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In Memoriam 2025: artists who died this year… Singers, Dancers, Actors, Musicians, Writers, Directors
In memoriam 2025: a personal list remembering some of the artists who died in 2025.
Strictly Come Dancing
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obituaries | dance | news
Ukrainian dancer Volodymyr Rakov has been killed in action – he was 30
Volodymyr Rakov, a dancer, choreographer, and winner of the Ukrainian show So You Think You Can Dance, was killed in action on 6 January 2025. He was 30.
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Dancing Times, the world’s oldest dance magazine, celebrates 110 years
1910 saw George V ascend to the throne, the trial and execution of Dr Crippen, the publication of E M Forster’s Howard’s End and the birth of Alice Marks, later Alicia Markova, the country’s first prima ballerina. 1910 was also the year that Phillip J S Richardson founded Dancing Times – it was the first independent magazine devoted solely to dance
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Darcey Bussell answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Dame Darcey Bussell talks about loves and dislikes from Astaire to Jane Fonda, from Chorus Line to Romeo & Juliet, from dyslexia to diamond earrings.
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Carla Fracci and the Women’s National Volleyball Team
Carla Fracci, Rosita Missoni (founder, with her husband, of the Missoni fashion house in the 1950s), Marco Tronchetti Provera (Chief Executive of Pirelli), Javier Zanetti (the footballer) and Italy’s Women’s National Volleyball Team were recipients of the prestigious Grande Milano (not to be confused with Gramilano) Award for being Ambassadors for Italy throughout the world….
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Eleanor Bergstein’s Dirty Dancing alights in Milan
Dirty Dancing comes to Milan with the biggest advance booking since Stage Entertainment took over the Teatro Nazionale, beating even Beauty and the Beast and Mamma Mia! The producers must be breathing a sigh of relief as the Italian economy’s bumpy ride doesn’t seem to be affecting ticket sales, such is the film in the cultural…
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Darcey Bussell rises like a phoenix after depression down under
Nobody could have failed to be moved by Darcey Bussell‘s farewell to the stage in 2007. It seemed more an outpouring of grief than a sad farewell. She told The Sunday Times, My God, I cracked. I just wanted to do the show really well, so that I’d be happy to finish. But I just bawled. It was pathetic….
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archived | dance | Italy | television
BBC Worldwide to sue Silvio Berlusconi’s TV network
BBC Worldwide is suing an Italian television network owned by Silvio Berlusconi over claims that it has copied Strictly Come Dancing. A hearing is due to take place on tomorrow about a new show called Baila!, which is set to debut on Mediaset’s Canale 5 later this month. BBC Worldwide contends it copies Strictly’s concept, which…
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