Review: Ballet Central mixed bill – Central School of Ballet’s graduate company
Graham Watts sees Ballet Central perform four works: Solitaire, BOLERO 18, REPLICA, and Times Square Ballet.
Maurice Béjart
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Review: Stephanie Lake’s COLOSSUS arrives in London – young dancers fulfilled Lake’s vision with ebullience
Graham Watts sees COLOSSUS – Stephanie Lake creates fascinating, kaleidoscopic movement from a mass of bodies made the more powerful by the rarity of the quantum.
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La Scala’s 2026-2027 Ballet Season announced
La Scala announces its 2026-2027 Ballet Season with nine works, including five premieres and four new productions.
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Review: lots of young talent at La Scala Ballet School’s final show
Graham Spicer sees Accademia Teatro alla Scala Ballet School dancers in their final show of the year, showcasing the talents of the final year students.
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Review: Les Étoiles in Milan – staging galas is not for the faint-hearted
Graham Spicer sees the Milanese edition of Daniele Cipriani’s Les Étoiles gala and enjoyed its varied offerings, with Natalia Osipova and Aurélie Dupont stepping in at the last minute.
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Review: Béjart Ballet with new works by Riva&Repele and Andonis Foniadakis – big, bold visions
Lydia Wharf sees Béjart Ballet Lausanne dance works by Riva&Repele, Andonis Foniadakis and Maurice Béjart and finds “a company looking forward with confidence”.
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Review: La Scala triple bill – a five-star performance from Gioacchino Starace in Béjart’s Boléro
Graham Spicer sees Harald Lander’s Études, Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort, and Gioacchino Starace in Maurice Béjart’s Boléro at La Scala.
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Review: Gala Mario Porcile at the Nervi Festival – international stars in a refined programme
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.
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Tonight – closing gala of the Nervi International Ballet Festival 2025, near Genoa
This evening, the Nervi International Ballet Festival 2025 closes with a gala dedicated to its founder – the Mario Porcile Gala – with international stars.
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Les Étoiles Pour Homme, an all-male gala, concludes the Ravenna Festival
Les Étoiles Pour Homme – With a title that sounds like a men’s perfume producer Daniele Cipriani throws down a gauntlet to George Balanchine.
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Interview with dancer Jacopo Bellussi, the new Artistic Director of the prestigious Nervi Festival
Interview with Hamburg Ballet’s principal dancer Jacopo Bellussi, the new Artistic Director of Nervi International Ballet Festival.
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Next Generation Festival – The Royal Ballet celebrates youth dance talent
The Royal Ballet’s Next Generation Festival in the Linbury Theatre features an impressive lineup of young dance talent.
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Interview: Roberto Bolle turns 50
Today is Roberto Bolle’s 50th birthday and for the occasion we have published online my interview with him for Dancing Times magazine.
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Laurent Hilaire announces the Bayerisches Staatsballett’s 2025-2026 season
Laurent Hilaire has presented the Bayerisches Staatsballett’s 2025-2026 season, which sees three new mixed bills, world premieres, and house debuts.
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Review: 17th World Ballet Festival in Tokyo, Programme B
Matthew Paluch sees the Programme B gala at the 17th World Ballet Festival in Tokyo with 33 of the world’s top dancers.
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Remembering Carla Fracci, three years after her death
Carla Fracci, the great Italian ballerina, died three years ago today, on 27 May 2021. I wrote her obituary for Dancing Times magazine that is reproduced here.
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[Review] La Scala’s Gala Fracci shows a company in spectacular form
Gala Fracci at La Scala has reached its third edition – an annual gala dedicated to the great Italian ballerina Carla Fracci who died in 2021.
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Les Étoiles gala in Rome – the ‘Gala of Inclusivity’ with international stars of dance
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.
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Happy 80th Birthday to Luciana Savignano (with video tribute)
Today, Luciana Savignano celebrates her 80th birthday. We celebrate the dancer who was a muse for Maurice Béjart, among others, with a video tribute.
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Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Black Sabbath – The Ballet
Opening in September is Carlos Acosta and Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new project, Black Sabbath – The Ballet.
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The second edition of the Carla Fracci gala arrives at La Scala
After the resounding success of the Gala Carla Fracci now, two years after her death, comes the second edition of what will be an annual gala in her honour.
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[Review] Les Étoiles – international ballet stars woo and wow in Italy
Quality casting and clever programming make the Les Étoiles gala a rewarding evening of world-class dance.
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22 finalists for the Prix de Lausanne competition streaming live today
22 dancers have been chosen to participate in the Prix de Lausanne final which will be streamed live today.
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[Review] Luciana Savignano in Tango di Luna: “She came to me in sections”
Luciana Savignano in a tango-inspired piece with arms that still ripple like heat haze over desert sands as she approaches her 80th year.
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dance | interviews | top dance
[Interview] Alessandra Ferri, part one: “The voice of the soul is immense”
Alessandra Ferri talks about dancing in her fifties, her interrupted retirement, dealing with pain, and advice from Carla Fracci.
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Fracci Gala: La Scala celebrates Carla Fracci
A three-hour gala celebrating the career of Carla Fracci, who died last year, was a triumph at La Scala and presented the company at its best.
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La Scala honours Carla Fracci with the first annual gala
On 9 April 2022 La Scala will present “Gala Fracci – First Edition” with company principals and guests Ferri, Nuñez, Smirnova, Zakharova and Bolle.
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L’Heure exquise: Happy days for Alessandra Ferri
Alessandra Ferri makes Maurice Béjart’s “L’Heure exquise” her own as she celebrates her 40-year long career.
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obituaries | dance | news
Choreographer Micha van Hoecke has died at 77
Choreographer and director Micha van Hoecke has died after a long illness, at 77. He was a leading figure in Italian and European dance from the early 1960s.
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The Royal Opera House 2021-2022 ballet and dance season
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
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