Interview: Nina Ananiashvili talks about the State Ballet of Georgia’s return to London
Lily Hyde spoke with Nina Ananiashvili, director of the State Ballet of Georgia, about the company’s 12-performance run of Swan Lake in London.
Julio Bocca
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The Fonteyn 2025: The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition to be held in Brazil this October
The Fonteyn 2025 – RAD’s The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition, is coming to São Paulo, Brazil for the first time (11-19 October 2025).
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Remembering Carla Fracci, three years after her death
Carla Fracci, the great Italian ballerina, died three years ago today, on 27 May 2021. I wrote her obituary for Dancing Times magazine that is reproduced here.
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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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[Photo album] Carla Fracci’s Giselle in Rome with Susanna Salvi and Michele Satriano
Rome Opera Ballet’s Giselle is dedicated to Carla Fracci. The opening cast saw Susanna Salvi as Giselle and Michele Satriano as Albrecht.
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[Review] Carla Fracci’s Giselle in Rome – Natalia Osipova kneeling at the altar of emotional honesty
Natalia Osipova and Jacopo Tissi guest with Rome Opera Ballet in Carla Fracci’s version of Giselle. (Plus a gallery of photos)
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Julio Bocca and Alessandra Ferri – together again at La Scala
Julio Bocca and Alessandra Ferri’s successful partnership began in the 1980s and recently they have been working together once again.
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[Interview] Alessandra Ferri, part two: “When dance saved me”
Alessandra Ferri talks about growing up as a young dancer, Kenneth MacMillan, Mikhail Baryshnikov, her family, and about loving life.
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Rome Opera Ballet announces 2021-2022 season
Rome Opera Ballet has announced its 2021-2022 season which starts with a Nutcracker and finishes with the restaging of Carla Fracci’s 2004 production of Giselle.
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Alessandra Ferri and Massimo Murru give Manon masterclasses from La Scala
Before the gala from La Scala that includes a pas de deux from Manon, Ferri and Murru coach the roles of Manon and Des Grieux.
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António Casalinho – Introducing the 17-year-old Portuguese Dancer
António Casalinho (winner of this year’s Prix de Lausanne, as well as Varna and YAGP) talks about becoming a dancer, his teachers and his parents (+ photo album)
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American Ballet Theatre: Together Tonight – an 80th Anniversary YouTube celebration
May 2020 was to have been a special month for the American Ballet Theatre – the time to celebrate its 80th anniversary.
American Ballet Theatre – known as Ballet Theatre from 1939 until 1957 – was founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant and its first performance was on 11 January 1940.
Chase was its director, together with Oliver Smith, from 1945 to 1980. Mikhail Baryshnikov took over until 1989. Smith returned with Jane Hermann from 1990 to 1992, when Kevin McKenzie took over as artistic director, a position her still holds.
ABT will present American Ballet Theatre: Together Tonight, a virtual celebration in support of the ABT Crisis Relief Fund on its YouTube Channel…
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Prix de Lausanne 2019 – Jury members and artistic team
The jury panel of the 47th Prix de Lausanne will be presided by Carlos Acosta who won the Prix de Lausanne in 1990.
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Roberto Bolle says addio to American Ballet Theatre
Eight performances of Kenneth MacMillan‘s Manon are scheduled to begin 17 June 2019 during American Ballet Theatre‘s 2019 Spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House, with Hee Seo in the title role, Roberto Bolle as Des Grieux, Stella Abrera as Lescaut’s Mistress and James Whiteside as Lescaut. Bolle will give his farewell performance with ABT…
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Daniel McCormick is announced winner of English National Ballet’s 2018 Emerging Dancer Award
Daniel McCormick was announced as winner of English National Ballet’s 2018 Emerging Dancer Award last night. Having performed a pas de deux from Le Corsaire, with partner Francesca Velicu, and Leatherwing Bat, a solo by Trey McIntyre, Artistic Director of English National Ballet, Tamara Rojo, announced his win on stage at the London Coliseum, which was livestreamed to audiences across the world….
