Review: The Nutcracker with Rome Opera Ballet showing choreographer Paul Chalmer’s “wisdom, passion and finesse”
Donatella Bertozzi sees The Nutcracker in Rome and finds in Paul Chalmer “a strong narrator and an expert dance maker”.
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Youth Grand Prix Europe (YGPE) finds a new Italian base in Vicenza, Italy
The semi-finals of the Youth Grand Prix Europe (European leg of the YAGP) will be held from 12 to 15 November 2024 at the Teatro Comunale, Vicenza.
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Review: Astana Ballet Theatre and Mosaic del Arte’s Blind Forgiveness in Athens
Astana Ballet Theatre in Blind Forgiveness in Athens – Julian Mackay and Natalia Fernandes Menes “a combination that was mesmerising in its absorbing and romantic impact”.
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Review and Photos: Les Étoiles gala at Ravenna Festival – international ballet stars in a rarefied programme
Italian producer Daniele Cipriani’s Les Étoiles gala for the Ravenna Festival featured a varied programme with a first-rate cast.
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London Dance 2023 – Matthew Paluch looks back on a year of dance in the capital
“Here’s another the-dance-world-according-to-one-person review of 2023 – because there aren’t enough of those, right?” – says Matthew Paluch
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[Review and Photos] Yellowstone International Arts Festival – the most unique gala I have experienced
Graham Watts attends the Yellowstone International Arts Festival in Montana in “the most spectacular setting imaginable” [plus a gallery of stunning images].
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[Photo Album] London’s Ballet Icons Gala 2023
Photos by three photographers of the rehearsals and performance of this year’s Ballet Icons Gala at the London Coliseum.
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[Review] Ballet Icons Gala – the starry evening returns to the London Coliseum
The Ballet Icons Gala format returned to London’s Coliseum on 19 February for one night only with the to-be-expected star-dancer billing.
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Prix de Lausanne 2023 – the full lineup
The Prix de Lausanne 2023 50th anniversary complete programme, and the lineup for the Gala of the Stars
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American dancers trapped in Russia after last plane is blocked on the runway
Dancing brothers Julian and Nicholas MacKay, who many will know through this blog (which starting following them and their two sisters in 2013), are trapped in Russia after the government set further restrictions on movement in the wake of the coronavirus emergency, meaning that all international flights are now suspended.
Julian, 22, is a First Soloist at the Mikhailovsky Theatre and Nicholas, 19…
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Julian MacKay – the teenage American ballet dancer making waves in Russia
Julian MacKay at 16 was winning medals at the Sochi and Istanbul competitions when he represented his school, the Bolshoi Academy. At 17 he won the Prix de Lausanne and his Harlequin Floors Scholarship let him spend a year with The Royal Ballet. At 18 he was snapped up as soloist with the Mikhailovsky Ballet…
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The Art of Movement – a glorious new book from NYC Dance Project
NYC Dance Project – husband and wife team, Ken Browar and Deborah Ory – have produced some of the most widely circulated images of dance on the internet. Leaps and other gymnastic feats will always be shared and liked more than most, but what makes Browar and Ory’s photos stand out is that they communicate…
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18-year-old Julian MacKay becomes a soloist with the Mikhailovsky Ballet
After being introduced to Julian Mackay, and his whole dancing family, three years ago by his sister Maria Sascha Khan – now First Soloist with the Ekaterinburg State Ballet – I have been following the activities of the four siblings with interest. Nadia Khan was recently with the Compañía Nacional de Danza de España but now with the Rome…
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Julian Mackay on entering and winning the Prix de Lausanne 2015
Seventeen-year-old Julian Mackay is one of the six winners of this year’s Prix de Lausanne. He is part of the extraordinary Khan-MacKay family which boasts four ballet dancers; something this blog has covered before. Julian however is flying high during his last year at the Bolshoi Academy before his graduation in June, having already won…
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Young American at the Bolshoi: Julian MacKay wins Sochi and Istanbul medals
The (other) American at the Bolshoi, 16-year-old Julian MacKay, has been winning medals at the international ballet competitions at Sochi and Istanbul. Of course there are lots of ballet competitions and lots of medals, even if these particular competitions are important ones, but what is incredible is that he was representing the Bolshoi Academy at…
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Help Julian, a 16-year-old American dancer, represent the Bolshoi in Sochi
This blog has often championed a good cause: young composers getting their first project off the ground… established composers getting a new project off the ground! Here is a very worthy cause,and an investment in the future of ballet! The young, and very talented, Julian MacKay – who comes from an astonishingly talented family of dancers…
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You choose it out of Love! Dancing with the Khan-MacKay family
Dancing, like acting and singing, often runs in the family. There are countless dancers whose parents danced: Zenaida Yanowsky (Royal Ballet), Yury Yanowsky (Boston Ballet) and Nadia Yanowsky (Het Nationale Ballet) are the children of Russian ballet dancer Anatol Yanowsky and Spanish ballet dancer Carmen Robles. Ballet’s in their blood. What makes the Khan-MacKay family special is that…
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