Interview: Hugo Marchand on bringing French flair to ballet in LA
Ann Haskins spoke with Paris Opera Ballet Étoile Hugo Marchand about bringing ballet to Los Angeles’ Disney Hall.
Carolyn Carlson
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Twyla Tharp awarded Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
The Lions of Biennale Danza 2025 go to Twyla Tharp (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement) and Carolina Bianchi (Silver Lion).
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Review: Still I Rise gala in Milan – Alessio Carbone gathers dancers from Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Madrid and Italian companies for a charity event
The Still I Rise Gala at Milan’s Teatro Carcano was organised by former Paris Opera Ballet dancer Alessio Carbone with proceeds going to the charity Still I Rise.
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Remembering Carla Fracci, three years after her death
Carla Fracci, the great Italian ballerina, died three years ago today, on 27 May 2021. I wrote her obituary for Dancing Times magazine that is reproduced here.
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Wayne McGregor presents Venice’s Biennale Danza 2024 – We Humans
Wayne McGregor, Director of the Dance Department of La Biennale di Venezia which runs from 18 July until 3 August 2024, presents “We Humans”
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The Carla Fracci film “Codice Carla” (The Carla Code) opens in cinemas
The prominent Italian cinema director Daniele Lucchetti has produced Codice Carla (The Carla Code), a documentary on Carla Fracci in cinemas from tomorrow.
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Dancing in the museum: Diana Vishneva’s cross-media project ‘Imprint in Motion’
Diana Vishneva’s latest project – Imprint in Motion – is a cross-media project fusing the fine arts, contemporary dance, music, and film making, and focuses on the human body in a variety of forms.
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DANZA&DANZA names the winners of its 2020 Awards
Italy’s DANZA&DANZA magazine has announced its prize winners for 2020 with artists and productions from Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Opéra de Paris and Finnish National Ballet.
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Interview with Alessandra Ferri: Maturing I find myself smiling more
“I’m enjoying a new chapter in my life having the fortune to play women of my age and not romantic roles like the Giselles, Carmens, Juliets, Manons… all wonderful, but enough, they’re part of another Alessandra. Now I’m a 55-year-old with the knowledge of how extraordinary that is.”
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To Carla Fracci, on your 80th Birthday, from your colleagues and friends
Today is the 80th birthday of the Italian ballerina, Carla Fracci. She was born in Milan on 20 August 1936. To celebrate we asked fellow ballerinas, as well as actresses and designers she has worked with, for messages and best wishes on a very special day. with thanks to Merrill Ashley – Aurora Benelli – Rebecca Bianchi…
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Diana Vishneva brings new Carlson and Maillot works to London
Diana Vishneva‘s dance programme On the Edge will get its UK début when it comes to the London Coliseum in April 2015. The evening consists of two works commissioned specifically for Vishneva: Jean-Christophe Maillot’s intriguing pas de trois Switch, and Carolyn Carlson‘s profound solo work Woman in a Room. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times,…
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