Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel sees Wayne McGregor: Alchemies with The Royal Ballet – This exhilarating triple bill is the very essence of alchemies of curiosity: absorbing, engaging, daring.
Studio Wayne McGregor announces its 2024-25 programme with an exhibition at Somerset House, a choreographic installation and global premieres, tours and revivals.
His Majesty The King has appointed Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet Wayne McGregor CBE a Knighthood in this year’s Birthday Honours List.
Opening in September is Carlos Acosta and Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new project, Black Sabbath – The Ballet.
The National Ballet of Canada has announced that Principal Dancer Evan McKie will leave the company to pursue new dancing opportunities.
A large audience attended the Prix de Lausanne Finals today, both at the Théâtre de Beaulieu and online. 8 young dancers were awarded a scholarship allowing them to enter one of the 72 partner schools or companies of the Prix de Lausanne. Non-awarded candidates can take part in the Networking Forum tomorrow and have the opportunity…
Q&A When did you start dancing? My soccer coach told me I was a ballet dancer on the field. So according to him around 6; but with actual dancing, amateur-wise, at the age of 8. Why did you start dancing? Because I enjoyed it. Music moved me a lot as a child and I was…
Q&A When did you start dancing? When I was 6. Why did you start dancing? At first was for fun. Which dancer inspired you most as a child? Alessandra Ferri, Carla Fracci and Pina Baush. Which dancer do you most admire? I admire all dancers for their hard work and passion. What’s your favourite role?…
Q&A When did you start dancing? At 9 years old. Why did you start dancing? I saw Carla Fracci dancing. Which dancer inspired you most as a child? Carla Fracci and Erik Bruhn for their great partnership. Which dancer do you most admire? Sylvie Guillem for the light that emanates when she dances; Massimo Murru…
Bolshoi dancers Yan Godovsky, Maksim Surov and Artem Ovcharenko: Svetlana Lunkina and Vyacheslav Lopatin: Photos © AFP/File, Dmitry Kostyukov For other excellent images visit Marc Haegeman‘s site
At the end of his first year with the San Francisco Ballet, Italian ballet dancer Vito Mazzeo has been promoted to the role of principal dancer. Mazzeo is a product of the school of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. After dancing several seasons with London’s Royal Ballet, he returned to Italy where Carla Fracci…
Allan Ulrich leads the cheers for Wheeldon’s ballet in the San Francisco Chronicle: Nineteen minutes have rarely passed so quickly. In comparison with Wheeldon’s more meditative, more luxuriously phrased “Ghosts” (on the alternate Ballet program), “Number Nine” discloses no subtext, flies through stage space at high velocity and, in its phrasing, often gives the impression…
Wayne McGregor‘s ‘Chroma‘, created for The Royal Ballet in 2006, has crossed the Atlantic thanks to San Francisco Ballet. In London the work was an instant triumph. Debra Craine for The Times wrote: McGregor’s Chroma is ravishing on all fronts, choreography, music and design. The latter is what hits you first, an enormous light box brilliantly…
Therefore it was appropriate for Italian pianist Gregorio Nardi to give a Liszt recital in Milan as part of the bicentenary celebrations of the composer’s birth. Liszt’s original invention of a concert presented by a single artist originated in a “recital” he gave in the foyer of La Scala, so Nardi presented his programme not in the main auditorium of Milan’s…
Unfortunately no swans actually crashed on stage, which might have livened things up a little – only expectations came crashing down. Daniel Barenboim brought little magic to the pit and, moreover, watched the orchestra more than the stage – it gave the four (excellent) cygnets quite a turn when he accelerated during the danse des petits…
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