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Ivan Nagy, Carla Fracci, John Prinz and Natalia Makarova in the 70s
Ivan Nagy, Carla Fracci, John Prinz and Natalia Makarova as captured by photographer Jack Mitchell in the 1970s when all were part of the American Ballet Theatre. … [continue reading]The post Ivan...
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A caro Ivan con amore… A man is a man Ivan was a man A man who danced Who danced with his soul As true dancers must. A dancing friend A friend who has left us A man who has left us Until we meet again…...
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Roland Petit on Colette, Poulenc, Cocteau, Fracci, Murru and his ballet Chéri
Roland Petit rehearsing Chéri with Carla Fracci Roland Petit’s evocative and charming ballet, Chéri, was created at La Scala in 1996 for the mature Carla Fracci who turned sixty that year. Colette’s...
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Carla Fracci returns to dance on Italy’s heel
Carla Fracci, now in her 78th year, will be opening in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice tomorrow, at Lecce’s Teatro Politeama Greco. The Italian ballet icon will be appearing with the Balletto del Sud in the...
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Carla Fracci’s autobiography: Step After Step
Based on a long series of conversations with Enrico Rotelli, Passo dopo passo (Step After Step) is Carla Fracci telling her story in her own words. From a simple childhood during the war to the...
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Carla Fracci, Claudio Coviello and the Prix Benois 2014
Ashley Bouder, Carla Fracci, Lucia Lacarra, Claudio Coviello and Vittoria ValerioFor more than twenty years the Benois Prize has been recognising talent with the most starry juries imaginable. The...
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Rothko in Rome: an interview with Carolyn Carlson
DIALOGUE WITH ROTHKO — Carolyn Carlson — photo © Yoshi Omori“It’s very difficult to tour now in Italy with its money problems,” Carolyn Carlson tells me, which makes producer Daniele Cipriani a brave...
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Carla Fracci for Expo 2015: Milan, Capital of the World
The Milanese ballerina, Carla Fracci, has become an Ambassador for the Milan Expo 2015.The theme of the World Expo is Feed the planet, Energy for Life and in the clip below she talks about her love for...
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More dancers decide to leave Italy… most never come back
Italy's Got Talent. Lots of it. Sometimes that talent finds it difficult to emerge - it's not always what you know but who you know - and sometimes there's not enough room for everyone to show what...
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Carla Fracci celebrates her 78th birthday in a new ballet
On 20 August last year Carla Fracci was celebrating her birthday frolicking in the Mediterranean Sea with her two grandchildren.This year, her 78th birthday, she'll be opening in a new ballet in the...
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Italy’s PM Matteo Renzi and Carla Fracci… step in step?
What have Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, and Italian Ballet Icon, Carla Fracci got in common?Well, they were colleagues when Renzi was the Mayor of Florence and Fracci was (and still is)...
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Positano Massine Prize 2014: Ek, Laguna, Smirnova and Wheeldon honoured
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...
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Positano Premia la Danza Léonide Massine winners 2014
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...
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A magical Natalia Osipova with Claudio Coviello in Romeo and Juliet
Natalia Osipova took my breath away with her extraordinary portrayal of Juliet in Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet at Teatro della Scala. The whole company shone, the soloists were excellent, and...
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Amici della Scala celebrates Lila de Nobili with Frigerio, Fracci, Bruson and …
The annual presentation of the latest additions to the series of books produced by the Amici della Scala (Friends of La Scala) is quite an event. It is held in the grand foyer on the first floor of...
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Carla Fracci’s photo album: opening night at La Scala
One of the most elegant evenings of the Italian cultural calendar wouldn't be complete without one of the Italian artists who symbolises elegance: Carla Fracci.The ballerina, who grew up through the La...
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Roberto Bolle on (not) retiring at forty
All the stars, the étoiles, have gone on dancing past pensionable age. Roughly speaking, that’s 45 for a dancer. For most people this is about the right age, but it changes for those who have charisma....
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Massimo Murru on Roland Petit: he was a great s*****o!
We tend to gloss over the negative aspects of colleagues who are no longer with us, and are usually discreet about their shortcomings when they are still alive. It is left to the gutter press to dig up...
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Pereira announces that Carla Fracci will return to the stage of La Scala
La Scala’s new sovrintendente, Alexander Pereira, has announced that Carla Fracci, the Italian ballerina par excellence, will return to the Milanese theatre that witnessed many of her triumphs during...
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Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya dies at 89
Maya Plisetskaya died of a heart attack today in Munich. She was 89. The director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Vladimir Urin, said, She died of a severe heart attack. The doctors tried everything, but there...
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