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http://geimoriballet.jp  

Sapporo, JAPAN! I came back here after 20 years, this time as a teacher. Wonderful to be a part of Sapporo Art Park Ballet Seminar 2017 together with amazing teachers led by Josè Carlos Martinez. . 札幌芸術の森バレエセミナー2017に講師として参加しました。20年前は受講生として参加していたので感慨深い。元パリ・オペラ座のエトワールで主任講師のジョゼとアニエスはブノワ賞の先輩で、宮内真理子さんはジャイロキネシスの先輩。なんだか不思議なご縁に感謝です。

＊Teachers＊ ジョゼ・カルロス・マルティネズ Josè Carlos Martinez （主任講師/Head teacher for Seminar) - アニエス・ルテスチュ（クラシック/Classical Ballet） Agnès Letestu - アナエル・マルティン（クラシック/Classsical Ballet） Anael Martín - イザベル・エルアール（キャラクター/Character) Isabelle Hérouard - 木田真理子（コンテンポラリー/Contemporary dance） Mariko Kida - 宮内真理子Mariko Miyauchi （ジャイロキネシス/Gyrokinesis）

- 伊藤さよ子Sayoko Ito（ジャイロキネシス/Gyrokinesis）

素晴らしい通訳さん、ピアニストさんにもお会いできました。

It was such an amazing week at Sapporo Art Park Ballet Seminar 2017! I gave everything possible to the younger generation, I believe that they find a way to shine in the future. Thank you everyone who involved in this seminar. The best team ever!! . 昨日、札幌芸術の森バレエセミナー2017が無事に終わりました。本当にこれ以上ない最高のチームに恵まれ感謝しています。関わったすべての方が大きな心と情熱をもっていて、経験や知識を共有しながら皆でベストを尽くせたこと、セミナーを進めていけたことは、ほんとうに宝だと思いました。 . 受講生のみなさんがそれぞれ自分の道を見つけ輝き続けることを願っています。 お疲れ様でした〜!

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photo(up) by Josè Carlos Martinez

Photo(down): 1997(pictures) & 2017(article)! Happy to be a part of Sapporo Art Park Ballet Seminar's history. 北海道新聞　夕刊 2017.07.31

20年前は受講生として(写真)、今年は講師として(記事)、札幌芸術の森バレエセミナーに関われたこと嬉しく思います。 これだけ充実した内容のセミナーを30年近く続けてきた方々が本当にすごいです。

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Lucía Lacarra (born 24 March 1975) is a Spanish ballet dancer who has been a principal with the Bayerisches Staatsballett (Bavarian State Opera Ballet) since 2002. A recipient of the Prix Benois de la Danse, she was named the Dancer of the Decade in 2011, at the World Ballet Stars Gala in Saint Petersburg

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Article: Meet Sae Eun Park, the Paris Opéra Ballet’s Newest Étoile

Date: July 8, 2021

By: April Deocariza

June 10, 2021, will not only go down as a monumental date in Sae Eun Park’s career, but in the Paris Opéra Ballet’s 352-year history. Following her debut as Juliet in Rudolf Nureyev’s Romeo and Juliet, Alexander Neef, general director of the Paris Opéra, and Aurélie Dupont, the ballet company’s artistic director, walked onstage to announce Park’s promotion to danseuse étoile, or principal dancer, becoming the first Korean woman to achieve the rank since the company’s founding.

Park joined the Paris Opéra Ballet in 2012 after a year as a supernumerary. Her repertoire with the company includes Tatiana in John Cranko’s Onegin, Odette/Odile in Nureyev’s Swan Lake, Alexei Ratmansky’s Seven Sonatas, and new works by Benjamin Millepied (La Nuit s’Achève) and Justin Peck (Entre Chien et Loup). She was also the 2010 gold medalist at the Varna International Ballet Competition and the 2018 female recipient of the Prix Benois de la Danse. 

Park recently talked to Pointe about her milestone achievement and more.

April Deocariza: How did you end up joining the Paris Opéra Ballet?

Sae Eun Park: I couldn’t join American Ballet Theatre after spending one and a half years at ABT II [now the ABT Studio Company], so I returned to Korea. I was happy to be with my family and friends, and to be dancing as a soloist at the Korean National Ballet. But deep down, there was also the aspiration to experience more in a wider world, and that desire led me to the Paris Opéra Ballet. My YouTube watchlist was filled with videos of POB, and I was enthralled by the movements of the beautiful dancers. Without much plan or thought, I packed my bag and flew to France to attend the company’s open audition. Being in the enormous theater itself was overwhelming, and I didn’t have any expectations—or regrets—after finishing my audition. As I was about to leave France, I received a phone call: “Would you accept our offer to sign a one-year contract?” I said “Yes!” without any hesitation.

