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 to be chosen by Directors of the partner … [Read more...] about Prix de Lausanne Prize Winners 2018 and photos
Chroma
Marijn Rademaker answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
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 always dancing around in our living room at home. One day my mom asked me if I would like to go to … [Read more...] about Marijn Rademaker answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Mara Galeazzi answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
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? Kenneth MacMillan's Anastasia. What role have … [Read more...] about Mara Galeazzi answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Vito Mazzeo answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
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 for the very personal and natural way to portray … [Read more...] about Vito Mazzeo answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
In pictures: the Bolshoi dance Chroma
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 … [Read more...] about In pictures: the Bolshoi dance Chroma
Italian dancer Vito Mazzeo is promoted to principal with the San Francisco Ballet
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 snapped him up in 2008 when she was the director of the Rome … [Read more...] about Italian dancer Vito Mazzeo is promoted to principal with the San Francisco Ballet
Christopher Wheeldon’s new creation “Number Nine” scores a 10 in San Francisco
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 of … [Read more...] about Christopher Wheeldon’s new creation “Number Nine” scores a 10 in San Francisco
McGregor’s ‘Chroma’ arrives in San Francisco: “a series of astonishing lifts, upturning bodies like saltshakers”
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 designed by John Pawson. Stark … [Read more...] about McGregor’s ‘Chroma’ arrives in San Francisco: “a series of astonishing lifts, upturning bodies like saltshakers”
Franz Liszt (or rather Liszt Ferenc as we must learn to call him) invented the “recital” in Milan at La Scala
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 Teatro Dal … [Read more...] about Franz Liszt (or rather Liszt Ferenc as we must learn to call him) invented the “recital” in Milan at La Scala
Swan Lake crash-lands at La Scala
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 cygnes, and almost no-one managed to … [Read more...] about Swan Lake crash-lands at La Scala