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Roberto Bolle plays Caravaggio: ballet about Lombard painter debuts in Italy

Mauro Bigonzetti's ballet Caravaggio, starring étoile Roberto Bolle, promoter of the project and star of the show precisely as Caravaggio, lands in Italy. The show, which debuted in 2008 with the Staatsballett Berlin, will be staged at the Tea...
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In Venice, Bintou Dembélé's dance as an evolutionary ritual of the body

Palazzo Grassi in Venice presents September 27 and 28, 2024 En mode marron, the new performance by choreographer and dancer Bintou Dembélé (Brétigny-sur-Orge, 1975). The double date marks Dembélé's return to dance w...
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Jacopo Tissi is a principal dancer with the Dutch National Ballet

Jacopo Tissi is the new principal dancer of the Dutch National Ballet, the official Dutch ballet company. The young dancer from Pavia, born in Landriano in 1995, had become étoile of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, the first Italian to do so, i...
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Mittelfest, Mitteleuropean festival of theater, music and dance, returns to Cividale del Friuli

From July 21-30, 2023, the multidisciplinary (theater, music and dance) and international festival Mittelfest returns to Cividale del Friuli to promote live performance from Mitteleuropean countries in Italy. The festival, organized by theMittelfest ...
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Marche National Gallery opens up to dance and gesture with Virgilio Sieni's project

On July 15, 16 and 17, 2022, the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino presents Il silenzio vicino, a project by the Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni in collaboration with Galleria Nazionale delle Ma...
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Uffizi dialogues with dance for Florence Dance Performing Arts Festival

On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the Florence Dance Performing Arts Festival presents, in collaboration with the Uffizi Galleries, the Meet the Dance Artists initiative in the Sala della Niobe. OnSunday, June 30, 2019, at 11 a.m., Gali Kalef...
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Villa Bardini hosts first Italian exhibition dedicated to revolutionary dancer Isadora Duncan

At Villa Bardini and Museo Stefano Bardini in Florence, the exhibition A passi di danza is on view until September 22, 2019. Isadora Duncan and the figurative arts in Italy between the 19th century and the avant-garde, the first Italian exhibition de...
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An exhibition in Salzburg on the figure of the exile artist: it's Resonanz von Exil

Through October 28, 2018, the exhibition "Resonanz von Exil" is running at the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg. This exhibition is a look at the figure of the artist-exile, or those artists who, instead of drawing inspiration from aesthetics or cultur...
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