Q&A When did you start dancing? I started dancing right around the age of nine. Why did you start dancing? My sister, Lia, was a student at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. Our family had moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, so that she could study there. I had always enjoyed sports — soccer and karate especially […]
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World Ballet Day 2015 with one day of live streaming from 5 companies
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 companies will once again stream 23 hours of live, behind-the-scenes footage on Thursday, 1 October. The Australian Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, The Royal Ballet, The […]
En Avant’s next ballet projects include a special encounter with Marcelo Gomes
The En Avant Foundation will present specialised coaching master classes for advanced pre-professional and professional dancers in San Francisco and in New York in April 2015. The Foundation’s inaugural event last June in New York was a resounding success and En Avant’s Artistic Director Cynthia Harvey and her team are continuing to aim high. Isabelle […]
James Whiteside answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? I started dancing when I was 9 years old. Why did you start dancing? I started dancing because I was driving my mom crazy. She wanted to get me out of the house and into an after-school activity. I had an appalling amount of energy and I absolutely hated […]
Glamorous casting at La Scala as Natalia Osipova steps in at last minute
After the success La Scala’s ballet company during their dates in Tokyo – 10,000 people saw the 5 performances of Romeo and Juliet – they now return to Milan with four performances of Swan Lake from 14 to 18 October. This is a continuation of the performances in July, dedicated to Rudolf Nureyev in the […]
Ballet globalisation continues as La Scala dancers abandon ship
The boat may not be sinking, but this season finds four members of the ballet company at Milan’s La Scala moving elsewhere, and two, following in the footsteps of Kobborg and Cojocaru, made it a last minute announcement. Soloist Francesca Podini has left for Jean-Christophe Maillot’s company in Monte Carlo. She is a dancer with a unique […]
Maina Gielgud answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? I took my first ballet classes when I was about 6 years old. It was in Brussels, and with a Russian teacher married to a Belgian. Her name was Mme de Zeum. After my first class she asked my mother to get me some pointe shoes for the next […]
Boston Ballet’s 50th Anniversary season kicks off in London
Boston Ballet has announced its 50th anniversary season, which will start with their tour to London in July at the London Coliseum. Programming for 2013/2014 includes La Bayadère and Cinderella, two cutting-edge repertory programmes with American and world premières and Balanchine’s masterpiece, Jewels. The season will close with a tour to Washington’s Kennedy Center, and end with […]
Keenan Kampa of Boston Ballet to join Mariinsky
One of Boston Ballet’s dancers Keenan Kampa will join Mariinsky Ballet over the next few months, US media say. An official announcement to this effect will be made at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, which has become a venue for current performances by Mariinsky’s lead dancers. Keenan Kampa, 22, […]
José Manuel Carreño and the Feijoo sisters on Dancing with the Stars
As part of Classical Week on America’s Dancing With The Stars, the season’s first “Macy’s Stars of Dance” performance featured three of the most famous ballet dancers in America today, though all three are Cuban. They danced a specially choreographed segment from “Swan Lake.” Lorena and Lorna Feijoo, principles for the San Francisco Ballet and […]