April Deocariza: There is a lot of discussion these days around bringing more diversity to ballet. Have you ever experienced any challenges being an Asian dancer in the ballet world, particularly in Europe? 

Sae Eun Park: As an Asian, I did sometimes question myself and whether I could ever become an étoile. The answer? Yes, it is possible. I am extremely grateful. As a ballerina, I invested a lot of effort, and there were many challenges which I had to overcome, but I’m sure that this was the same for my French friends. I’ve always been treated the same way as my French colleagues, and we all had to go through the same difficulties. ‘Étoile’ is a challenging title to receive for anyone, but with talent and effort it is possible, regardless of nationality or skin color.

April Deocariza: Did your promotion come as a surprise to you or were you expecting it? How did you feel when it was announced after your performance of Romeo and Juliet?

Sae Eun Park: I thought I was dreaming when it was announced; no one had informed me about it, so it was a complete surprise. I did, however, get the feeling that there were people who were hoping for my promotion, but I tried to stay calm and remain focused on my performance. It was a very important performance for both the theater and myself, since it was the first time in front of an audience after a long and tough period with COVID-19. I wanted to pour everything out. 

April Deocariza: You are the first Korean ballerina to be named a danseuse étoile in the company’s history. What does that mean to you?

Sae Eun Park: I don’t think I’ve had difficulties because of the fact that I am an Asian dancer. What was challenging for me was moving to a new country, learning a new language and adapting to a new culture. The process of changing from the Vaganova style to the French style was very difficult.

Focusing on my dancing, I waited and believed that I could become an étoile when I was ready. People give me a big hand for giving up everything and starting over, but I actually didn’t find that difficult at all. It was rather fun. The hardest thing for me were the questions I had about my identity as a dancer. But now, I no longer feel obliged to heavily depend on or reflect the Russian, Korean or French styles of ballet. 

April Deocariza: What are your goals now after achieving this big step in your career?

Sae Eun Park: There are countless roles and ballets I haven’t done yet. I want to meet as many roles, ballets and choreographers as possible and expand my capabilities as an artist.

April Deocariza: What advice do you have for young dancers who hope to follow in your footsteps?

Sae Eun Park: I would encourage them to see a lot of performances in person. Sometimes dancers are reluctant to watch other people’s performances because they fear that their identity as an artist will be confused. However, from my experience, the more ballet performances I watched, the more inspired I was.

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First Mexicana to receive 'Prix Benois de la Danse'

First Mexicana to receive ‘Prix Benois de la Danse’

Elisa Carrillo Cabrera becomes the first Mexicana, first Latina to receive the ‘Prix Benois de la Danse’ the highest honor in the world of professional ballet, equal to a Noble Prize of dance.

“Dedico este premio a las mexicanas y a los mexicanos. Nunca dejemos de luchar y trabajar para alcanzar nuestros sueños” – Elisa Carrillo

[translation: “I dedicate this prize to the Mexican people,” she…

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Isaac Hernández, primer mexicano en ganar el Prix Benois de la Dans

Isaac Hernández, primer mexicano en ganar el Prix Benois de la Dans

El mexicano Isaac Hernández, bailarín principal del English National Ballet en Londres, Inglaterra, se convirtió este martes en el primer mexicano en ganar el premio más importante de la danza, los Prix Benois de la Danse,

La ceremonia de premiación se llevó a cabo en el mítico teatro del ballet ruso, el Bolshoi de Moscú.

El galardón es entregado por la International Dance Association, fundada en…

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Ask Responses: MISC

What are the Russia public's opinion and reviews on Alena Kovaleva and Eleonar Sevenard so far? What are the opinions and reviews on Ksenia Zhiganshina's debut as Aurora?

I purposefully stay aways from reviews these days (I’m incredibly tired of all the bullshit). Especially where Sevenard is concerned. People get way too personal and it’s impossible to form a decent understanding of how she’d doing. 

naive-lymphocyte said:In case you're interested, there's a video of E. Sevenard's variation from her Nutcracker debut. /watch?v=OgL_fd4NmHM

Thanks!

What do you know about the Benois De La Danse? Do you think calling it the "Oscars of ballet" is a fair comparison? Is it really that prestigious? Does winning an award benefit a dancer in the same way winning an Oscar would benefit and actor's career?

