Review: Ballet Central mixed bill – Central School of Ballet’s graduate company
Graham Watts sees Ballet Central perform four works: Solitaire, BOLERO 18, REPLICA, and Times Square Ballet.
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Review: Ballet Nights, New Futures – the opportunity to compare and contrast
Graham Watts sees New Futures from Ballet Nights, featuring 150 dancers from seven leading dance schools, but it needed pruning and better management.
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Review: McGregor / Maillot / Naharin, an eclectic triple bill at La Scala
Graham Spicer sees La Scala’s thrilling contemporary programme: Wayne McGregor’s Chroma, Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Dov’è la luna and Ohad Naharin’s Minus 16.
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Interview: Hannah O’Neill, Paris Opera Ballet Étoile, to debut with The Royal Ballet
Paris Opéra Ballet Étoile Hannah O’Neill will make her debut with The Royal Ballet in London as Giselle. Lily Hyde talked with her a few days before her first performance.
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Review: Natalia Osipova at the Linbury Theatre continuing her rollercoaster ride
Graham Watts sees Natalia Osipova in ‘Osipova/Linbury’ – “this remarkable star of 21st century ballet continues to expand her horizons”.
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Review: the Cullberg Ballet in Exposure – not to be read by minors under 18
Graham Spicer sees Alexandra Bachzetsis’ Exposure with the Cullberg Ballet – Stickers were placed over the camera lenses of every smartphone.
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Natalia Osipova returns to the Royal Ballet and Opera’s Linbury Theatre
Natalia Osipova returns with her Osipova/Linbury programme which contains work by Jo Strømgren, Akram Khan, Alexei Ratmansky and Frederick Ashton.
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Rocio Aleman answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Rocio Aleman was born in Monterrey, Mexico. In 2008 she went to Stuttgart to train at the John Cranko Schule, in 2011 she joined the Stuttgart Ballet becoming Principal Dancer in 2021.
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Interview: Tamara Rojo, San Francisco Ballet’s Artistic Director – bringing the art of ballet forward
Ann Haskins talks to Tamara Rojo as she begins her third season as Artistic Director of San Francisco Ballet.
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Review: English National Ballet’s The Forsythe Programme – the men come to the fore
Jonathan Gray sees ENB’s The Forsythe Programme and finds the men of the company “spruce, assured, playful and sexy” in “an evening of fast-paced dance”.
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Twyla Tharp awarded Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
The Lions of Biennale Danza 2025 go to Twyla Tharp (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement) and Carolina Bianchi (Silver Lion).
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Review: Manon at La Scala – Nicoletta Manni/Reece Clarke; Myriam Ould-Braham/Claudio Coviello
Graham Spicer sees The Royal Ballet’s Reece Clarke and Paris Opera Ballet’s Myriam Ould-Braham join colleagues at La Scala for Manon.
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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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Sadler’s Wells in London has announced seven new Associate Artists
Sadler’s Wells has announced seven new Associate Artists who represent a wide range of dance styles and are among the most exciting talents working in dance today.
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Free modern triple bill and Swan Lake over Christmas from Bavarian State Ballet
Bayerisches Staatsballett is offering a free streaming programme with Swan Lake on 24-26 December 2020 and the premiere of the modern triple bill Paradigma on 4 January 2021.
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Yasmine Naghdi answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Royal Ballet principal dancer Yasmine Naghdi talks about loves and dislikes from Spritz to Manon, Tokyo to Puglia, her grandmother’s table to Covent Garden.
