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Principal dancers leave the Mariinsky and Bolshoi companies

7 March 2022 by Gramilano 8 Comments

Tissi-Parish

Principal dancer Jacopo Tissi has decided to leave the Bolshoi ballet company and principal Xander Parish the Mariinsky because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They are both exceptional as there … [Read more...] about Principal dancers leave the Mariinsky and Bolshoi companies

Interview with Svetlana Zakharova: I was afraid of gaining weight

27 July 2021 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

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

Svetlana Zakharova has been in Italy performing Pas de deux for Toes and Fingers, an evening with her husband, the violinist Vadim Repin, and four male dancers. Their next stop is Japan. [Touring] … [Read more...] about Interview with Svetlana Zakharova: I was afraid of gaining weight

More than toes and fingers: Zakharova and her boys in Italy

24 July 2021 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Revelation from Pas de deux for Toes and Fingers, photo by Marcello Orselli, Teatro Carlo Felice - 358

Svetlana Zakharova and her chair (for Motoko Hirayama’s piece Revelation) arrived in Genoa for the annual Nervi Music Ballet Festival. And her husband came too – in fact, violinist Vadim Repin … [Read more...] about More than toes and fingers: Zakharova and her boys in Italy

The Sleeping Beauty with Marianela Nuñez and Vladislav Lantratov at the Rome Opera Ballet

30 September 2018 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Marianela Nuñez and Vladislav Lantratov in The Sleeping Beauty, Rome Opera Ballet © Yasuko Kageyama

Jean-Guillaume Bart, former Étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet, created his version of The Sleeping Beauty for the Yacobson Ballet Theatre in St Petersburg in 2016. His POB colleague Eleonora Abbagnato … [Read more...] about The Sleeping Beauty with Marianela Nuñez and Vladislav Lantratov at the Rome Opera Ballet

In conversation with Myriam Ould-Braham and István Simon

2 September 2018 by Gramilano 1 Comment

Myriam Ould-Braham and István Simon performing the white swan pdd in Barcelona, photo by Josep Guindo

  The annual, starry, late summer gala organised by American Ballet Theatre’s Xiomara Reyes and Ballets du Monte Carlo’s Elías García for IBStage takes place at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del … [Read more...] about In conversation with Myriam Ould-Braham and István Simon

World Ballet Day 2015 with one day of live streaming from 5 companies

8 September 2015 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

1 October 2015 is the date for this year's World Ballet Day live stream. Following last year’s unprecedented collaboration for the first World Ballet Day LIVE, five of the world’s leading ballet … [Read more...] about World Ballet Day 2015 with one day of live streaming from 5 companies

Ivan Vasiliev turns choreographer for “Ballet No 1”

18 May 2015 by Gramilano 1 Comment

Tonight, Ivan Vasiliev makes a début in a new ballet. It is a special début, a double début, as it marks his first outing as a choreographer and, appropriately, it is entitled Ballet N°1. When you go … [Read more...] about Ivan Vasiliev turns choreographer for “Ballet No 1”

The year ballet wept… jealousy & rivalry at the Bolshoi

3 December 2013 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

So 29-year-old Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko will go to prison for six years, and his career obviously ends here. His biography has been taken down from the company's website and soon his picture … [Read more...] about The year ballet wept… jealousy & rivalry at the Bolshoi

Meanwhile in Russia… Vaganova & Bolshoi latest

13 November 2013 by Gramilano 3 Comments

The Russian Ministry of Culture announced this morning that there would be an external inspection of the organisation of St Petersburg's Vaganova Ballet Academy. It will examine the economic and … [Read more...] about Meanwhile in Russia… Vaganova & Bolshoi latest

Bolshoi dancer beaten up by police

18 October 2013 by Gramilano 1 Comment

Pavel Dmitrichenko, the Bolshoi Soloist accused of organising the attack on the company's director, Sergei Filin, was beaten up by masked police as he was taken back to prison following a pre-trial … [Read more...] about Bolshoi dancer beaten up by police

Russian Culture Minister confirms that Tsiskaridze will return to the Bolshoi

7 October 2013 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

The Russian Minister of Culture has confirmed that Nikolay Tsiskaridze will perform for the last time on the Bolshoi's stage in performances of The Nutcracker, leading up to his fortieth birthday on … [Read more...] about Russian Culture Minister confirms that Tsiskaridze will return to the Bolshoi