I don’t know what to think of Benois De La Danse. Like most competitions, it is very political and I know of instances when the award was blatantly bought for the artist by their “sponsor”. And I know of many great artists who received it fairly for their achievements. I don’t really buy into this whole awards business, to be honest.

Hi there, i've been checking out your since last year, you do a pretty good job :), i have a question: i read your thoughts about 'Strictly Bolshoi' sometime ago and i want to ask: have you ever watched the HBO documentary 'Bolshoi Babylon'? if you have, what do you think about it?

I couldn’t sit through the whole of Bolshoi Babylon. It’s such tripe. A massive lost opportunity and a piss-poor attempt to cash in on the 2013 scandal by people who don’t know the first thing about ballet and have very little respect for the artform.

Where do the Vaganova Students go on tour in Europe? Do you know this?

Please see my previous post.

Do you know if the Prix De Lausanne Gala has been posted?

VBA posted the videos of their students already but I’m not sure if a recording of the finals has been uploaded in its entirety. I’m sure the video will appear on the Prix YouTube channel sometime soon.

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headcanons about 16-year-old axel, lutz and loop nishigori

because they’ve been officially described as “having bottomless potential” and “can do anything, to the point that people forget they’re only six years old”, so naturally i wonder what they’ll be like when they’re older and are even more powerful than they are now

axel:

is a ladies’ singles skater. made her senior debut at 15 and is currently climbing her way up to become one of the top six ladies singles skaters in the world

is coached by yuuri and victor. in the beginning she’d give them a lot of guff, but by now they know how much of a handful she and her sisters can be and are better able to deal with her...like threatening to sic yuuko on her if she doesn’t behave

despite that, axel still loves and respects yuuri and victor a lot and has learned a lot from them, and she still loves to post as many selfies with them as possible

lutz:

unlike her sisters, she decided to stick with ballet under minako’s coaching and of course she’s gotten very good at it

she’s aiming to be internationally famous and eventually win the prix benois de la danse like minako did, and knowing her she may very well succeed

she’s still a huge figure skating otaku, though, and it doesn’t help that minako totally enables her in that regard (they both get pretty distracted when the grand prix is going on)

loop:

tried to do ice dancing at first, but she found she didn’t like it and decided to do pairs instead

she didn’t get along too well with her partner at first, but they eventually worked things out...especially since loop is a master of every kind of recording equipment and will get some dirt on him if he crosses her

thinking that after she retires, she’d like to be a figure skating commentator

all of them:

they are still each other’s best friends, and keep in touch as much as they can

they still keep in contact with yurio, who usually acts like he’s annoyed by them but still looks forward to getting texts from them

they are still powerful figure skating otaku, and their friends and family still dread what will happen when all three of them combine their insidious powers

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Com amigos para assistir "Cão Sem Plumas " Para celebrar os 25 anos de sua Companhia, Deborah Colker traz ao Teatro Sérgio Cardoso Cão Sem Plumas, espetáculo baseado no poema homônimo de João Cabral de Melo Neto, seu primeiro espetáculo de temática explicitamente brasileira. A estreia aconteceu em 3 de junho de 2017, no Teatro Guararapes, em Recife. Internacionalmente, o espetáculo teve sua estreia em outubro de 2018, no Byham Theater de Pittsburgh, EUA. Desde então, teve apresentações em outras cidades dos EUA, França, Inglaterra, Alemanha, Argentina e Uruguai, entre outras. Cão Sem Plumas recebeu em 2018 um dos mais importantes prêmios da dança mundial, considerado o Oscar da dança: o “Prix Benois de la Danse”, em Moscou, na categoria coreografia. #danca #dance #teatrosergiocardoso #bixiga #arte #art #deborahcolker #handrenrique #saopaulo #sp #ciddad #cidadedesp #saopaulonaoestaavenda (em Teatro Sérgio Cardoso) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByEFmUKHscG/?igshid=1ls9bdki8p4hi

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August Rush ballet omegaverse AU

Where Victor Nikiforov is your multiple champion ice skater who falls in love with Prix Benois de la Danse winner, Yuuri Katsuuki. Their lost son is Yuri Plisetski, talented little ice skater, who wants to win Grand Prix Junior and found his parents.

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Can I read yurii on ice even if I have zero clue who yurii is or is that super dumb (please be genital with your answer I'm a delicate soal) ❤️😂

I just have to point out one thing. I know you meant ‘be gentle’ but you put ‘genital’ which are just the external parts of the reproductive organs, and I laughed my ass off for like a minute!

