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Karen Kain to Retire as Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada

25 October 2019 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Karen Kain. Photo by Karolina Kuras

Karen Kain will retire as Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada in January 2021 and will be named Artistic Director Emeritus. She has been the company’s Artistic Director since 2005. Toronto Life once said, Under the reign of Karen Kain, The National Ballet of Canada has flowered into one of the most thrilling companies in the world. Kain is the longest-serving … [Read more...] about Karen Kain to Retire as Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada

Greta Hodgkinson receives a special gift from The National Ballet of Canada on her retirement

19 September 2019 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Greta Hodgkinson., photo by Karolina Kuras

Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, has announced that Greta Hodgkinson will retire as Principal Dancer in 2020 after a career that spans 30 years. She will dance the title role in Giselle and appear in Petite Mort in November as well as The Nutcracker in December. Her final performance as Principal Dancer will be the role of Marguerite in Frederick … [Read more...] about Greta Hodgkinson receives a special gift from The National Ballet of Canada on her retirement

Karen Kain’s 50th Anniversary at National Ballet of Canada

12 February 2019 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Hannah Fischer in Swan Lake. Photo by Karolina Kuras.

2019/20 Season: Karen Kain’s 50th Anniversary New Swan Lake by Karen Kain Three World Premieres and Three Company Premieres Tour to Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. New Choreographic Associate Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, has announced that she will direct and stage a new Swan Lake for the 2019/20 season in celebration of her 50th … [Read more...] about Karen Kain’s 50th Anniversary at National Ballet of Canada

The National Ballet of Canada’s first performance in Russia to be livestreamed

12 October 2018 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Guillaume Côté and Greta Hodgkinson in Emergence. Photo by Karolina Kuras.Guillaume Côté and Greta Hodgkinson in Emergence. Photo by Karolina Kuras.

The National Ballet of Canada's first performance in Moscow will be livestreamed across Russia on Yandex. The free livestream will take place on 15 October 2018 from The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre in Moscow where the National Ballet will perform a mixed programme as part of Diana Vishneva’s Context festival. The free livestream is part … [Read more...] about The National Ballet of Canada’s first performance in Russia to be livestreamed

Meet Francesco Gabriele Frola — National Ballet of Canada and English National Ballet’s new Principal Dancer

14 August 2018 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Francesco Gabriele Frola. Photo By Karolina Kuras, 2016 01

Italian ballet dancer Francesco Gabriele Frola has been promoted to Principal Dancer of the National Ballet of Canada and at the same time becomes a Principal at English National Ballet. Dance is in his DNA. His parents, both former dancers, run a dancing school, Professione Danza, in Parma, the city where Gabriele spent the first 16 years of his life. He is the eldest of four … [Read more...] about Meet Francesco Gabriele Frola — National Ballet of Canada and English National Ballet’s new Principal Dancer

English National Ballet announces promotions and new joiners for the 2018/2019 season

19 June 2018 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Tamara Rojo, Jeffrey Cirio and Jospeph Caley in Song of the Earth © Laurent Liotardo (4)

Tamara Rojo has announced promotions within English National Ballet and new joiners for the 2018/2019 season. Joiners and promotions Joining the Company will be Jeffrey Cirio who joins English National Ballet as Lead Principal following his recent guest performances in Song of the Earth, La Sylphide, Romeo & Juliet, Nutcracker and Akram Khan’s Giselle. Cirio is … [Read more...] about English National Ballet announces promotions and new joiners for the 2018/2019 season

Skylar Campbell and Francesco Gabriele Frola Promoted to Principal Dancer at The National Ballet of Canada

18 June 2018 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Skylar Campbell and Francesco Gabriele Frola, photos by Karolina Kuras

Six Promotions in 2018/19 Season Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, yesterday announced six promotions for the 2018/19 season: Skylar Campbell and Francesco Gabriele Frola to Principal Dancer, Jack Bertinshaw to First Soloist, Christopher Gerty, Spencer Hack and Miyoko Koyasu to Second Soloist. Quick Facts Born: Laguna Beach, … [Read more...] about Skylar Campbell and Francesco Gabriele Frola Promoted to Principal Dancer at The National Ballet of Canada

Robert Lepage and Guillaume Côté’s new dance work Frame by Frame to come to Sadler’s Wells

1 June 2018 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Dylan Tedaldi in a Frame by Frame workshop. Photo by Elias Djemil Matassov

Robert Lepage and Guillaume Côté's new dance work Frame by Frame opens tonight, 1 June, at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto. Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, announced that Sadler’s Wells in London will co-produce Frame by Frame, a collaboration between theatre artist Lepage and Choreographic Associate and Principal … [Read more...] about Robert Lepage and Guillaume Côté’s new dance work Frame by Frame to come to Sadler’s Wells

Interview with choreographer Robert Binet on his Dreamers project for the Canadian and Royal ballet companies

3 October 2017 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Robert Binet, photo by Helen Maybanks

Robert Binet’s The Dreamers Ever Leave You, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, comes to London in mid-October. Dancers from The National Ballet of Canada and The Royal Ballet will join forces for this ‘immersive work’ at The Printworks, which is, appropriately, in the Canada Water area of London. The work was first performed at the Art … [Read more...] about Interview with choreographer Robert Binet on his Dreamers project for the Canadian and Royal ballet companies

National Ballet of Canada brings its stars to Paris in Neumeier’s Nijinsky

23 August 2017 by gramilano 1 Comment

Guillaume Côté in Nijinsky, photo by Cylla von Tiedemann

The National Ballet of Canada brings John Neumeier's ballet Nijinsky to Paris in October. The performances mark the National Ballet’s return to Paris for first the time in 45 years. Nijinsky will run from 3–8 October at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. The company's Artistic Director, Karen Kain, announced the principal casting earlier today. Principal Dancer Guillaume … [Read more...] about National Ballet of Canada brings its stars to Paris in Neumeier’s Nijinsky

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Graham Spicer

Writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano’) about dance, opera, music and photography for people who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like.

I was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. My scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times. I write the ‘Danza in Italia’ column for Dancing Times magazine.

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News

  • Colleagues support Vittorio Grigolo as he replies to being fired by the Royal Opera House and the Met
  • La Scala stages an evening of ballet to raise funds to aid the flooded Teatro Fenice in Venice
  • Karen Kain to Retire as Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada
  • Dancing Times, November 2019 edition – with Gramilano’s Danza in Italia column including Sleeping Beauty at La Scala and Pink Floyd in Verona
  • Rome Opera Ballet names its main dance studio after the late Elisabetta Terabust
  • Alberto Testa – Italian dancer, choreographer, teacher and writer – has died at 96
  • Tenor Marcello Giordani has died at 56
  • David Hallberg becomes Principal Guest Artist of The Royal Ballet in the 2019/2020 Season
  • Vittorio Grigolo comments on recent accusations after a triumphant performance at La Scala
  • La Scala remembers Jessye Norman in words and pictures

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