Dancing Times Magazine February 2022 Edizione posteriore

Although there were some performances cancelled in the UK – and abroad – at the end of last year and at the beginning of 2022, it now looks as if things are slowly getting back to normal for many working in the field of dance. New productions, such as English National Ballet’s staging of Raymonda (see page 43), have finally made it to the stage, and the same can be said for the Ballet of La Scala, Milan, which launched a new production of La Bayadère (see page 50) after various delays and cancellations due to the Omicron variant.
One long-standing dance institution, MOVE IT, will be back at ExCeL London again next month, and in this issue you can find out what it has planned to entice us back into the exhibition hall. We also hear from choreographers Ben Duke and Mark Bruce, both of whom are about to launch spring tours, and we talk to The Royal Ballet’s Marcelino Sambé about his upcoming appearances in Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake. On a sad note, however, all at Dancing Times were shocked and saddened to learn, early in the New Year, of the death of our photographer, Kristyna Kashvili, and we pay a small tribute to her on page 77.