Interview: Ivan Putrov on the Dance for Ukraine gala at the Royal Academy of Dance
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.
Olga Smirnova
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Review: Rome Opera Ballet’s magical performance of La Bayadère
Donatella Bertozzi sees La Bayadère in Rome and has a ‘magical, priceless evening’ with Paris Opera Ballet’s Sae Eu Park and Paul Marque.
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Dutch National Ballet ‘corrects’ La Bayadère in a new version
Dutch National Ballet’s new production of La Bayadère “recalibrates the historical context” to correct the ballet’s inherent cultural appropriation.
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Interview: Elizaveta Kokoreva, the Bolshoi Ballet’s youngest star, comes to Rome
Elizaveta Kokoreva makes her debut in the West when she dances in the Les Étoiles galas in Rome on 4 and 5 January.
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Ballet Icons Gala 2025 arrives at the London Coliseum in March
On 9 March 2025, the Ballet Icons Gala will fulfil its annual promise of presenting dancers from across the world to the London public.
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Review: Les Étoiles gala in Milan – 21 dancers, 17 pieces, 3 hours of starry dance
Graham Spicer sees the Les Étoiles galas in Milan with ballet stars in thrilling pas de deux and seductive modern repertoire.
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Italy’s Les Étoiles galas arrive in Milan for the first time – from the moon to the stars
Italian producer Daniele Cipriani brings his Les Étoiles gala format to Milan for the first time, at the Arcimboldi Theatre.
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Review: 17th World Ballet Festival in Tokyo, Programme A
Matthew Paluch sees the Programme A gala at the 17th World Ballet Festival in Tokyo with 33 of the world’s top dancers.
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Royal Academy of Dance launches ninth season of its ‘Why Dance Matters’ podcast with Misty Copeland
The Royal Academy of Dance has launched series nine of its podcast, Why Dance Matters. First episode with Misty Copeland.
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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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The second Dance for Ukraine gala at The London Palladium
Ivan Putrov’s second Dance for Ukraine gala in support of his home country, ahead of the anniversary of the war, will be held on Sunday 18 February 2024.
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[Review and Photo Album] Olga Smirnova and Jacopo Tissi in Swan Lake at La Scala
The two former Bolshoi principals who left soon after the Russian invasion, Olga Smirnova and Jacopo Tissi, dance Swan Lake at La Scala.
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The silence of the cultural elite – moral dilemmas of working in dance in today’s Russia
Can art, in this case dance, be a protection from politics? Do you become a collaborator if your work is helping to fill the coffers of the regime?
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After the Bolshoi, Jacopo Tissi joins Dutch National Ballet
After a season guesting, Italian dancer Jacopo Tissi joins his Bolshoi Theatre colleague Olga Smirnova at Dutch National Ballet.
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Prix de Lausanne 2023 – the full lineup
The Prix de Lausanne 2023 50th anniversary complete programme, and the lineup for the Gala of the Stars
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Rome Opera Ballet – Season 2022-2023
The new season of the Rome Opera Ballet is announced by the company’s director, Eleonora Abbagnato.
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Extraordinary dancers will dance for Ukraine in Naples and Milan
Two upcoming galas in Italy to raise money for Ukraine bring together some of the dance names that have been making headlines recently.
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Olga Smirnova leaves the Bolshoi Company for Amsterdam
Russian principal dancer Olga Smirnova, an outspoken critic of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, leaves the Bolshoi Ballet to join Dutch National Ballet.
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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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#WorldBalletDay 2020: The Royal Ballet, Bolshoi and Australian Ballet itineraries for 29 October
World Ballet Day 2020 on 29 October, will be the biggest ever celebration of global dance with 40 dance companies participating in this year’s live streamed event.
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The Style of Movement: Fashion and Dance – dance photography from NYC Dance Project
Ken Browar and Deborah Ory – the husband-and-wife team behind the NYCDance Project – have their second dance photography book coming out next week: The Style of Movement: Fashion and Dance.
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The impeccable Bolshoi dancers in Maillot’s slick Taming of the Shrew at La Scala
Lots of empty seats were available for the Bolshoi Ballet at La Scala in The Taming of the Shrew. La Bayadère – great; Swan Lake – ooh yes; Giselle – lovely; Taming of the Shrew? – err. Word of mouth did its bit after the opening night, but with just three consecutive performances there wasn’t…
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Review: Three casts for La Bayadère with the Bolshoi at La Scala
How secretly gratifying it is when wine experts trip up, rating High Street plonk higher than the Premier cru. Ballet music could benefit from unlabelled listening. Minkus is routinely pooh-poohed, yet how many superb, theatrical moments he creates for La Bayadère — sublime, exhilarating, haunting, joyous. If interval chatter isn’t focussed on complaining about the…
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Photo Album and full casting – Bolshoi dancers in Milan
After an 11-year absence, the Bolshoi Ballet returns to Milan. In 2007, the company came with La Fille du Pharaon and The Bright Stream. From 7 to 13 September they will be at La Scala with La Bayadère in the Grigorovich production, and Jean-Christophe Maillot’s The Taming of the Shrew. Svetlana Zakharova and Denis Rodkin,…
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Bolshoi Ballet’s Vladislav Lantratov on the cancelling of Nureyev: There is nothing worse for an artist…
On 8 July, after the dress rehearsal of the Bolshoi Ballet‘s ambitious new ballet on the life of Rudolf Nureyev, the premiere was cancelled. Vladislav Lantratov was to have played Nureyev and, stunned by the announcement, wrote on Instagram, Нет слов…… понимание что ты только полюбил роль, начал вживаться в спектакль, всё начало складываться… и…
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Bolshoi Ballet in cinema 2017-2018
The Bolshoi have released their cinema screening programme for the next season. Four are live broadcasts and four have already been transmitted. This is the 5th year that the Bolshoi has been broadcasting to cinemas. The season’s main event is the Russian premiere of Alexei Ratmansky‘s Romeo and Juliet. His Flames of Paris is also in…
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Positano Premia la Danza Léonide Massine winners 2014
Last night the threatening weather held off, and the gala and award ceremony for the Positano Premia la Danza Léonide Massine on the main beach at Positano went ahead as planned. The exquisite setting on the Amalfi Coast is what attracted artists such as Nureyev, and Massine himself, who made the area their holiday home, and when…
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Positano Massine Prize 2014: Ek, Laguna, Smirnova and Wheeldon honoured
The attraction that Positano and its seascape have always exercised over artists of the dance is the reason that, on 2 August 1969, the Premio Positano was established. Ten years later, on the death of Léonide Massine, the Award was named after him. Now into its 42nd edition, the 2014 Awards will be presented on Saturday 6…
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Zach’s Diary part four: Auditions and end-of-year show
Zach’s Diary part one: Growing up dancing in Canada Zach’s Diary part two: Starting at Stuttgart’s John Cranko-Schule Zach’s Diary part three: Balanchine, class and holidays My original plan for the next two years was to study at the John Cranko school, and I have been really enjoying my first year here. That being…
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Meanwhile in Russia… Vaganova & Bolshoi latest
The Russian Ministry of Culture announced this morning that there would be an external inspection of the organisation of St Petersburg’s Vaganova Ballet Academy. It will examine the economic and educational structure for irregularities after “”the emergence of numerous items in the media, which refer to procedural violations at the Vaganova Academy”. Though, bizarrely, the Ministry…
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