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Dance photographer Elliott Franks dies at 62
The talented, well-respected, and much-loved photographer Elliott Franks has died at his London home at age 62.
Ukraine
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Review: Ivan Putrov’s Dance for Ukraine gala – raising funds to support ballet students
Graham Watts praises Dance for Ukraine – a very fine show, worthy of fulsome support.
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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.
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Interview: Riccardo Chailly and director Vasily Barkhatov on Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk which opens La Scala’s opera season
On the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich’s death, La Scala opens its opera Season with his masterpiece Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
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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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Celebrated organist Gail Archer announces 2025 Ukrainian Relief Tour
American organist, music director, choral conductor and academic, Gail Archer, will tour a Concert for Ukrainian Relief from February until May 2025.
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[Review] São Paulo Dance Company Triple Bill – “The dancers shine through”
Jonathan Gray sees São Paulo Dance Company: “beautifully trained, nimble, fluent, musical, rhythmically alert, dexterous, confident and highly watchable”.
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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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Pacific Northwest Ballet in ‘Love and Loss’ with works by Alexei Ratmansky, Dani Rowe and Donald Byrd
Graham Watts sees Pacific Northwest Ballet’s triple bill ‘Love and Loss’, after getting to know the company via its streaming performances during the pandemic.
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Sarah Jessica Parker produces Front Row, a documentary following the United Ukrainian Ballet
Sarah Jessica Parker is producing ‘Front Row’, a documentary about the United Ukrainian Ballet, spotlighting Ukrainian dancers after the Russian invasion.
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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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Pro-Putin dancer Sergei Polunin’s show to be staged in Milan in January
In January 2023, a theatre in Milan will present a ballet starring pro-Putin dancer Sergei Polunin – the ‘rock star of world dance’ says the theatre.
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La Scala’s glitzy season opening with Boris Godunov: Protests, Putin and politicians
This evening the curtain goes up at La Scala on the opera to open the season, Boris Godunov, and the annual protests outside the theatre have begun.
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Ukrainian children’s choir rehearses in a bomb shelter before its New York concert
In preparation for its December concert at Carnegie Hall, the Shchedryk Children’s Choir from Ukraine has been practising in a bomb shelter.
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Giselle with Alina Cojocaru and the United Ukrainian Ballet: unforgettable moments
Matthew Paluch reviews Giselle with Alina Cojocaru, Alexandr Trusch, Vladyslava Kovalenko and the United Ukrainian Ballet.
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Sergei Polunin now boasts three Putin tattoos
Sergei Polunin has posted an image of his torso on social media, now with three Putin tattoos.
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Odesa Opera House reopens, but without Russian music
The Odesa National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet has eliminated Russian music from its programming.
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Royal Opera House dance and opera initiatives for Ukraine
Today, the Royal Opera House unveiled fundraising initiatives in support of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.
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Anna Netrebko ‘under new management’
Anna Netrebko has been dropped by (or has dropped) her global management, Centre Stage Artist Management in Berlin.
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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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Gala for Ukraine with Ukrainian ballerina Iana Salenko
Prima ballerina Iana Salenko will perform with Royal Danish Ballet dancers in a Gala for Ukraine. Many of Salenko’s family and friends are still in Kyiv.
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Sergei Polunin cancels Milan show. Reason? Injured Achilles.
Sergei Polunin’s much-delayed show, Rasputin, has been cancelled… again. It is being postponed for the sixth time.
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Natalia Osipova and international ballet stars dance for Ukraine
Former Royal Ballet stars Ivan Putrov (Ukraine) and Alina Cojocaru (Romania) are putting on Dance for Ukraine, a benefit gala at the London Coliseum.
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Principal dancers leave the Mariinsky and Bolshoi companies
Principal dancers Jacopo Tissi and Xander Parish have decided to leave the Bolshoi and Mariinsky ballet companies after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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German support for Ukrainian dancers
The non-profit Praetorian and Tobias Ehinger of the Dortmund Theatre have set up a support system in Germany for Ukrainian dancers who have left their country.
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Anna Netrebko cancels Adriana Lecouvreur performances at La Scala
Anna Netrebko has said that she will not be coming to Milan for performances of Adriana Lecouvreur from 9 March, but not for health reasons.
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Dancing in the museum: Diana Vishneva’s cross-media project ‘Imprint in Motion’
Diana Vishneva’s latest project – Imprint in Motion – is a cross-media project fusing the fine arts, contemporary dance, music, and film making, and focuses on the human body in a variety of forms.
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Sergei Polunin on sex change, his new girlfriend, and manning up
In an interview, before several appearances in the Italian peninsula over the next two months, Sergei Polunin said, I deeply believe in love. It’s a universal feeling; everyone wants to love and be loved. Today, I see a separation between men and women with too much aggressivity and competition between the sexes. For me, if…
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Passion, Love, Life… InternationBalLET makes its debut in Italy
InternationBalLET has arrived in Italy for two performances of its programme Passion, Love, Life… The newly-formed group is made up of dancers from the Hungarian State Ballet in Budapest but, remarkably, six of the twelve dancers are Italian, underlining something that this Italian-based blog has held to be true for a long time: Italians dance,…
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Albert Ayzenberg photographing dancers, “it’s not just about capturing a beautiful silhouette”
Photographer Albert Ayzenberg was born in the Ukraine, transferring to the United States when he was a child. It was there that he received his first camera. Since I was a little boy I’ve been fascinated with photography. When we moved to the United States my parents bought a Canon Sure Shot Supreme. I had…
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