The sound of pointe shoes

Alina Nanu Czech National Ballet

Semyon Chudin, Vadim Muntagirov and Denis Cherevychko

Ballet is hard.

The incomparable Irina Kolpakova (who turns 85 in May - let that sink in for a second), one of Russia’s greatest ballerinas and one of Agrippina Vaganova’s last students, in rehearsal at ABT. 

Vladimir Malakhov and Diana Vishneva rehearsing and performing “Giselle”. 

Vladimir and Diana are each others favourite partners. The two met by chance in 1995, during an international gala in Toronto. Malakhov was supposed to dance  “Le Spectre de la rose”, but he didn’t have a partner. The then-seventeen year old Diana was offered a chance to be partnered by him. They have been inseparable ever since.

Malakhov on Diana: “Diana, for me, is a singular story. There isn’t and will never be another ballerina like her. She has been my partner for the duration of her entire career.”

Artists of the Australian Ballet rehearse the Garland dance in David McAllistar’s new “The Sleeping Beauty

Vaganova Ballet Academy is pleased to announce the start of registration for official and authorized Master classes that have been scheduled to take place during the summer break – 2018 in Italy, in Spain and in Japan.

ITALY July 3 – 13, 2018

Vaganova Academy International Summer Course 2018 in La Spezia, Italy

Accademia La Maison de la Danse (LMD) Via Fontevivo 21/N - 19125 La Spezia – ITALY

Phone: +39349 465 63 92 (Emmanuelle Ricco, Director) Phone: +4179 249 37 64 (Lucia Longhi, Coordinator)

[email protected] [email protected] www.lamaisondeladanse.it

Registrations close on May 31, 2018

SPAIN  July 2 – 22, 2018

Russian Masters Ballet Camp

Asociación Nacional de Ballet Profesional C/Santa Gema, 18, 30840 Alhama de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

Phone: + 34 609816395 President Juan Antonio Cazorla García [email protected] www.russianmastersballet.com

JAPAN

Master class in Nara, Master class in Osaka, Master class in Tokyo (information upon request: [email protected])