You can read anything you want. I read several Johnlock fics before even watching the Sherlock(BBC). And to be frank, I wrote 3 fics before watching the show as well. And they’re still pretty well liked, considering I was going by what the wikia said and what I’d read on Tumblr.

Anyway, a basic rundown of Yuri!!! On Ice for you:

Katsuki Yuuri: AKA Katsudon(pork cutlet bowl)

23. 5′8. Japanese, brunet, brown eyes that can look sort of red tinted. Blue glasses. Competitive and a sore loser. Figure skater. ONLY certified male figure skater on the Japanese Skating Federation’s website. He’s got Anxiety and Depression and doesn’t realize how talented he is. Unreliable narrator to the MAX! Loves katsudon, which is his favorite dish.

Yuuri did ballet before he started figure skating. His friend Yuuko taught him how to skate. Russian skater Victor Nikiforov made him want to become a competitive skater. Yuuri is his biggest fanboy IstG. Yuuri can Flamenco, Tango, Ballet, Break Dance, Pole Dance, and probably other types of dances.

His ballet instructor/trainer is Minako Okukawa(recipient of the Benois de la Danse). His former coach was Celestino Cialdino(AKA Ciao-Ciao). His best friend is Phichit Chulanont(Thailand’s best men’s skater) who is coached by Celestino.

Victor Nikiforov: AKA Vitya

28. 5′11. Russian, silver hair and blue eyes. Wide forehead that he’s very concerned about and thinks he’s balding. Very confident and content in his sexuality and being. Five time consecutive Grand Prix Final(GPF) Gold Medalist. Five time consecutive World Champion Gold Medalist. Wears one of the Russian Team jackets from the Olympics, so probably an Olympic Gold Medalist too. 

Signature move is the Quadruple Flip. No one else in the series does it until Yuuri, Victor probably ratified it. He is EXTRA as fuck and very dramatic. Also likes to touch Yuuri a lot.

His coach was Yakov Feltsman. Other rinkmates were Georgi Popovich(romantic at heart and slightly creepy) and Mila Babisheva(tough and nice).

Yuri Plisetsky: AKA Yurio

14(at the start of the show) and 15(by the end of season 1). 5′4. Russian, blond hair and green eyes. Eager to become a Senior skater(he has to be 15 before the July before the season starts to make it, it’s a rule). He is Yuuri Katsuki’s biggest competitor, though not the only one. 

Brash and hard headed. Loud mouthed. Loves anything with felines. Is the main breadwinner in his family. Has a grandfather he adores. Is kind of mean, but when grandpa is brought up, he’s like an angel.

Teen angst. His coach is Yakov Feltsman. His choreographer is Lilia Baranovskaya(of the Bolshoi Ballet).

Yuuri makes it to the GPF(which is a BIG DEAL) but midway through the competition, his poodle(named after Victor) died. After a terrible showing during his Free Skate(or Long Program) the announcers comment that his showing in the competition was much different than his Short Program. Meaning he did relatively well in the SP but something(his dog’s death) changed him on the day he had to skate his FS.

Yuuri fell a lot and choked up in front of the audience, thereby dropping to last place(6th). He feels ashamed, and has a crisis over whether he should continue skating or not. Yuuri doesn’t realize that only the 6 best skaters made it to the GPF. He thinks that being in last was a failure.

A video of Yuuri skating one of Victor’s routine goes viral - which wasn’t meant to have been placed on the internet at all - and Victor Nikiforov’s attention is caught. He’s been having some issues coming to grips with the fact that he’s losing inspiration and will soon be aging out of the competitive side of his sport. He hops on a plane with his poodle(Makkachin or Maccachin) and moves to Japan to coach Yuuri in hopes of getting him to the GPF again and to find some inspiration once more.

The two grow closer, having fun, minor fights, and a breakdown or two along the way. It’s very sweet and the side story is great, so I would recommend watching the show because seriously, seeing these two orbit one another is the greatest!

Yuri Plisetsky is the other main character who experiences a lot of character growth, so don’t write him off. He’s a big deal in the long run.

Basically Yuuri wants to win. Victor takes a year off to coach him, causing an uproar. Drama unfolds as his idol moves in with him and decides to coach him, and it’s marvelous!

Warning: Nudity(lots of well sculpted ASS), fluff, cuteness, minor sadness for Yuuri, minor poodle scare, and usual sports drama. Episodes 7 and 10 are MUST SEES!

