Roberto Bolle‘s programme Danza con me (Dance with Me) won the Rose D’Or for the Best European Entertainment programme at the 57th edition of the awards in Berlin in September. Not surprisingly, the Italian State Television (RAI) have decided to record another episode which will go out on New Year’s Day with actors, comedians, singers…
The Royal Ballet and English National Ballet present two of Kenneth MacMillan‘s most complex and important works, in the second programme of Kenneth MacMillan: a National Celebration. Two nights only – tonight, 24 October (Lauren Cuthbertson, Thiago Soares, Edward Watson, Reece Clarke and Artists of the two companies), and 1 November (Melissa Hamilton, Bennet Gartside, Matthew Ball, Calvin Richardson). British…
Tonight, and for the next two evenings, in almost two hundred cinemas across Italy, Roberto Bolle will be filling the screen. Roberto Bolle: L’arte della Danza (Roberto Bolle: the art of dance) is written and directed by Francesca Pedroni and follows Bolle backstage during three dates on a Roberto Bolle & Friends tour: the Arena…
Rick Guest is a photographer who’s highly polished style has led him to work with some of the biggest international brand names – Nike, Ferrari, BMV – yet he fell into photography by chance. I was between jobs and had a friend who was a model booker. She had some new guys starting out and…
As has already been reported, the on-off-on-off again tale of Natalia Osipova as Manon in Milan is now definitely “off” and she has been replaced by The Royal Ballet’s gorgeous Sarah Lamb. About her performance in the role, the Observer‘s respected and authoritative critic, Luke Jennings, wrote, Lamb, kittenish and porcelain-pale, draws us in with…
The Gala des Étoiles at La Scala made me feel as though I’d eaten all the icing on the cake: happy, but a little woozy. Don Q? Check! Corsaire? Check! Manon and Romeo and Juliet? Check! Spartacus? Check! As you can see if you scroll down to the programme, it wasn’t all hoary favourites, and…
Below is the full programme of Gala des Étoiles, at La Scala on 30 and 31 October. The Gala will be transmitted live by Italian television, Rai, on Rai5, and in cinemas internationally both live and over the next two months. It can also be followed live from the wings via La Scala’s site and its…
The Royal Ballet returns to the USA in June 2015 with programmes that reflect both the company’s heritage and its contemporary repertoire. It also brings with it the extraordinary lineup of dancers that make up the Royal Ballet today. Aside from the Brits – Lauren Cuthbertson, Rupert Pennefather and Edward Watson – there are the…
From 18 October until 12 November The Royal Ballet will present a glorious mixed programme of four of Frederick Ashton‘s finest ballets, celebrating not only his vast and impressive body of work but also the distinctive English balletic style he shaped. Frederick Ashton was the founding choreographer of The Royal Ballet and is now widely regarded…
The Royal Ballet‘s Gary Avis is one of the patrons of the charity The Hunger Project. Here’s what he has to say on their website: I was brought up to believe that we are all better off if we support one another. I’ve performed at many charity gigs over the years and it feels…
The Royal Ballet’s new triple bill brings two new pieces: Balanchine’s Ballo della Regina, and a new creation by Wayne McGregor called Live Fire Exercise. The critics were almost all in agreement here. Loving the showy Balanchine, some doubts about the McGregor choreography, and a general thumbs-up for the company. Ballo della regina Music – Giuseppe Verdi (dances from…
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