DANZA&DANZA International Magazine May/June 2018 Edizione posteriore

In this issue, we hear from three brilliant women: Alena Kovaleva, the new twenty-year-old star of the Bolshoi Ballet, who tells us about her thriving career and aspirations for the future; Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, whose poetics focuses on the fundamental questions of existence, in Italy this May with her piece Betroffenheit; and Cynthia Harvey, former Principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, now Artistic Director of the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in New York. She talks to us about her idea of education, and the school’s legacy.
We review Akram Khan’s new piece Xenos from Athens, the Aszure Barton world premiere at La Scala Theatre in Milan, and the triple bill by Inger-Forsythe-Kyli.n at the Rome Opera Ballet. We also take a look at the celebrations in Saint Petersburg and Moscow marking the bicentenary of Marius Petipa; the Israeli Vertigo Dance Company’s European debut in Belgrade; and “Show” by Hofesh Shechter, seen in Italy with the younger company Shechter II.
The May/June issue’s in-depth feature investigates the forgotten Russian avant garde of the ‘20s and ‘30s and its relationship with American modern dance and the European research of Rudolf von Laban. You’ll also find shopping tips and dance news from Italy and the world.