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.
Emails about many initiatives have arrived in gramilano’s inbox over the last few days for International Dance Day – 29 April 2026. Here is a selection.
Les Étoiles, the well-known gala format seen across Italy, returns to the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan this weekend – on 11 April at 9 pm and on 12 April at 5 pm.
Les Étoiles gala returns to Rome’s Parco della Musica this weekend with a stellar cast including Tiler Peck, Vadim Muntagirov, Riva & Repele, and Sergio Bernal.
Lydia Wharf sees Béjart Ballet Lausanne dance works by Riva&Repele, Andonis Foniadakis and Maurice Béjart and finds “a company looking forward with confidence”.
Royal Ballet School-trained ballerina Georgie Rose discusses dancing at Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, her choreographer Sergio Bernal, and living with Tourette’s syndrome.
Les Étoiles Pour Homme – With a title that sounds like a men’s perfume producer Daniele Cipriani throws down a gauntlet to George Balanchine.
Donatella Bertozzi sees West Side Story in Rome with its strong and pervasive rhythmical sense of staging.
Graham Spicer sees the Les Étoiles galas in Milan with ballet stars in thrilling pas de deux and seductive modern repertoire.
Italian producer Daniele Cipriani brings his Les Étoiles gala format to Milan for the first time, at the Arcimboldi Theatre.
Italian producer Daniele Cipriani’s Les Étoiles gala for the Ravenna Festival featured a varied programme with a first-rate cast.
The Still I Rise Gala at Milan’s Teatro Carcano was organised by former Paris Opera Ballet dancer Alessio Carbone with proceeds going to the charity Still I Rise.
Mixing music, the spoken word and dance, Soirée Rachmaninoff at the Ravenna Festival celebrated the music of the great Russian composer.
The double anniversary of Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), 150 years after his birth and 80 years after his death, is celebrated at the Nervi and Ravenna festivals.
Giulietta is the title of a new evening of dance with Eleonora Abbagnato for the Italian summer, and where better to open the mini tour than in Giulietta’s hometown: Verona.
A modern-day Juliet, still a child, imagines herself as an adult: I talk to the choreographer of Giulietta, a new ballet + rehearsal photos.
Eleonora Abbagnato, former étoile with the Paris Opera Ballet and director of the Rome Opera Ballet, will tour with her young daughter.
Two upcoming galas in Italy to raise money for Ukraine bring together some of the dance names that have been making headlines recently.
October’s Dancing Times contains the last “Notes from New York” column from Jack Anderson as well as Gramilano’s “Danza in Italia” column on the Nervi Festival.
A captivating programme of dance dedicated to Igor Stravinsky on the 50th anniversary of his death launched the dance season at this year’s Nervi Music Ballet Festival.
Nervi Music Ballet Festival 2021 celebrates the 50th anniversary of Stravinsky’s death in a programme of music and dance.
Dance programming for the festive period from companies all over the world are many: free, subscription and pay-per-view. Here are some that have caught my eye.
Free streaming of the all-male dance gala Duets and Solos from the Luciano Pavarotti Municipal Theatre in Modena on 6 December at 8pm
There are many, many Italian dancers scattered around companies throughout the world. Some are in the corps de ballet, others are principal dancers, but all continue the tradition that made Italian dancers some of the most famous of all. Even leaving the men aside, we have Pierina Legnani (noted as ‘maybe’ being the first to…
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