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this weekend i read a lot of asimov (good) and attempted to write (bad)

weirdly the only scene that survived is this one where victor talks to minako

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Yuuri Katsuki had a beautiful mouth.

Viktor thought about it often, his first weeks in Hasetsu, and watched it nearly as much. The marks had faded months ago from under his jaw, but every time he remembered, he could almost feel the twin pinpricks, Yuuri’s weight heavy on his lap. It was enough to drive anyone to distraction.

Only, Yuuri didn’t touch him again.

In Hasetsu, Yuuri kept a careful distance from Viktor; he backed away from Viktor’s touches, and his eyes slid down and sideways, breaking from Viktor’s gaze. Viktor pushed, retreated, pushed again, and found Yuuri remaining frustratingly out of reach.

What was he doing here, Viktor wondered sometimes. He’d come searching for a beginning that Yuuri had seemed to want just as much--his blood in Yuuri’s veins and Yuuri’s body moving through Viktor’s routine, that had struck him with the force of a promise, so what did it mean now that Yuuri was shutting himself away, what did it mean--

“I’m looking for Yuuri,” Viktor said, nearly and yet not at all what he wanted, and Minako looked at him with surprise, said, “He’s not here.”

Never here--never bright and open the way he’d been, demanding Viktor’s hand like it was already his, and Viktor wanted to give it to him, would do it if only he’d ask--

Minako took in his expression and pointed him to a stool. “Sit,” she said. “I’m gonna give you a drink.”

Viktor drank what she poured into his cup, and it barely burned going down.

“Yuuri used to dance, you know.”

“Yes.” Even if Yuuri hadn’t first come to him asking for a dance with his mouth turned up sweetly, Viktor would have known. There was grace written all along Yuuri’s movements, ballet in the way he turned on the ice. “Did you teach him? He’s good.”

She smiled at the compliment. “He spent a lot of time in the studio. It’s harder for us when we’re younger--less control, and everything feels more intense. So I used to let him in to practice, or go with him to the rink, when it got too much for him. It helped.”

There was something there, but it took him a moment to grasp. Then he raised his head and blinked at her. “You’re--”

He wasn’t sure he should say it directly, but she did it for him. “A vampire.” Minako’s smile was more deliberate now; Viktor saw the flash of her fangs, for just a moment, before they slid back out of sight. “It’s not rare in Hasetsu. It’s in the blood.”

Viktor could remember feeling too big for his skin at sixteen, his center of gravity shifting at seventeen, the way his tibia had cracked under stress at twenty. It was a betrayal every time, a reminder that the body always had the final say.

What was it like for Yuuri, then? The hunger under his skin; the desire. It’s rude, Yuuri had said, and was that too much, and stroked a careful finger over the bite marks when he’d finished, like an apology.

Minako Okukawa was the first danseur from the eastern hemisphere to win a Benois de la Danse. And Yuuri--Yuuri had turned to dancing, then skating, climbed his way up to make the Grand Prix Final and closed himself off everywhere but on the ice.

He finished his drink. “You must have been a joy to watch on the stage,” he said. “Thank you, I’ll look for him at the rink.”

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Sabato 5 settembre alle ore 20 la 48esima edizione di Positano Premia la Danza – Léonide Massine

POSITANO (SA)  – La perla della costiera amalfitana diventa ancora una vola capitale della danza il cielo di Positano brillerà con le etòiles di  Positano premia la danza. Il balletto internazionale si connetterà con il mondo nella 48esima edizione da sabato 5 settembre alle ore 20.

Sul sagrato della Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta eventi  live e digitali celebreranno il  palmarès 2020 particolarmente prestigioso con speciali riconoscimenti  a Anthony Dowell, il danseur noble del balletto britannico e Viengsay Valdes, erede artistica di Alicia Alonso.

Due le performance live previste:

Giancarlo Giannini, che sarà insignito del  Premio Vespoli, omaggerà i miti dell’arte coreutica che hanno amato la divina costiera

il sassofonista Marco Zurzolo, che riceverà il Premio Musica per la colonna sonora – interpretatat dal vivo –  del film tv di Rai1 In Punta di piedi di Alessandro D’Alatri.

In un anno in cui per effetto della pandemia si è dovuto rinunciare al tradizionale gala sulla spiaggia grande che guarda all’isola di Li Galli, luogo del cuore di Massine e Nureyev,  i riconoscimenti più antichi  della danza internazionale sono stati regolarmente assegnati. Un segnale di resistenza da parte di tutta l’equipe di Positano premia la Danza, che dà continuità ad un albo d’oro unico.