Sergei Filin returns to the Bolshoi

14 August 2013 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Sergei Filin's surprise appearance at the end of the Bolshoi's performance of Jewels at the Royal Opera House in London was emotional for Bolshoi dancers and London audience alike. The Bolshoi's … [Read more...] about Sergei Filin returns to the Bolshoi

Jailed Bolshoi dancer’s girlfriend defends him on Russian tv: He’s a wonderful man

26 May 2013 by Gramilano 1 Comment

Anzhelina Vorontsova, girlfriend of jailed Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko, has gone on Russian television and spoken for the first time in public of the acid attack on Bolshoi director Sergei … [Read more...] about Jailed Bolshoi dancer’s girlfriend defends him on Russian tv: He’s a wonderful man

Interview with Tamara Rojo

21 May 2013 by Gramilano 2 Comments

Tamara Rojo is at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as one of the judges for this year's Benois de la danse, the ballet Oscars. Maria Sidelnikova from Kommersant took the opportunity to talk to … [Read more...] about Interview with Tamara Rojo

Mud will be slung tonight: Tsiskaridze and Volochkova expose prostitution at the Bolshoi

20 March 2013 by Gramilano 2 Comments

Ex-Bolshoi dancer Anastasia Volochkova and current Bolshoi star and stirrer Nikolai Tsiskaridze have been on Russian television to add even more mud to an already murky pond. The Bolshoi's general … [Read more...] about Mud will be slung tonight: Tsiskaridze and Volochkova expose prostitution at the Bolshoi

Bolshoi’s Sergei Filin: I would like to work again just as I did before. Without fear, without anxiety.

16 March 2013 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

After undergoing several operations on both eyes, Boshoi Ballet director Sergei Filin yesterday faced a press conference in Germany where he is receiving specialised treatment. I have plenty of … [Read more...] about Bolshoi’s Sergei Filin: I would like to work again just as I did before. Without fear, without anxiety.

Acid attacker’s partner was ex-girlfriend of Bolshoi director Sergei Filin?

8 March 2013 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko, who has admitted organising the attack on director Sergei Filin in January, has said that one of his principal motives was that his partner Anzhelina Vorontsova was … [Read more...] about Acid attacker’s partner was ex-girlfriend of Bolshoi director Sergei Filin?

New YouTube videos: a starry Bayadère with Zakharova, Allash, Tsiskaridze, Ivata, Krysanova, Osipova and Nikulina from 2008

12 October 2012 by Gramilano 9 Comments

This was an inspired performance of Nikiya from Svetlana Zakharova. There are many videos of her in what is arguably her best role, but this is certainly one her finest performances. A magical evening … [Read more...] about New YouTube videos: a starry Bayadère with Zakharova, Allash, Tsiskaridze, Ivata, Krysanova, Osipova and Nikulina from 2008

Vladimir Vasiliev is extraordinary in a 1960’s video of Goleizovsky’s ballet Leili & Madjnun

12 February 2012 by Gramilano 2 Comments

Vladimir Vasiliev in magnificent form in this extraordinary document of a fragment of a Kasyan Goleizovsky's ballet "Leili & Madjnun" which was choreographed for the Bolshoi in 1960. Kasyan … [Read more...] about Vladimir Vasiliev is extraordinary in a 1960’s video of Goleizovsky’s ballet Leili & Madjnun

Bored at the Bolshoi?

28 October 2011 by Gramilano 2 Comments

What an extraordinarily unresponsive crowd to greet the opening of the newly restored Bolshoi Theatre. Ten seconds of timid clapping and then the television director honed in on bored faces, while … [Read more...] about Bored at the Bolshoi?

Grand Gala at the Kremlin with stars from Hamburg, Stuttgart, Bolshoi, Mariinsky, Mikhailovsky and Béjart companies

31 August 2011 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Stars from the Hamburg Ballet are heading to Moscow for a Kremlin Gala show on September 17 and 18. Soloists will perform various pieces by John Neumeier, the artistic director of the Hamburg Ballet, … [Read more...] about Grand Gala at the Kremlin with stars from Hamburg, Stuttgart, Bolshoi, Mariinsky, Mikhailovsky and Béjart companies

Osipova and Vasiliev shine in the live relay of Don Quixote from Moscow

6 March 2011 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

23 countries shared the experience of this broadcast in high-definition from the Bolshoi with 460 cinemas around the globe participating. Imagine the pressure that the dancers of this Don Quixote were … [Read more...] about Osipova and Vasiliev shine in the live relay of Don Quixote from Moscow

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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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