Roberto De Simone, Italian stage director, playwright, composer and ethnomusicologist, died today in his hometown Naples at the age of 91.
The ceremony for the first edition of the Oscar della Danza has been held at Cinecittà World in Rome. In Italy, there are the David di Donatello awards for cinema, the Italian Musical Awards, the Franco Abbiati awards for opera, Premio Le Maschere for theatre, and many for literature, but the various dance awards —…
The dance competition MAB (Maria Antonietta Berlusconi), now in its eighth year, has become an important date on the ballet calendar both in Italy and beyond. It is also a ‘get-together’ and ‘catching-up-time’ for the Milanese dance world. Created after the premature death of Silvio Berlusconi‘s sister — who ran Milan’s Principessa Dancing School —…
First of all, this article is about getting more people to sign a petition to raise awareness among Italy’s political class about the damage they are doing in allowing so many ballet companies to close. If you’d like to sign – whether you live in Italy, visit Italy, or care about culture – you can…
Carmen, Medea and Cassandra… just imagine all three around your dinner table… a diplomatic nightmare. For Italian choreographer Luciano Cannito they have provided him with inspiration for a new pièce: part dance, part poetry. Called ‘Il processo’ – The Trial – it gives these three women a chance to tell their side of their story, stories which are…
Tourists on Rome’s Spanish Steps were taken by surprise yesterday afternoon when a company of dancers descended on them dressed as characters from Federico Fellini‘s Amarcord. Italian ballet dancer and all-round entertainer Rossella Brescia, with the entire company of dancers from Danzitalia in their 1930s garb, along with choreographer Luciano Cannito and designer Roberta Guidi…
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