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Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg leave the Royal Ballet
Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg have announced they will leave The Royal Ballet at the end of the 2012/13 season to pursue other artistic challenges. Their last performance at the Royal Opera House as...
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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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Relief among arts organizations as UK arts cuts are less than expected
The UK chancellor, George Osborne, has unveiled his 7% spending cut in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which is part of the Spending Review. The Arts Council will share less of the burden...
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Marianela Núñez and Thiago Soares launch eating disorders unit
Royal Ballet principal dancers Marianela Núñez and Thiago Soares have helped launch a £1.2 million adult eating disorders unit. They have worked with Professor Jon Arcelus, who is a consultant...
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Mara Galeazzi returns home for her swan song
You may not to get to see Royal Ballet principal Mara Galeazzi dance at the Royal Opera House again (addio 13 June 2013 in Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling), or with the Royal Ballet (addio 29 June in...
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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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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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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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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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Sarah Lamb, Marianela Nuñez, Gary Avis, Steven McRae, Thiago Soares and Edward Watson celebrate Mara GaleazziAs Royal Ballet dancers arrived in Verona to share the stage with Mara Galeazzi for the last...
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Crystal Ballet’s Genesis hits n°1 in the charts
In June we told you about Crystal Ballet’s exciting project: a ballet created to be filmed for digital download. Now the first installment of Genesis has reached N°1 in the iTunes classical music video...
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Xander Parish answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A Xander Parish — photo by Sila Avvakum When did you start dancing? I started dancing when I was 8 years old. Why did you start dancing? After seeing my younger sister (Demelza Parish currently...
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You choose it out of Love! Dancing with the Khan-MacKay family
Nicholas and Julian MacKay outside the Bolshoi Theatre June 2013 Dancing, like acting and singing, often runs in the family. There are countless dancers whose parents danced: Zenaida Yanowsky (Royal...
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Alessandra Ferri: an Italian girl in New York
Alessandra Ferri arrived to live in New York when she was 22, after Mikhail Baryshnikov invited her to join the American Ballet Theatre. She was born in Milan, and studied at the La Scala Ballet...
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Portrait of Dame Monica Mason is unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery
Dame Monica Mason and portrait - copyright Jorge Herrera Photography Copyright: Jorge Herrera Photography A newly commissioned portrait of Dame Monica Mason, by artist Saied Dai has been unveiled at...
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Steven McRae answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A Steven McRae by Rick Guest When did you start dancing? Age 7 in Sydney, Australia. Why did you start dancing? My sister inspired me; she was a brilliant gymnast who also danced. Which dancer...
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Andrej Uspenski with Steven McRae in the Fast Lane
Steven McRae Dancer in the Fast Lane by Andrej Uspenski Andrej Uspenski has photographed Steven McRae over the past year, and the results can be seen in his new book, Dancer in the Fast Lane. The book...
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Carlos Acosta brings a touch of Cuba to the Royal Opera stage
Royal Ballet Principal Carlos Acosta will bring Cubanía, a programme of Cuban dance inspired by his homeland, to the Royal Opera House in July. The mixed programme contains world premieres and...
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From Lombardy to London: interview with the Royal Ballet’s Valentino Zucchetti
Valentino Zucchetti by Andre Uspensky Italian dancer Valentino Zucchetti is one of a large number of Italian dancers who go abroad to find work and realise their dreams. Italy has few ballet...
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