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Interviews with Julio Bocca, Igor Yebra, Francesco Ventriglia — changes at Uruguay’s Ballet Nacional Sodre
After more than seven years as director of Ballet Nacional Sodre (BNS), Uruguay’s ballet company, Julio Bocca has decided to leave and move on. During his time in Montevideo he has raised the company’s national and international profiles, increased its repertoire and number of performances, and generally turned the company around. When I asked, four…
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Benois de la Danse winners 2017 – Pite, Pagliero, Riccetto, Haydée, Rodkin, Marchand
Last night, on the Bolshoi’s Historical Stage, the recipients of the Benois de la Danse prizes for 2017 were announced. Crystal Pite won the prize for Best Choreographer for The Seasons’ Canon, commissioned by the Paris Opera Ballet. Of the six nominated ballerinas, Ludmila Pagliero was awarded for her performance in Jerome Robbins‘ Other Dances…
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Julio Bocca talks about his emotional 50th Birthday Gala in New York this Friday
Youth America Grand Prix celebrates Julio Bocca on his 50th Birthday, as part of its Legends in Dance series, this Friday, 14 April. An exciting programme sees Luciana Paris and Marcelo Gomes in My Way from Twyla Tharp‘s Sinatra Suite, and Maria Noel Riccetto (who now dances with Bocca’s Ballet Nacional SODRE in Uruguay) who…
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Marcia Haydée, Julio Bocca and Maria Riccetto talk about Uruguay’s new Carmen
My Carmen is not only a beautiful and sensual woman; she is like a wild animal! A woman who thinks only of herself and loves only herself. Marcia Haydée is talking about her ballet Carmen, created for Chile’s Ballet de Santiago in 2004. It is now making the giant leap over Argentina to arrive on…
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18-year-old Vincenzo di Primo on winning at Lausanne and studying at the Vienna Ballet Academy
18-year-old Vincenzo di Primo was one of the seven winners at the annual Prix de Lausanne, taking away the Albert Amon Foundation scholarship which will give him the opportunity to train for a year at one of the 66 schools and dance companies that support the Lausanne competition. Lausanne was an unforgettable experience which gave…
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Julio Bocca steps down temporarily as director of the National Ballet of Uruguay
Julio Bocca has announced his decision to take “a temporary break as artistic director” of the National Ballet of Uruguay, a post he has held since 2010. Bocca said, This is not a goodbye but a ‘see you later’! though the period of absence hasn’t been defined. The motive given in his letter was for ‘personal reasons’. The Argentine…
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Dance injuries from the ballet dancer’s point of view: top stars share their experiences
To get an insider’s view of dance-related injuries, some leading dancers talked to Gramilano about their experiences – how they coped both physically and mentally – and gave advice to help keep a dancer injury-free. Principal dancers from the world’s top companies took time out to share some unpleasant memories in the hope that their…
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Herman Cornejo answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing?I was 8 years old. It was a normal day when my sister’s teacher, Wasil Tupin, saw me at the door. I was enjoying the music and watching my sister dance to the rhythm, and he invited me to come to class the next day. Why did you start dancing?Music took…
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Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya dies at 89
Maya Plisetskaya died of a heart attack today in Munich. She was 89. The director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Vladimir Urin, said, She died of a severe heart attack. The doctors tried everything, but there was nothing they could do. Mikhail Shvydkoi, former Russian Minister of Culture, said, I always thought that Plisetskaya would live forever….
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Ludmila Pagliero answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? When I was 9 years old. Why did you start dancing? Because I was always moving as a child and I had to do something with my body. I asked my mom and she took me to dance classes. Which dancer inspired you most as a child? Natalia Makarova,…
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Julio Bocca involved in serious car accident
Yesterday afternoon in Uruguay, Julio Bocca‘s car was completely destroyed when it careered off the highway but, remarkably, he has only suffered minor injuries. Bocca, director of the National Ballet Sodre, lost control of his Peugeot and it came off the road and flipped over. He was taken to the British Hospital of Montevideo. He was taken to hospital…
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Julio Bocca and his plans for the National Ballet of Uruguay
Julio Bocca has been at the helm of the Uruguay’s Ballet Nacional for almost four years. The company – officially known as the Ballet Nacional SODRE (BNS), as it comes under the umbrella organisation of Uruguay’s national broadcaster, SODRE – was formed in 1935, though it has had some hard times through the years. A fire…
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Maria Riccetto answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? When I was 6. Why did you start dancing? My mother thought it would be great for me, and my parents needed to find something for me to do after school. Which dancer inspired you most as a child? I remember watching Cynthia Harvey and Misha’s Don Q a…
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Julio Bocca answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? When I was 4 my mother started to teach me dance; my grandfather, as all good Italians, was a lover of art, opera and ballet, so in my family there was always an artistic atmosphere. At 8 I told my mother I wanted to start studying ballet, and so…
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Igor Yebra answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? When I was 13 years old. Why did you start dancing? Because I liked it and in my house it was something normal to see ballet; although first I wanted to be a football or basketball player! Which dancer inspired you most as a child? Fred Astaire, Antonio Gades and Vladimir…
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