Graham Watts sees Tungrodd, a “softly expressive and powerfully expansive” semi-autobiographical work by Sámi choreographer Simone Grøtte from Northern Norway.
Lily Hyde sees BRB’s Don Quixote and is impressed by the lead dancers, the orchestrations, and the design, though disappointed by the corps de ballet.
Graham Watts sees La Bayadère in Oslo where two stellar dancers shared the stage with an excellent company.
Marta Mele sees the bright colours and the tragedy of unattainable love in La Bayadère at Rome Opera House with Iana Salenko and Bakhtiyar Adamzhan.
Donatella Bertozzi sees La Bayadère in Rome and has a ‘magical, priceless evening’ with Paris Opera Ballet’s Sae Eu Park and Paul Marque.
Dance writer Graham Watts looks back at a year of dance and chooses 12 performances from the 157 he saw during 2025.
La Scala Ballet Soloist Federico Fresi returned to dance on the opening night of the ballet season after a two‑year battle with a rare tumour.
Dutch National Ballet’s new production of La Bayadère “recalibrates the historical context” to correct the ballet’s inherent cultural appropriation.
The Maiden of Venice, Carlos Acosta’s reimagining of La Bayadère, will receive its world premiere at Birmingham Hippodrome in September 2026.
Graham Spicer sees the Les Étoiles galas in Milan with ballet stars in thrilling pas de deux and seductive modern repertoire.
Amici della Scala has published an annual collection of books on La Scala’s designers for more than 20 years. The new collection features Luciano Damiani and others.
After injuries during La Bayadère at La Scala, the company has had to invite last-minute guests to complete the casting in Manon.
Kimin Kim debuts as Solor in La Bayadère at La Scala, with étoile Nicoletta Manni, to thunderous applause.
Matthew Paluch watches English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer Award 2024 and reveals this year’s winners.
Rudolf Nureyev’s production of La Bayadère returns to La Scala for 10 performances from 26 May to 21 June, with Kimin Kim making a guest appearance.
The new season of the Rome Opera Ballet is announced by the company’s director, Eleonora Abbagnato.
Aurélie Dupont, director of the Paris Opera Ballet, will leave her position on 31 July to “devote herself to personal projects” it was announced today.
Laurent Hilaire takes over from Igor Zelensky as Director of the Bayerisches Staatsballett. Hilaire presented the new ballet season at today’s press conference.
From the 2022-2023 season, Jacopo Tissi will be a guest principal dancer with the La Scala Ballet after having left the Bolshoi Ballet Company.
Finally, with continually mutating casts, La Bayadère was back on stage at the end of January, replacing a planned triple bill of contemporary choreography.
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.
Jacopo Tissi returns to La Scala as newly crowned principal dancer of the Bolshoi Theatre to dance with Svetlana Zakharova.
La Scala postpones planned contemporary programme to recoup sold-out La Bayadère performances cancelled for COVID outbreaks.
La Bayadère opened at La Scala a week later than planned after a Covid outbreak forced cancellations and major casting changes.
After delays of the first night of the new production of La Bayadère at La Scala for Covid, the theatre has now been obliged to cancel all of the upcoming performances.
Photo Album: After Covid disrupted opening night, La Scala’s new production of Rudolf Nureyev’s La Bayadère finally opens at La Scala
An outbreak of Covid at La Scala has led to the premiere of the new production of La Bayadère on 15 December being cancelled.
Rudolf Nureyev’s La Bayadère has never been performed by any company other than the Paris Opera Ballet. It opens at La Scala with new designs on 15 December.
Makhar Vaziev, director of the Bolshoi Ballet company, talks about the most discussed problems in ballet today, and wanting a third theatre for the Bolshoi.
A leading Hindu says the Paris Opera Ballet should not be “callously promoting the appropriation of traditions and ridiculing entire communities”.
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