Graham Spicer talked with choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot – León and Lightfoot – after the opening night of their new double bill for The Royal Ballet.
Matt Paluch sees four contemporary works performed by Phoenix Dance Theatre, with Pett Clausen Knight’s Small Talk showing substance over style.
Graham Spicer sees Alexandra Bachzetsis’ Exposure with the Cullberg Ballet – Stickers were placed over the camera lenses of every smartphone.
Graham Watts talks to Hope Muir, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, on the eve of the company’s London performances.
Next year Roberto Bolle turns 50: “The milestone of 50 eventually becomes a point of pride, the pride of saying how old I am, and to bring those years to the stage.”
A round-up of some of the critics’ views of the charismatic Tamara Rojo’s last programme as ENB director: Ek/Forsythe/Quagebeur
The Royal Ballet unveils its Beauty Mixed Programme: ‘Respect the past, herald the future but concentrate on the present.’
Beauty Mixed Programme features work across the generations from The Sleeping Beauty by de Valois to a world premiere by a company choreographer.
The Paris Opéra has announced its 2021-2022 season with 23 operas, 12 ballets of which 14 are new productions: 9 operas and 5 ballets. This adds up to 385 curtain-ups during the season.
Diana Vishneva’s latest project – Imprint in Motion – is a cross-media project fusing the fine arts, contemporary dance, music, and film making, and focuses on the human body in a variety of forms.
Patrick Dupond has died after a “devastating illness” – he was 61. His collaborator Leïla Da Rocha said, “Patrick Dupond flew away this morning to dance with the stars.”
Another Carmen? Well, yes, but there is a slightly different slant to this new production for the Rome Opera Ballet because Jiří Bubeníček has used Prosper Mérimée’s novella as his starting point, not Bizet’s opera. The ballet does, however, use Bizet’s music for the main part, which instantly removes originality from the score. Apart from…
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…
Q&A When did you start dancing? When I was about 7, in a very small ballet school in France where we were only 4 boys! Why did you start dancing? Maybe because my uncle was a DJ and I wanted to learn how to dance to go to the club Which dancer inspired you most…
La Scala’s ballet company is in California, warming up for tomorrow’s opening night of Giselle at the Segerstrom Center. The company’s resident principal dancers will only be seen at the Saturday matinee, though for the three evening performances Roberto Bolle will play Albrecht and, although he is a guest artist at Milan’s opera house, he…
Nicolas Le Riche will direct the Royal Swedish Ballet beginning autumn 2017. He has signed a five-year contract with the Royal Swedish Opera and will arrive in Stockholm mid-August. Birgitta Svendén, CEO of the Royal Swedish Opera, said, I am very proud to present Nicolas Le Riche as the new ballet director for the Royal…
After 23 years with The Royal Ballet, last night Zenaida Yanowsky gave her final curtain call on the Covent Garden stage. Her final performance at the Royal Opera House was in Marguerite and Armand where she danced alongside Roberto Bolle. Her last performance with the Company, however, will be in Australia in July, performing Paulina in The…
Gramilano has already written about Cincia Puricelli’s dancing school Proscaenium, which is based in Gallarate, a town near Milan’s Malpensa airport. An ordinary town, and on the surface an ordinary dancing school, yet it is bravely run with ambitious goals. Last year Puricelli’s conceit was to invite Carla Fracci (for her first public masterclass) together…
Q&A When did you start dancing? I began dancing when I was in the womb, taught informally by my mother through the blood memory of her ancestors. My mom is Ivorian – from Côte d’Ivoire – and when we were little kids she would push aside the coffee table in the living room to teach…
The Teatro Carcano in Milan is trying to forge ahead with a project to feature dance, especially contemporary dance, on its stage. Dance in Milan tends to be dominated by La Scala, while other northern Italian towns such as Venice, Genoa and Turin have got to see the Eifman Ballet, Ballet Preljocaj, Béjart Ballet Lausanne,…
Mats Ek presents his last ever piece of choreography tonight until 10 January in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on the first stop of his farewell tour. He is 70. The programme presents three pieces under the title, From Black to Blue. She Was Black is from 1994, and will be performed by dancers…
A tribute by Ioannides Yiannakis In 29 December 1984, after a memorable performance of Swan Lake at the Paris Opera, the great Rudolf Nureyev named an extraordinary 19-year-old étoile. Her name was Sylvie Guillem. Nureyev’s instincts were as usually right. He may have been difficult at times, but he was also generous and had a true…
The Czech National Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world. It was founded in 1883 to provide dances for the opera and it also put on the classics of the time introducing creations for the Ballets Russes as it entered the 1920s. However, from the ‘30s on it slowly started leaning…
Q&A in italiano When did you start dancing? In a gym near our house when I was seven-years-old. Why did you start dancing? It was something my mother wanted me to do, and she took me to the local gym in the provinces where the teacher immediately saw my talent and advised her to take…
Sylvie Guillem is an extraordinary creature: exuding a special aura yet blessed with the common touch. She has almost always been this way, the ordinary (little or no makeup, bare legs in ballet) mixed with the extraordinary (her technique, her corporeal expressiveness); the anti-diva who can be diva-ish. It is a fascinating and winning combination,…
For two nights from tomorrow in Rome there is the possibility to attend a most unusual dance gala. While there are only four taking part, their ages combined total 266 years. The dancers are Mats Ek, Ana Laguna, Susanne Linke and Dominique Mercy, Laguna being the youngest of the quartet at just sixty. Playing on…
The annual Benois de la danse prize-giving ceremony, one of the dance world’s most prestigious awards, was held at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow at the end of May. The prix is awarded not only to dancers and choreographers but also to composers and designers, reflecting Diaghilev’s noble concept that ballet is a fusion of all…
Q&A When did you start dancing? I started at the age of 10 in my hometown Dax, near Bordeaux in southwest France. I was hyperactive so my mother had me do as many activities as I possibly could (tennis, swimming, violin, theatre, gymnastics, horse riding, skiing…) I started ballet because I had a bad back…
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,…
Q&A in italiano When did you start dancing? I started when I was tiny. Why did you start dancing? It started as a game: my mother had a dancing school and I was always asking if I could go with her. Which dancer inspired you most as a child? Polina Semionova. Which dancer do you…
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