10 productions, 11 venues, 127 performances, including first time collaborations with Ballet Black and newly appointed Director Carlos Acosta. For the first time in the history of Birmingham Royal Ballet, the season has been created in partnership with leaders from across the world of dance, including Ballet Black and Birmingham Royal Ballet‘s newly appointed Director…
After more than seven years as director of Ballet Nacional Sodre (BNS), Uruguay’s ballet company, Julio Bocca has decided to leave and move on. During his time in Montevideo he has raised the company’s national and international profiles, increased its repertoire and number of performances, and generally turned the company around. When I asked, four…
Last night, on the Bolshoi’s Historical Stage, the recipients of the Benois de la Danse prizes for 2017 were announced. Crystal Pite won the prize for Best Choreographer for The Seasons’ Canon, commissioned by the Paris Opera Ballet. Of the six nominated ballerinas, Ludmila Pagliero was awarded for her performance in Jerome Robbins’ Other Dances…
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 programme sees Luciana Paris and Marcelo Gomes in My Way from Twyla Tharp‘s Sinatra Suite, and Maria Noel Riccetto (who now dances with Bocca’s Ballet Nacional SODRE in Uruguay) who…
My Carmen is not only a beautiful and sensual woman; she is like a wild animal! A woman who thinks only of herself and loves only herself. Marcia Haydée is talking about her ballet Carmen, created for Chile’s Ballet de Santiago in 2004. It is now making the giant leap over Argentina to arrive on…
Julio Bocca has been at the helm of the Uruguay’s Ballet Nacional for almost four years. The company – officially known as the Ballet Nacional SODRE (BNS), as it comes under the umbrella organisation of Uruguay’s national broadcaster, SODRE – was formed in 1935, though it has had some hard times through the years. A fire…
Q&A When did you start dancing? When I was 4 my mother started to teach me dance; my grandfather, as all good Italians, was a lover of art, opera and ballet, so in my family there was always an artistic atmosphere. At 8 I told my mother I wanted to start studying ballet, and so…
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