By Victor Swoboda Displaced by war, 60 Ukrainian dancers, artists, and technicians have hastily joined a new company called United Ukrainian Ballet based in the Netherlands. “I read about the war every day, but I try to do it less often because I get too worried,” said one of the company’s ballerinas, Anastasia Mirraslavska, 26,
By Silvia Poletti On April 9, at the end of the first edition of Gala Fracci — Teatro alla Scala’s celebration of the late Carla Fracci, intended to become an annual affair — the theatre’s red curtains closed on the dancers applauding the ballerina’s image projected onto the backdrop. With that moving conclusion to the
By Jeannette Andersen Every choreographic work is an intricate amalgam of many elements combined to evoke feelings and thoughts, perhaps telling stories, perhaps abstract. The choreographer and the set, costume and lighting designers work with forms and lines in space and time, choosing their material with care; for the choreographer, that means the dancers, with