Il Comune di Positano ha potuto i contare sulla disponibilità della prestigiosa giuria del premio composta dal coordinatore Alfio Agostini (direttore di Ballet2000), Valeria Crippa (Corriere della Sera), Brigitte Lefevre (direttore Festival de Cannes), Nina Loory e Laura Valente (Prix Benois de la dance del Bolshoj MOSCA/Massine ITALIA), Roger Salas (El Pais).

Ogni premiato ha realizzato un messaggio video di ringraziamento e una clip originale: contributi emozionanti e dall’alto valore artistico che come un abbraccio virtuale, da New York a Mosca, da Cuba a Londra,  giungeranno a Positano nella sera del 5 settembre. Sarà possibile infatti  seguire il premio in diretta sui canali social del Premio, dove si alterneranno la diretta live dal sagrato e i contributi video.

Palmarès Positano Premia la Danza 2020  

Anthony Dowell, danseur noble per eccellenza, è senza dubbio il più grande danzatore classico inglese della sua generazione. Direttore artistico del Royal Ballet di Londra, a Dowell va il premio nato dal gemellaggio tra il Prix Benois de la Danse di Mosca e il Premio Massine di Positano.

Il Premio Positano di quest’anno va a

Viengsay Valdés, danzatrice principale e Direttrice del Balletto Nazionale di Cuba. Il Premio che riceve vuol essere anche un omaggio alla Memoria di Alicia Alonso,leggenda del balletto mondiale fino alla sua scomparsa nell’ottobre dello scorso anno, all’età di 99 anni. Alicia Alonso nel 2012 fu anch’essa insignita del Premio, che venne a ritirare di persona.

Alyona Kovalyova. Nata a San Pietroburgo, si è formata all’illustre Accademia Vaganova, ma è passata poi al Balletto del Teatro Bolshoi di Mosca, dove si è imposta in una serie crescente di ruoli culminata in quello da protagonista del Lago dei Cigni dal 2017.

Marcelino Sambé. Portoghese, ha studiato al Conservatorio di Lisbona e alla Royal Ballet School di Londra. Oggi Principal dancerdel Royal Ballet, è divenuto popolare anche per il suo impegno umanitario e sociale.

Oleg Ivenko, giovane danzatore russo di origine ucraina, formatosi in Bielorussia e oggi primo ballerino dell’Opera di Kazan, si è messo in luce in diversi concorsi, ma ha acquisito una notorietà internazionale dal 2018, come interprete del ruolo di Rudolf Nureyev nel film White Crowdi Ralph Fiennes.

Valentine Colasante. Formatasi alla scuola francese, è l’unica italiana attualmente col titolo di étoiledell’Opéra di Parigi dove ha già interpretato i maggiori ruoli del repertorio classico e moderno.

Alejandro Virelles. Cubano, formatosi nel Balletto Nazionale di Cuba, è oggi primo ballerino della compagnia dello Staatsoper di Berlino.

Roger Cuadrado. Spagnolo di Barcellona, solista del Balletto Nazionale Ceco a Praga, si è fatto notare recentemente in un programma di coreografie di repertorio internazionale ma qui ispirate…all’uso della mascherina.

Giacomo Castellana. Nato a Palermo, diplomato alla scuola del Teatro Bolshoi di Mosca, è oggi solista di spicco del Balletto dell’Opera di Roma, dove si è messo in luce nei ruoli principali dei titoli delle scorse stagioni.

Nicoletta Manni Classe 1991, è  oggi una professionista tra le più affermate su scala internazionale. Nata a Galatina,provincia di Lecce, a 12 anni è stata ammessa alla scuola di ballo dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala di Milano, dove diventa prima ballerina a soli 22 anni. 

Timofej Andrijashenko, lettone, classe 1994,  dopo aver iniziato a studiare danza all’età di 9 anni presso l’Accademia Nazionale Statale di Riga. Andrijashenko, vincitore di numerosi concorsi internazionali, nonché Medaglia d’oro al concorso più importante del mondo, quello del Bolshoi di Mosca, è Primo Ballerino al Teatro Alla Scala.

Martina Arduino. Torinese, formatasi all’Accademia del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, è oggi prima ballerina della compagnia milanese, dove è stata notata da pubblico e critica nei ruoli maggiori delle produzioni di questi anni.

Artemiy Belyakov.Diplomato all’Accademia di Balletto del Teatro Bolshoi di Mosca, è entrato a far parte della prestigiosa compagnia dove si è presto imposto come uno dei più brillanti giovani della troupe. Oggi ne è primo ballerino, segnalato come una delle grandi promesse del balletto russo attuale.

