Graham Spicer sees Gala Mario Porcile at the Nervi Festival, with dancers from The Royal Ballet, Hamburg, Dutch and Bavarian State Ballet companies, and ABT.
This evening, the Nervi International Ballet Festival 2025 closes with a gala dedicated to its founder – the Mario Porcile Gala – with international stars.
Interview with Hamburg Ballet’s principal dancer Jacopo Bellussi, the new Artistic Director of Nervi International Ballet Festival.
The Nervi International Ballet Festival 2025 opens on Saturday 28 June 2025 in Genoa with top companies offering starry casts.
The annual Les Étoiles gala series in Rome kicks off tonight for four performances (15-17 March) at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome.
Carlos Acosta, Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, has announced the promotions within the company and new joiners for the 2023/24 season.
Alessandra Ferri makes Maurice Béjart’s “L’Heure exquise” her own as she celebrates her 40-year long career.
The Royal Ballet presents 3 world premieres: Wayne McGregor’s The Dante Project, Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate and a new work by Kyle Abraham
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)
In 1959, Rudolf Nureyev, with Ninel Kourgapkina as Kitri, danced Basilio for the first time at the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad. He was 20. After he defected to the West in 1961, the role became his calling card around the world, the character suiting his comic talents and mischievous nature. He restaged the ballet, based…
The indefatigable Maina Gielgud is a freelance stager, guest teacher and coach. In 1983, two years after leaving her successful and varied career as a dancer, she became Artistic Director of the Australian Ballet, where she stayed for a remarkable fourteen years. It was the beginning of a long second career in company administration and…
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….
Q&A When did you start dancing? I started dancing when I was 9 years old. Why did you start dancing? I started dancing because I was driving my mom crazy. She wanted to get me out of the house and into an after-school activity. I had an appalling amount of energy and I absolutely hated…
Prince Siegfried sleeps on his throne and in his dream he sees the evil Rothbart carrying off a white swan into the sky. This is how Rudolf Nureyev‘s version of Swan Lake begins, and ends. The ballet seen as a Freudian nightmare, the young prince who finds escape in his head instead of taking up the…
In a brave casting move, Makhar Vaziev, director of La Scala’s ballet company, has given new-boy Claudio Coviello the opening night of Swan Lake with Natalia Osipova. 21-year-old Claudio Coviello, who stepped in at the last minute to replace Ivan Vasiliev in March, and was named primo ballerino (principal) just two months ago, will be dancing three performances with the Russian…
Q&A When did you start dancing? I took my first ballet classes when I was about 6 years old. It was in Brussels, and with a Russian teacher married to a Belgian. Her name was Mme de Zeum. After my first class she asked my mother to get me some pointe shoes for the next…
Well you can’t blame them for trying. “Black & White: featuring the Black Swan pas de deux” was the cringe-making publicity for the English National Ballet‘s mixed programme. It didn’t however draw the critics’ attention away from the real gem of the evening: Suite en Blanc is a little-seen ballet by Serge Lifar, the last star…
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