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Roberto Bolle: Being a star is hard
Roberto Bolle is a serious person. He does half-an-hour of stretching and abs as soon as he gets out of bed, he doesn’t drink coffee with his breakfast but water (“sometimes warm”), and eats simple,...
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Maina Gielgud answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? I took my first ballet classes when I was about 6 years old. It was in Brussels, and with a Russian teacher married to a Belgian. Her name was Mme de Zeum. After my...
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Sylvie Guillem is cancelled in Florence
Sylvie Guillem, returning to a work en pointe for MaggioDanza in Florence, finds the first of her four performances cancelled. Guillem is the guest artist for an evening called Grandi Coreografi (Great...
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Protest organized in Moscow’s Red Square against the dismissal of Nikolai...
After it was announced that the Bolshoi Ballet will not renew the dancing and teaching contracts with Nikolai Tsiskaridze when they expire at the end of this month, many supporters have come forward....
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Download Cojocaru? With Crystal Ballet you can: Ballet goes Digital
Some of the brightest stars of British ballet have joined forces for a major dance initiative being launched next month. Genesis is a unique project set to captivate ballet audiences everywhere and...
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Sylvie Guillem’s ballet cancelled and a dancer finishes in hospital:...
Monday night’s opening of a quadruple bill at Florence’s Teatro Comunale was cancelled at the last moment, though a warning had been issued previously. A protest in Rome, against the cuts in the arts,...
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Sylvie Guillem shines in Forsythe’s Steptext in Florence
Various off-stage dramas lead up to Sylvie Guillem’s participation in MaggioDanza’s Great Choreographers programme. The second performance became the première after strike action cancelled Monday’s...
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Yosvani Ramos answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? When I was 10 years old in my hometown of Camagüey, Cuba. Why did you start dancing? I was bored in school and a teacher came looking for kids for ballet school and...
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In & Out: Bolle, Gomes, Stiefel — how easy is it to be an openly gay ballet...
When Roberto Bolle popped out and in of the closet four years ago internet forums and gossip rags foamed at the mouth. Openly gay ballet dancers, like openly gay actors and singers, are few and far...
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New director of the Bolshoi Theatre: I do not plan a revolution
Anatoly Iksanov has retired as director of the Bolshoi Theatre. His contract finishes in 2014 but he has retired early, or been sacked, according to different Russian news agencies. His successor...
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Ballet dancer forced out for making gay porn videos
A ballet dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School is claiming that he has been unfairly dismissed because he acts in pornographic videos. 22-year-old Jeppe Hansen from Denmark, joined the Royal...
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Roberto Bolle and working with Peter Greenaway, Bob Wilson and Fabrizio Ferri
Roberto Bolle has been doing the publicity rounds with his two tours of …& Friends coming up. The dance magazine Danza & Danza, recently revamped with a new look, have made him their...
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So tonite I lost it: Johan Kobborg’s heartbreaking departure from the Royal...
Johan Kobborg has given his last performance with the Royal Ballet, in Tokyo. The last performance was due to have been tomorrow evening for the opening of Swan Lake but he and Alina Cojocaru...
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Alina Cojocaru joins Tamara Rojo at the English National Ballet
Tamara Rojo said in an interview in May: It will be a friendly competition [with Covent Garden]. It’s great when, in a city like London, there are two companies who want to succeed. It keeps us...
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Compare and contrast: The Sunday Times vs The Observer
While the opinions expressed by theatre critics are always different, the five or six reviews that I read on major productions of plays, operas and ballets nevertheless head in the same general...
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Natalia Osipova: I could only live in London or Milan, New York’s too stressful
I’ll be a specially wicked Black Swan. I can’t believe that I’m to dance with a Siegried younger than me, the 21-year-old Claudio Coviello, who is making his début in the role: my Odile will seduce...
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Natalia Osipova and Claudio Coviello début in Nureyev’s Swan Lake
Prince Siegfried sleeps on his throne and in his dream he sees the evil Rothbart carrying off a white swan into the sky. This is how Rudolf Nureyev’s version of Swan Lake begins, and ends. The ballet...
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Mara Galeazzi’s addio: it’s time to think about my family
Mara Galeazzi, principal dancer with London’s Royal Ballet, though trained at the La Scala school in Milan, will say goodbye to her performing career on 23 July at a starry gala with colleagues from...
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Mara Galeazzi’s farewell gala with her Royal Ballet friends
Summer months in Italy boast many ballet galas: Bolle & Friends, Abbagnato & Friends… who doesn’t want to tour the glorious piazze of Italy: fantastic dance in fantastic settings. But this...
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Dancer Steven McRae morphs into a Japanese manga character
Dance firsts are rare: Albrecht nude? Seen it. Swan Lake in the round? Been there. But ballet manga is something new, at least when it involves a real dancer.What is manga? I hear the balletomanes cry...
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