Last night the threatening weather held off, and the gala and award ceremony for the Positano Premia la Danza Léonide Massine on the main beach at Positano went ahead as planned.
The exquisite setting on the Amalfi Coast is what attracted artists such as Nureyev, and Massine himself, who made the area their holiday home, and when you add a stage, music and dance from some of the best performers in the world the result is magical.
Half a century separated the youngest and eldest winners celebrated during the award ceremony. Mats Ek and Ana Laguna both received the The Lifetime Achievement Prize, the Choreographer of the Year Prize went to Christopher Wheeldon, and the Bolshoi's Olga Smirnova and the Royal Ballet's Steven McRae received the prizes as Dancers of the Year on the International Scene. The Emerging Talent on the International Scene went to Mariinsky dancers Oxana Skoryk and Xander Parish, while PeiJu Chien Pott from the Martha Graham Dance Company and Alvaro Dule from Random Dance won the Contemporary Dancers of the Year award. Carlo Di Lanno, who has just left La Scala for San Francisco, won Italian Dancer of the Year and Giuseppe Comuniello from Virgilio Sieni Danza was awarded Italian Contemporary Dancer of the Year. ...continue reading.
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