Graham Spicer photographs the Youth Grand Prix annual event in Como with ‘Stars of Today’, certainly, and surely some ‘Stars of Tomorrow’ too.
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.
After last night’s performance of Sleeping Beauty at La Scala, soloist Navrin Turnbull was promoted to the role of Principal Dancer in the company.
Having just started as director of the Vienna State Ballet, ballerina Alessandra Ferri talks about where she is now.
Manuel Legris leaves his post as director of La Scala Ballet and we look back to the moment he took over in 2020.
On 9 March 2025, the Ballet Icons Gala will fulfil its annual promise of presenting dancers from across the world to the London public.
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.
The Frederick Ashton Foundation has announced details of Ashton Worldwide 2024-2028, an international festival to celebrate the work of Frederick Ashton.
Matthew Paluch sees Swan Lake with San Francisco Ballet and is struck by Nikisha Fogo’s Odette/Odile: a super interesting dancer – nothing is held back.
Alessandra Ferri will become the new director of the Wiener Staatsballett – the Vienna State Opera ballet company – from 1 September 2025.
A varied gala at La Scala to celebrate Carla Fracci who died 2 years ago. Roberto Bolle, Alessandra Ferri and other Italian guests joined the company.
La Scala replaces Anna-Marie Holmes’s version of Le Corsaire with that of the Milanese company’s director, Manuel Legris.
Photos of Le Corsaire from La Scala, which will be the first ballet to be live-streamed on La Scala’s new video channel LaScalaTV.
Many debuts in Onegin at La Scala saw some exciting and many promising performances, even if many of the dancers lack the magic spark.
Tickets to go on sale for the annual Ballet Icons Gala to be held on 19 February 2023 at the London Coliseum.
In July’s Dancing Times magazine I talk about La Scala Ballet’s exciting new principal Alice Mariani, and Emanuela Montanari’s farewell performance.
Two upcoming galas in Italy to raise money for Ukraine bring together some of the dance names that have been making headlines recently.
The leading dance magazine in Italy, Danza & Danza, has announced its annual awards including streams and videos of dance.
26-year-old Italian dancer Jacopo Tissi has been promoted to the top rank of the Bolshoi Company dancers in Moscow
Uwe Scholz’s Rite of Spring will be danced by Davide Dato, principal at Vienna State Ballet, and staged by the work’s original dancer Giovanni di Palma.
Alexei Ratmansky, Jiří Bubeníček, András Lukács and La Scala’s ballet director Manuel Legris give the theatre something to celebrate.
The latest issue of Dancing Times is now on sale. My Danza in Italia column features Eleonora Abbagnato and a new socially distanced dance piece, and in a separate article I interview La Scala’s new director, Manuel Legris.
Swedish ballerina Nikisha Fogo will soon take up a new position in a new company when she becomes a principal dancer at San Francisco Ballet. After seven years with the Vienna State Ballet, passing through the ranks from the corps de ballet to first soloist, director Manuel Legris’ decision to leave the company after ten years (he will take over at La Scala in December 2020) was a stimulus for her to move on.
When the Opera House in Vienna cancelled its performances from the 11 March, Fogo stayed in Vienna, not knowing whether it would be possible to finish the season, not being able to go home to Sweden, or on to San Francisco to find an apartment and settle in
The whispering in the corridors of La Scala has come to an end as, finally, it has been confirmed that Manuel Legris will take over from Frédéric Olivieri as Ballet Director. Legris, currently in the same position in Vienna, will assume the role in Milan at the end of this year. He already knows the…
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…
This morning, Frédéric Olivieri, director of La Scala‘s ballet company, announced the theatre’s 2019-2020 season: Sylvia 14 December 2019 – 14 January 2020 Music: Léo Delibes Choreography: Manuel Legris based on Louis Mérante and others Story and libretto: Manuel Legris and Jean-François Vazelle based on Jules Barbier and Jacques de Reinach Sets and costumes: Luisa…
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…
Last August, young ballet dancer Jacopo Tissi, resigned from the La Scala Ballet to accept the offer a contract with the Bolshoi Company. As I wrote last September, it’s not something that happens every day. Like all Russian companies, the Bolshoi has few dancers from outside the ex-Soviet borders in its ranks. However, Makhar Vaziev,…
Salsa, merengue and mambo… that’s how I started dancing. So says Davide Dato, Principal Dancer at the Vienna State Ballet. Many classical dancers began in their living room imitating Michael Jackson’s moonwalk, but the Caribbean dances for Dato were not just a phase. I started when I was very young, with my sister Greta. Our…
Jacopo Tissi, the young Italian dancer who is starting to make waves, has been offered a contract with the Bolshoi Ballet Company. That’s not something that happens every day. The Moscow company, like all Russian companies, has almost no dancers from outside the ex-Soviet borders. Tissi arrives via the Makhar Vaziev connection, the ex-director of…
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