Julie Guibert. Francese, ha studiato danza classica ma ha trovato la sua vocazione nella danza moderna e contemporanea, facendo parte tra l’altro del Cullberg Ballet di Stoccolma e del Balletto dell’Opéra di Lione. Si è affermata come interprete di Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Russell Maliphant, Maguy Marin… Da quest’anno è direttrice artistica del Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon.

Il Premio speciale Positano va alla creazione originale Vivianesque di Gennaro Cimmino. Produzione  di KORPER per lo  speciale omaggio del coreografo al drammaturgo Raffaele Viviani  a settant’anni dalla sua scomparsa.  Partendo da un inedito accostamento, mai sperimentato prima sull’opera di Viviani,  in Vivianesque convivono  tutti i linguaggi della scena contemporanea: teatro, musica e soprattutto la danza.

Ha così commentato Michele De Lucia, Sindaco di Positano: « Questa è un’edizione particolare del Premio Massine: abbiamo sentito il dovere di non interrompere la storia del riconoscimento più antico e prestigioso del mondo della danza e di confermare un appuntamento con l’arte e con le emozioni, da vivere con gioia e sicurezza. Il Palmarès dei premiati è di livello altissimo, i loro messaggi  ci hanno  commosso e incoraggiato. Ringrazio la giuria, i grandi artisti che saranno con noi e tutti coloro che hanno lavorato per rendere possibile questo evento prezioso, un abbraccio virtuale del mondo a Positano, con l’augurio di tornare presto a celebrare le  stelle della danza sulla spiaggia grande, come accade da quasi mezzo secolo.»

Per gentile concessione del Museo e Archivio Storico della Fondazione Teatro di San Carlo dal 2017, il simbolo della manifestazione è anche quest’anno un bozzetto di scena di Paolo Ricci realizzato per il balletto Petrushka, riprodotto in carta pergamenata. La pittura del poliedrico artista attivo a Napoli, autore di molti lavori per il teatro, incontrò uno dei titoli più significativi della stagione dei Ballets Russes già coreografato da Massine e di cui Nureyev fu tra gli interpreti ideali.

Breve storia del Premio

Positano richiama i più grandi artisti della danza sin dagli anni ’20 del secolo scorso quando vi si stabilì un collaboratore di Diaghilev, seguito da Lifar, Bakst, Nijinsky, Stravinsky (oltre a personaggi del mondo artistico come Picasso e Cocteau). Léonide Massine, il ballerino/coreografo dei Ballets Russes, s’innamorò del luogo e Diaghilev gli donò le antistanti isole dette Li Galli. Per le sue strade hanno passeggiato personaggi come Serghei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nižinskij e Rudolf Nureyev che fece di Li Galli un’amata residenza. Il 2 agosto 1969 nasce il Premio Positano. Dieci anni dopo la prima edizione, alla morte di Léonide Massine, il premio venne intitolato alla sua memoria. La manifestazione ha premiato negli anni (impossibile citarli tutti) celebri artisti, da Margot Fonteyn a Nureyev, da Maurice Béjart a Ekaterina Maximova, Carla Fracci, Luciana Savignano, Elisabetta Terabust, Alessandra Ferri, Roberto Bolle, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alicia Alonso, Lutz Förster, Vladimir Vassiliev. Nel 2019 il Premio alla Carriera  è andato a Nacho Duato, danzatrice dell’anno Svetlana Zakharova.

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On holiday in Tulum, Mexico

Q&A

When did you start dancing? I was 8 years old. My father was teaching me in the backyard of our house.

Why did you start dancing? We are a big family — 11 children — my parents had only what they knew to offer us at that point and Ballet was that gift.

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Class in the yard

Family

Isaac Hernández

Family 02

Isaac with his father

Isaac with his mother

With his brother Esteban Hernández

With family

Which dancer inspired you most as a child? Nureyev and Baryshnikov.

Which dancer do you most admire? Nureyev. He was so much more than a dancer! He was a visionary.

What’s your favourite role? At first, I did a lot of whining about Nureyev’s Romeo because of its difficulty but then, I fell in love with the role. It is always different, always a challenge but also always so satisfying to perform.

What role have you never played but would like to? Armand with Tamara Rojo in Ashton’s Marguerite and Armand.

What’s your favourite ballet to watch? Recently, and shamefully only recently, I discovered Nicolas Le Riche and Eleonora Abbagnato in Ivan The Terrible. Wonderful!!