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Francesco Lanzillotta answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Conductors’ Edition
Q&A When did you start playing an instrument? I was 6 years old, and I started to study cello. Why did you start playing? My father is a cellist and my mother loves music, so that is why I started to study cello so young. Which musicians inspired you most when you were young? Stravinsky,…
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In with the old – La Scala returns to Nureyev’s Sleeping Beauty
If there is a ballet that belongs to La Scala, it’s Rudolf Nureyev‘s production of The Sleeping Beauty, created for the ballet company in 1966 with Carla Fracci and Nureyev in the main roles. It was performed 152 times until 2007, when Tchaikovsky’s score fell silent for eight years until awoken by Alexei Ratmansky when…
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Martina Arduino answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start dancing? I started dancing for fun when I was four, and more seriously when I was 11 after I was accepted to the Ballet School of La Scala‘s Academy. Why did you start dancing? I went into the dancing school and was captivated by the atmosphere and the…
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La Scala’s ballet school show shows bold programming, with Forsythe’s signature piece making a debut
“That’s brave!”, was my first thought on seeing the La Scala Ballet School’s programme for its annual show: The Kingdom of the Shades act from La Bayadère together with In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated. And in Milan’s famous opera house too. It was a brave choice, but not an ill-considered one. The girls of the…
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Sylvie Guillem video project includes dancing underwater
After spending several days at the Montegrotto Spa near Padua which houses the world’s deepest pool, the Y-40 known as “The Deep Joy”, Sylvie Guillem arrived at Teatro Verdi in the city to do a little filming. It was when she received the Leone d’oro for her career at the Biennale Danza in 2012 in…
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William Forsythe on working as a stripper – “It’s great money” – and working with dancers – “You revive their faith”
In an interview to coincide with William Forsythe‘s A Quiet Evening of Dance at Sadler’s Wells, The Sunday Times’ David Jay spoke to the choreographer about a period as a young man when he worked as ‘a club dancer’. Forsythe was quick to correct: I worked as a stripper. Why not? It’s great money. Refreshingly…
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Exciting celebration of Rudolf Nureyev’s life with world ballet stars at Spoleto, tonight 28 July
2018 marks 80 years since Rudolf Nureyev was born and 25 since he died. La Scala in Milan have marked the occasion with a series of Gala celebrations and performances of his Don Quixote, Manuel Legris organised a celebration with the Vienna State Ballet, and many more tributes have been staged to doff a hat…
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Notes on Le Corsaire at La Scala… an alternative cast
The success of Le Corsaire’s first night cast at La Scala was reviewed here previously, but no less was an alternative cast which had a shining beacon in Martina Arduino as Medora. She is a lovely dancer who was thrust into the spotlight when Alexei Ratmansky plucked her from the corps.
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Photo Album: Nureyev Gala at La Scala – Zakharova, Louvet, Nuñez, Muntagirov and Bolle (and Nureyev at La Scala facts and figures)
Last night a Gala to celebrate Rudolf Nureyev was had at La Scala. It is the 80th Anniversary of his birth and also 25 years after his death. The Gala was previewed by a benefit audience on Thursday, and opened Friday 25 May, with further performances on 26 and 29 May. La Scala’s Étoiles Svetlana Zakharova and Roberto Bolle were joined…
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Photo Album: preview of tonight’s opening cast of Manon with Francesca Hayward and Federico Bonelli
Kenneth MacMillan‘s Manon is revived at Covent Garden as part of continuing celebrations of MacMillan’s profound impact on British ballet, to mark the 25th anniversary of his death. Tonight’s opening cast features Francesca Hayward, Federico Bonelli and Alexander Campbell. Production Credits Choreography Kenneth MacMillan Music Jules Massenet Orchestration Martin Yates Designer Nicholas Georgiadis Lighting designer John…
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Béjart’s Boléro returns to La Scala with Roberto Bolle and others debuting on the red table
Maurice Béjart’s Boléro returns to La Scala in March, with Roberto Bolle dancing the La Mélodie for the first time. The 15-minute work was last seen in the theatre in 2003 when Sylvie Guillem danced the central role. Béjart Ballet Lausanne’s ‘experts’ Elisabet Ros and Julien Favreau will be featured too, as well as three…
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A female pas de deux from Royal Ballet dancers Beatriz Stix-Brunell and Yasmine Naghdi
It’s relatively rare to see a female pas de deux in classical dance. In 2015, for her farewell tour, Sylvie Guillem asked Russell Maliphant to create a such a duet as she’d never danced with a female partner, so he created Here & After, which she danced all over the world with La Scala soloist Emanuela Montanari….
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La Scala Ballet’s programme change for the US – with Bolle, Nuñez and Copeland
The previously announced ballet to be performed at California’s Segerstrom Center by La Scala‘s Ballet Company was Mauro Bigonzetti’s Cinderella, a ballet created for the opening of La Scala’s ballet season in 2015. Bigonzetti had a short-lived tenure at the helm of the La Scala company: less than ten months, in 2016. His departure because of…
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Massimo Murru to play Onegin for one last time? His fans are doing all they can.
Massimo Murru has always had a very faithful following due to his thoughtful and rigorous approach to every role he has tackled in his career, and his artistic honesty, almost to the point of intransigence. It is a quality appreciated by Sylvie Guillem, among many other colleagues, who have wanted to work alongside him. He…
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