Rudolf Nureyev‘s tricky choreography for Swan…
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Backstage at the Nutcracker with the English National Ballet
My first ballet experience was going to see the Nutcracker with my family. We caught the train from Surrey up to Waterloo, and walked…
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Tsiskaridze: Real ballet dancers are trained in Paris, Moscow or St Petersburg
Forget the Royal Ballet School or the The School of American Ballet, Nikolai Tsiskaridze says there are only three real ballet schools in the…
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Bella Ratchinskaia and Manuel Legris talk about the abuse allegations at Vienna State Opera’s Ballet Academy
Accusations of abuse at Vienna State Opera‘s Ballet Academy quickly travelled the world, from The Guardian to the New York Times which began its…
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[Interview] Meet Nikisha Fogo, San Francisco Ballet’s new Principal Dancer
Swedish ballerina Nikisha Fogo will soon take up a new position in a new company when she becomes a principal dancer at San Francisco…