Who is your favourite choreographer? Hans Van Manen.

Isaac Hernández the young dancer

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Isaac Hernández the young dancer 03

Isaac Hernández the young dancer 01

Isaac Hernández the young dancer 05

Isaac Hernández the young dancer 02

Who is your favourite writer? Winston Churchill, Garcia Marquez, and Hemingway for The Old Man and the Sea.

Who is your favourite theatre or cinema director? Theatre: Nicholas Hytner and Robert Icke. Cinema: Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro

Who is your favourite actor? The last actor that really made a mark on me at the theatre was Simon Russell Beale in the Lehman Trilogy at the National Theatre.

Who is your favourite singer? Otis Redding, Etta James, Nina, Freddie Mercury… I could have enough to live by with their music.

What is your favourite book? Very hard question. But for recreation purposes, I could always go back to reading One Hundred Years of Solitude but also The Old Man and The Sea, I find this literature filled with a sort of melancholy and feeling that manages to move me every time.

What is your favourite film? Singin’ in the Rain — thanks to my dad.

Which is your favourite city? For me, it is now impossible to say! I have lived in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam and London! I spend time in Paris and Rome often and love Mexico City and Guadalajara. They have all been very special, I don’t think it would be fair to the different places to have to choose one!

Isaac Hernández in Swan Lake © Laurent Liotardo 01

Isaac Hernández in Swan Lake © Laurent Liotardo

Isaac Hernández and English National Ballet in Swan Lake © Laurent Liotardo

What do you like most about yourself? My will and the freedom I’ve allowed myself, to dream freely and without limits.

What do you dislike about yourself? I am always looking ahead, even when I’ve accomplished a goal or a dream.

What was your proudest moment? Realizing things will never be the same for ballet in Mexico and that today, more and more young people can dream of following a dance dream.

When and where were you happiest? Now, today.

What or who is the greatest love of your life? My family.

The Ballet Family

What is your greatest fear? Professionally speaking: to waste an opportunity.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? My herniated lumbar disc!

What do you consider your greatest achievement? To have inspired a nation to see dance and the arts differently and to start considering them as a tool for change.

What is your most treasured possession? Family and health!

What is your greatest extravagance? To fly my parents and spoil them when I guest around. Last time it was at the Rome Opera, next trip is to Argentina for Don Quixote with Teatro Colon.

Isaac Hernández in Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, photo by Laurent Liotardo 01

Isaac Hernández in Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, photo by Laurent Liotardo

Isaac Hernández in Le Corsaire, photo by Laurent Liotardo

Isaac Hernández in La Sylphide, photo by Laurent Liotardo

Isaac Hernández with Tamara Rojo in Don Quixote, photo by Alex López

What do you consider the most overrated virtue? No virtue should be overlooked or overrated.

On what occasion do you lie? When I say the truth. I wonder if anyone reading this will be able to guess what movie is that line from.

If you hadn’t been a dancer what would you have liked to be? I was into martial arts and pro target shooting; I wanted to join the army or compete professionally in martial arts.

What is your most marked characteristic? I suppose my character.

What quality do you most value in a friend? Cleverness.

What quality do you most value in a colleague? Objectiveness and simplicity.

Expresiones, photo by Santiago Barreiro

Espectaculo photo by Santiago Barreiro

Which historical figure do you most admire? The first 27 years of Churchill were remarkable in determination, courage, imagination and drive. Chaplin was extraordinary and incredibly intelligent. But there are too many, too many with incredible and unimaginable flaws and virtues, that it is impossible to pinpoint one.

Which living person do you most admire? My parents. I believe they have done something special with their life and the few means they had. They have dedicated their life to helping people without expecting anything in return. I find that very special, I know very few people with such a genuine interest to improve people’s lives.

What do you most dislike? Lack of imagination.

What talent would you most like to have? I would love to sing well.

What’s your idea of perfect happiness? To learn and discover new things next to someone.

On holiday in Tulum, Mexico

How would you like to die? However it must be.

What is your motto? First, “Why Not?” Then we go from there…

Outside the Mexican Embassy in London

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Winning the Ballet Prize at the Lunas del Auditorio in Mexico

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Attending the Lunas del Auditorio award ceremony in Mexico

Playing golf

Benois de la Danse Prix, photo by M Logvinov, 2018

In Kensington Gardens, London

Speaker for BNP Bank

Isaac the cowboy

Isaac Hernández answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition Q&A When did you start dancing? I was 8 years old. My father was teaching me in the backyard of our house.