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A Late Summer’s Dream in Photos Normally BALLET2000 presents a photographic panorama of the dance world, trimming down its text to minimum, only once a year in the special issue that precedes the first of its annual six bi-monthly issues. Exceptionally, however, here is a second photo issue for 2019 which we hope our readers will appreciate. This summer has been quite rich in dance shows at festivals all over Europe (especially in Italy and France which are naturally festival-oriented countries). Our critics will be reviewing some of the particularly successful and interesting novelties and creations in BALLET2000’s next issue. Meanwhile, in the present issue we have selected a good many “end-of-summer” events, presenting each one with a beautiful photo accompanied by a short informative text or commentary. “Beautiful” doesn’t merely mean that they are of good photographic quality; certainly a number of these shots, by some of the world’s best dance photographers, are pleasing to the eye thanks to the aesthetic quality of the dance moment that they have been able to capture and to the beauty of the dancing that has been immortalised in an instant that contains the movement itself. But the most successful of these images are beautiful also because their instantaneous vision triggers an intuition of an artistic nature which is that of choreographic creation. Focusing on events of the outgoing summer and on the follow-up they’ll get during the incoming autumn season, what have we picked out for you?