The attraction that Positano and its seascape have always exercised over artists of the dance is the reason that, on 2 August 1969, the Premio Positano was established. Ten years later, on the death of Léonide Massine, the Award was named after him. Now into its 42nd edition, the 2014 Awards will be presented on Saturday 6 September in the captivating setting of Positano's main beach.
An associate of Diaghilev settled in Italy's most vertical town, which hugs the cliffs of the Amalfi Coast, and began hosting Ballets Russes collaborators such as Lifar, Bakst, Nijinsky, Stravinsky, Picasso and Cocteau. Léonide Massine was so smitten with the area that he bought the Li Galli Islands across from Positano and made his home there. Rudolf Nureyev bought the islands from him and for the last 26 years of his life he would come to recharge his batteries in this spellbinding idyll. ...continue reading.
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