The latest issue of Dancing Times magazine (out on Friday) contains a double-page spread dedicated to the Gramilano ‘Danza in Italia’ column reviews, with a look at Rudolph Nureyev’s Sleeping Beauty at La Scala, The Tokyo Ballet on tour in Italy, and Daniele Cipriani Company’s new production SHINE Pink Floyd Ballet at Verona’s Teatro Romano. […]
Pink Floyd Ballet
SHINE Pink Floyd Moon – a dazzling new dance work casts its magic spell
SHINE Pink Floyd Moon is a new dance work from Belgian choreographer, Micha van Hoecke, based on the British band’s most celebrated tracks. Their music is performed live by a ‘tribute’ band, Pink Floyd Legend, though that term might conjure up a negative image of bad wigs and costumes. No, this band, directed and fronted […]
SHINE – the Pink Floyd Rock-Opera Ballet in Verona’s Teatro Romano, 5 September
“You must understand that you are another world in miniature, and that there is in you sun and moon and also stars.” It’s certainly unusual to kick off a press release about a dance show with a quote from a third-century Christian scholar. Simonetta Allder, head of the press office for Daniele Cipriani Entertainment, usually […]
Rock ballet ‘SHINE Pink Floyd Moon’ by Micha van Hoecke tours Italy’s open air festivals
Belgian choreographer, Micha van Hoecke, has collaborated extensively with conductor Riccardo Muti over the years, providing choreography for operas when the Maestro was head of La Scala, and then later in Rome when Muti took over at the Rome Opera for a short time. The association also brought him to the Ravenna Festival, founded and […]
Vasiliev is still a jeune homme… careful Ivan!
Ivan Vasiliev is a powerful performer, both physically and emotionally. His prowess in ballet pyrotechnics – the leaps, the turns – has brought him fame throughout the world. But he’s no circus performer as his Quasimodo in Roland Petit’s Notre Dame de Paris in Milan or his Romeo in Frederick Ashton’s production of Romeo and Juliet in London demonstrated; […]
Roland Petit in pictures
From top left to right: Alessandra Ferri and Julio Bocca in Carmen; Carla Fracci and Massimo Murru in Chéri; Roland Petit and Carla Fracci rehearsing Chéri; Roland Petit and Loipa Araujo in Coppélia; Zizi Jeanmaire in Mon truc en plumes; Mikhail Baryshnikov in Le jeune homme et la mort; Nicolas Le Riche in Le jeune homme et la […]
Great French choreographer Roland Petit dies at 87
Great French choreographer and dancer Roland Petit died today in Geneva after a long illness. He was 87. The Paris Opera Ballet gave out the news earlier today. French culture minister Frederic Mitterrand said Petit was “one of the major choreographers of the 20th century”. “With his muse Renee Jeanmaire, or Zizi, with whom he formed […]
La Scala ballet company brings Roland Petit’s “Pink Floyd Ballet” to Istanbul
After last year’s surprise hit at Milan’s La Scala of a revival of Petit’s “Pink Floyd Ballet” with Svetlana Zakharova, Massimo Murru, Guillaume Côté and Altankhuyag Dugaraa, the company are now touring the production to Turkey. From tonight in Istanbul Congress Centre the La Scala ballet will perform five performances over the next four days. “Our goal in bringing this project to […]
