Mariafrancesca Garritano, a soloist with the La Scala Ballet Company, wrote a book in 2010 exposing the eating-disorders which afflict one in five dancers, she claimed. “La verità, vi prego, sulla danza!” (The Truth, Please, About Ballet) made international waves, and when The Observer newspaper picked up the story just before the glamorous opening of La Scala's season on 7 … [Read more...] about La Scala’s eating-disorder dancer loses her case and her job
Cruelty at the Bolshoi: acid attacks and smear campaigns. Tsiskaridze responds.
Sergei Filin had been receiving intimidating phone calls for a while, and had had his tyres punctured and his email hacked, but the acid attack that has shocked the dance world is beyond all reasoning. While police are not ruling out a personal vendetta, it is almost certainly an attack by someone who wants him removed from his position as head of the prestigious Bolshoi … [Read more...] about Cruelty at the Bolshoi: acid attacks and smear campaigns. Tsiskaridze responds.
Forget Damien Hirst… graffiti artist to receive $200 million from Facebook’s stock market launch
David Choe, who has created a number of murals for Facebook headquarters, might destroy the image of the street artist as "impoverished souls eking out an existence for the love of their craft", says the Los Angeles Times. The L.A. street and graffiti artist could stand to earn upward of $200 million from Facebook's initial public offering. Choe was asked to create murals … [Read more...] about Forget Damien Hirst… graffiti artist to receive $200 million from Facebook’s stock market launch
La Scala ballerina, who denounced eating disorders in the company, is fired
"One ballerina in five at La Scala suffers from an eating disorder", denounced Mariafrancesca Garritano (known on social networks and as an author also as Mary Garret) to The Observer newspaper. Multiple Facebook declarations, the contents of her book La verità, vi prego sulla danza! (The Truth, please, about Ballet), television appearances and interviews have made the 33 … [Read more...] about La Scala ballerina, who denounced eating disorders in the company, is fired
A ballerina speaks out: Mariafrancesca Garritano, La Scala soloist, talks frankly about the eating-disorders which plague the company
Sant'Ambrogio (Saint Ambrose) is Milan's patron saint, and on his Saint's Day, 7th December, Milan's opera house La Scala opens its new season. However, one of the ballet soloists has chosen the eve of this glittering occasion to speak with The Observer about problems in the company. Mariafrancesca Garritano is 33, and has been at the theatre's ballet school since she was … [Read more...] about A ballerina speaks out: Mariafrancesca Garritano, La Scala soloist, talks frankly about the eating-disorders which plague the company