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Prix de Lausanne 2023 – the full lineup

19 January 2023 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Prix de Lausanne 2020-01

The Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 will be given to Carlos Acosta CBE, a Prix de Lausanne Prize Winner in 1990 and current Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. The Prix de Lausanne 2023 50th … [Read more...] about Prix de Lausanne 2023 – the full lineup

Misty Copeland Foundation announces its new directors

30 November 2022 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Misty Copeland visiting the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club in New York City, July 2022. Courtesy of the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club.

Caryn Campbell has been appointed Executive Director of The Misty Copeland Foundation (MCF) and Sindy Folgar has been named Director of the MCF BE BOLD programme. The appointments, which will be … [Read more...] about Misty Copeland Foundation announces its new directors

Choreographer and dancer Ismael Ivo has died at 66 from Covid

9 April 2021 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Ismael Ivo in Venice

The choreographer and dancer Ismael Ivo has died at 66 from Covid. He was an important artistic director and organizer in the world of dance spending eight years as director of the Biennale Danza … [Read more...] about Choreographer and dancer Ismael Ivo has died at 66 from Covid

[Review] Beethoven’s ballet The Creatures of Prometheus with striking Capucci costumes

11 August 2020 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Roberto Lori in The Creatures of Prometheus The Creatures of Capucci, photo by Graham Spicer

Italian producer Daniele Cipriani seems to be resuscitating dance in Italy almost singlehandedly. The first main dance event in the country was conceived by him and presented in mid-July to open the … [Read more...] about [Review] Beethoven’s ballet The Creatures of Prometheus with striking Capucci costumes

Photo Album: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in London

16 September 2019 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

03 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Jessica Lang’s EN, photo by Dasa Wharton

The company has three As in its title but, to my mind, this programme sets the case for it to have four, because the profundity of the African American cause is so central to this fine pair of works … [Read more...] about Photo Album: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in London

Béjart’s Boléro returns to La Scala with Roberto Bolle and others debuting on the red table

28 February 2018 by Gramilano 1 Comment

Bolero   Roberto Bolle © Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala, 2018 01

Maurice Béjart’s Boléro returns to La Scala in March, with Roberto Bolle dancing the La Mélodie for the first time. The 15-minute work was last seen in the theatre in 2003 when Sylvie Guillem danced … [Read more...] about Béjart’s Boléro returns to La Scala with Roberto Bolle and others debuting on the red table

New York dancers come together for the 7th Annual Dance Against Cancer plus special all-male event

4 May 2017 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Dance Against Cancer 2016

The American Cancer Society – Our Mission is to Save Lives, Celebrate Lives and Lead the Fight for a World Without Cancer! – is staging its 7th Annual Dance Against Cancer. Erin Fogarty Bittner, … [Read more...] about New York dancers come together for the 7th Annual Dance Against Cancer plus special all-male event

Abdiel Cedric Jacobsen answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… dancers’ edition

8 November 2016 by Gramilano 1 Comment

Abdiel Cedric Jacobsen   photo by Brigid Pierce

Q&A When did you start dancing? I began dancing when I was in the womb, taught informally by my mother through the blood memory of her ancestors. My mom is Ivorian - from Côte d'Ivoire - and … [Read more...] about Abdiel Cedric Jacobsen answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… dancers’ edition

The Art of Movement – a glorious new book from NYC Dance Project

19 October 2016 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Gregory Dean, Principal, Royal Danish Ballet

NYC Dance Project – husband and wife team, Ken Browar and Deborah Ory – have produced some of the most widely circulated images of dance on the internet. Leaps and other gymnastic feats will always be … [Read more...] about The Art of Movement – a glorious new book from NYC Dance Project

Susana B Williams and her Choreographers’ Showcase return to Edinburgh

29 July 2016 by Gramilano 2 Comments

Susana B Williams has been bringing her Choreographers’ Showcases to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for 15 years. Her company, Dance-Forms, will have managed 72 such events by the time the doors open … [Read more...] about Susana B Williams and her Choreographers’ Showcase return to Edinburgh

Royal Ballet Autumn Season 2016 – 2017 – full dates and casts

10 June 2016 by Gramilano 1 Comment

The Royal Ballet has released the casting for their Autumn Season, from September 2016 until January 2017. Roberta Marquez will return as Guest Artist to dance two farewell performances in one of her … [Read more...] about Royal Ballet Autumn Season 2016 – 2017 – full dates and casts

Spoleto Festival USA reveals 2012 season: Glass, k.d. lang and Dublin’s Gate Theatre

3 January 2012 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

The American première of the Philip Glass opera "Kepler," a concert by vocalist k.d. lang, and the return of Dublin's Gate Theatre highlight the 36th season of the Spoleto Festival USA this spring, … [Read more...] about Spoleto Festival USA reveals 2012 season: Glass, k.d. lang and Dublin’s Gate Theatre

New York’s ‘Fall for Dance’ announce the lineup for 2011

24 August 2011 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Steven McRae will be donning his tap-shoes for the latest edition of Fall For Dance at New York City Center, which will run from October 27 to November 6. Twenty companies and choreographers are … [Read more...] about New York’s ‘Fall for Dance’ announce the lineup for 2011

Ailey – Bennett – Donn – Joffrey – Nureyev – Gillis … … …

1 December 2010 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Some of the dance world's losses, but the list is much, much longer: Alvin Ailey Michael Bennett Jorge Donn Robert Joffrey Rudolf Nureyev Christopher Gillis ... … [Read more...] about Ailey – Bennett – Donn – Joffrey – Nureyev – Gillis … … …

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New York City Ballet 2023 Spring Season is announced

Principal Brandon Lawrence to leave Birmingham Royal Ballet to join Ballett Zürich

Two new opera recordings to be released by Warner Classics/Erato

Four new Principal dancers for New York City Ballet

LaScalaTv, La Scala’s new streaming platform, is now live

Royal Ballet principal dancer Laura Morera to retire

Pam Tanowitz’s Secret Things, her second world premiere for The Royal Ballet this season

Prix de Lausanne 2023 – the full lineup

Principal dancer Jared Angle to give final performance with NYCB

The Australian Ballet will tour to the Royal Opera House in August 2023

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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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