Mikhail Baryshnikov, one year after the death of his friend and collaborator, the director Robert Wilson, is working on completing their last project.
American Ballet Theatre’s two seasons at the David H. Koch Theater in 2026-2027 were announced by Artistic Director Susan Jaffe.
26 June to 12 July 2026, the 69th Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto: the first edition led by the new Artistic Director Daniele Cipriani.
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.
Darcey Bussell, President of the Royal Academy of Dance, and Ivan Putrov present a ballet gala to support ballet students in Ukraine, on Saturday 21 March.
Las Estrellas – on 3 and 4 January in Rome – sees Sergio Bernal dance the rarely seen version of Ravel’s Boléro with choreography by Rafael Aguilar,
Having just started as director of the Vienna State Ballet, ballerina Alessandra Ferri talks about where she is now.
Graham Spicer sees The Royal Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet at the Nervi Festival, with the London company pulling aces out of its sleeve.
Les Étoiles Pour Homme – With a title that sounds like a men’s perfume producer Daniele Cipriani throws down a gauntlet to George Balanchine.
In the autumn of 2025 Christopher Marney, Artistic Director of London City Ballet, will become Artist in Residence at Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York.
The Italian Minister of Culture has nominated dance impresario Daniele Cipriani to direct the Spoleto Festival from 2026.
Today is Roberto Bolle’s 50th birthday and for the occasion we have published online my interview with him for Dancing Times magazine.
Today American Ballet Theatre’s Artistic Director Susan Jaffe, announced casting for the company’s 2024 Fall Season at the David H. Koch Theater.
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.”
Jonathan Gray sees The Royal Ballet in Ashton Celebrated – Les Rendezvous, The Dream, and Rhapsody – an evening of musicality and daring.
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.
The Royal Ballet celebrates Founding Choreographer Frederick Ashton with two special programmes and welcomes Sarasota Ballet.
Queen Camilla was Vice-Patron of the Royal Academy of Dance since 2020, with Queen Elizabeth II as Patron from 1953 until her death in 2022.
Alvin Ailey company: “…tremendously committed to everything it performs, dancing with an inspirational sense of dignity, joy and accomplishment.”
First photos of tonight’s Frederick Ashton triple bill with The Royal Ballet: Scènes de ballet, A Month in the Country, and Rhapsody.
Alessandra Ferri talks about growing up as a young dancer, Kenneth MacMillan, Mikhail Baryshnikov, her family, and about loving life.
Mikhail Baryshnikov will open this year’s Biennale di Venezia in the world premiere of Not Once, an ‘art installation with film’ by Jan Fabre.
Wayne McGregor on why “as we are propelled into 2021, after a year of enforced physical restrictions, we are reminded of the criticality of touch”.
Between July and September the Venice Biennale becomes an international stage for the performing arts and for 2021 Wayne McGregor takes up the reins of the dance section until 2023.
The first live dance event in Italy took place at the Nervi International Festival of Ballet and Music, opening the two-week festival in Nervi’s coastal park with a backdrop to the stage of palm trees and sea.
The idea for the evening of dance, called Duets and Solos, came from Daniele Cipriani, the Italian dance impresario, who, while watching couples sitting close together while eating in restaurants as Rome reopened after the lockdown, thought that the same would be possible for dancers – households can remain together. Silvia Azzoni and Alexander Ryabko from Hamburg Ballet, and Iana Salenko and Marian Walter from Berlin, are offstage couples and were therefore allowed to dance together. Salenko and Walter had their two children with them so, in theory, a pas de quatre would have been permitted. They were joined by Hugo Marchand from the Paris Opéra Ballet, Matteo Miccini from Stuttgart, and the Spanish dancer Sergio Bernal.
Music was provided by the brilliant 26-year-old Italian pianist
There have been many film montages of dancers, musicians and others from the performing arts, celebrating their art in lockdown, reconnecting with their audience and colleagues via solo performances edited together to form a piece. Many have been upbeat, some funny, but a new video adds a mood that feels truthful after three months of lockdown.
Where We Are is a beautifully produced dance piece coming in at just under three minutes. Anguish dominates, and even if the English National Ballet’s Jeffrey Cirio says, “I’m so hopeful,” he only looks it for a split second. The final utterance of “I’m so…” by The Royal Ballet’s Francesca Hayward leaves the cast of five without words as they wander away from the camera, downcast and perplexed.
After theatres were forced to close their doors three months ago, in Italy there is some tentative nudging to open them creating a chink of hope.
As with the Arena in Verona, Pesaro and other summer Festivals that are putting on concerts or semi-staged presentations, Daniele Cipriani’s dance gala for the Ravenna Festival is a sign that art and artists are still with us.
Dame Darcey Bussell talks about loves and dislikes from Astaire to Jane Fonda, from Chorus Line to Romeo & Juliet, from dyslexia to diamond earrings.
May 2020 was to have been a special month for the American Ballet Theatre – the time to celebrate its 80th anniversary.
American Ballet Theatre – known as Ballet Theatre from 1939 until 1957 – was founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant and its first performance was on 11 January 1940.
Chase was its director, together with Oliver Smith, from 1945 to 1980. Mikhail Baryshnikov took over until 1989. Smith returned with Jane Hermann from 1990 to 1992, when Kevin McKenzie took over as artistic director, a position her still holds.
ABT will present American Ballet Theatre: Together Tonight, a virtual celebration in support of the ABT Crisis Relief Fund on its YouTube Channel…
Q&A in italiano When did you start dancing? I started dancing when I was four. Why did you start dancing? My uncle was a dancer and ran a ballet school, so I’m sure that I began dancing because I was curious about his world. Also, I had slight scoliosis and was told I should try…
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