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Dance photographer Elliott Franks dies at 62
The talented, well-respected, and much-loved photographer Elliott Franks has died at his London home at age 62.
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Review: Detention – Gary Clarke Company’s brave, politically themed work
Jonathan Gray sees Gary Clarke Company’s Detention reminding its audience that the freedoms we enjoy today shouldn’t be taken for granted.
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2024 National Dance Awards announced in London
The Winners of the 2024 National Dance Awards were announced at a ceremony at the Barbican Centre in London. It is the 25th anniversary of the Awards.
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Interview: Roberto Bolle turns 50
Today is Roberto Bolle’s 50th birthday and for the occasion we have published online my interview with him for Dancing Times magazine.
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Interview: Manuel Legris leaves La Scala’s ballet company in its best shape ever
Manuel Legris leaves his post as director of La Scala Ballet and we look back to the moment he took over in 2020.
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Interview: Jakub Józef Orliński – freedom of movement
An interview with countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński – not about his singing for an opera magazine, but about his dancing for Dancing Times.
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Queen Camilla becomes the new Patron of the Royal Academy of Dance
Queen Camilla was Vice-Patron of the Royal Academy of Dance since 2020, with Queen Elizabeth II as Patron from 1953 until her death in 2022.
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Jack Anderson – dance writer, historian, and poet – dies at 88
New York-based dance writer, historian, and poet Jack Anderson died on 20 October 2023, at the age of 88.
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Royal Academy of Dance acquires Dancing Times photographic archive
The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) has acquired Dancing Times magazine’s photographic archive of 38,000 prints from c1920 to 2000.
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[Interview] The Collected Mr McNicol – talking to choreographer Andrew McNicol
Choreographer Andrew McNicol talks about his McNicol Ballet Collective UK tour and his flourishing career.
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Winners of the UK 2023 National Dance Awards
The 2023 National Dance Awards winners were announced today decided by votes from members of the UK’s Critics’ Circle.
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The Dancing Times on when a dance critic is a critic no longer
A delightful extract from The Dancing Times from 1960 on an incident at the premiere of Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal Gardée.
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Dame Beryl Grey: an obituary by Mary Clarke
Mary Clarke, former editor of Dancing Times, wrote this obituary of Dame Beryl Grey before her death in 2015.
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The end of an era – the last issue of Dancing Times is published
The last ever issue of Dancing Times magazine has been published, the September 2022 edition, after 112 years of uninterrupted work.
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In the July edition of Dancing Times magazine…
In July’s Dancing Times magazine I talk about La Scala Ballet’s exciting new principal Alice Mariani, and Emanuela Montanari’s farewell performance.
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Promotions at La Scala Ballet announced with Alice Mariani as new Principal Dancer
Happily, as I predicted in the current issue of Dancing Times, Alice Mariani has been promoted to principal dancer at La Scala.
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Dancing Times’ June 2022 issue features La Scala’s Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko
In June’s Dancing Times, Gramilano talks to La Scala principal dancers Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko about life as an onstage and offstage couple.
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Dancing Times, May 2022 issue
In the May issue of Dancing Times, I write about the European premiere of Touché, a lockdown creation for ABT by Christopher Rudd, and Jewels at La Scala.
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Dancing Times, February 2022, out now
February’s edition of Dancing Times looks at two new productions (ENB’s Raymonda and La Scala’s La Bayadère) as well as other reviews, articles and interviews.
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Dancing Times October 2021 edition
October’s Dancing Times contains the last “Notes from New York” column from Jack Anderson as well as Gramilano’s “Danza in Italia” column on the Nervi Festival.
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Dancing Times magazine’s August 2021 edition with Danza in Italia and queer representation in ballet
Dancing Times magazine’s August edition includes the Danza in Italia column on La Scala’s online and live events and an article on queer representation in ballet
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UK’s National Dance Awards announced
This year’s National Dance Awards were announced yesterday at a streamed event from Cervantes Theatre in London.
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Nominees for the UK’s National Dance Awards 2021 are announced
The nominees for the 21st National Dance Awards have been announced by the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle.
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February’s Dancing Times shows Roberto Bolle uncovered
The latest issue of Dancing Times is now on sale. In it, I talk to Roberto Bolle – “Bolle Uncovered”. In a frank interview, (with photos by Andrej Uspenski), he talks about his insecurities, getting back into form after months at home, diet, and more.
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December’s Dancing Times features Manuel Legris, Eleonora Abbagnato, and other delights
The latest issue of Dancing Times is now on sale. My Danza in Italia column features Eleonora Abbagnato and a new socially distanced dance piece, and in a separate article I interview La Scala’s new director, Manuel Legris.
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Dancing Times, the world’s oldest dance magazine, celebrates 110 years
1910 saw George V ascend to the throne, the trial and execution of Dr Crippen, the publication of E M Forster’s Howard’s End and the birth of Alice Marks, later Alicia Markova, the country’s first prima ballerina. 1910 was also the year that Phillip J S Richardson founded Dancing Times – it was the first independent magazine devoted solely to dance
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Dancing Times, May Edition with the Danza in Italia column
Life is challenging, but Dancing Times soldiers on, as it has done for 110 years, more than any other dance publication. In all that time, even during world wars, it has never missed publishing an issue, and the coronavirus isn’t about to stop it in its tracks.
Gramilano’s Danza in Italia column was lucky in that it is bi-monthly, and as such still had some shows to review.
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Free reading from Dancing Times – the complete archive is available from 2000
Dancing Times has opened up the last 20 years of its archives to all until 7 April. The monthly magazine has its think pieces, reviews, articles about technique, dance’s past and present, but I always head first to the interviews. Here are some tidbits I’ve come across…
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Dancing Times features a countertenor on its cover: Jakub Józef Orliński talks about breakdancing
The cover for the November issue of Dancing Times features countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński. I interviewed him a couple of days before his Glyndebourne Festival debut singing the title role in Handel’s Rinaldo. He’s also a b-boy, a breakdancer, and breaking gives him mental as well as physical benefits. In his first major interview about…
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Dancing Times, November 2019 edition – with Gramilano’s Danza in Italia column including Sleeping Beauty at La Scala and Pink Floyd in Verona
The latest issue of Dancing Times magazine (out on Friday) contains a double-page spread dedicated to the Gramilano ‘Danza in Italia’ column reviews, with a look at Rudolph Nureyev’s Sleeping Beauty at La Scala, The Tokyo Ballet on tour in Italy, and Daniele Cipriani Company’s new production SHINE Pink Floyd Ballet at Verona’s Teatro Romano….
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