DANZA&DANZA International Magazine

What attracts today's authors to the great ballet repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries? What relationship do they have with history? These reflections were our starting point when putting together this issue in which we address the concept of repertoire from different points of view. With global star Natalia Osipova; with the “radical” director of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company Ioannis
Mandafounis, whose vision dictates that he does not “teach his dancers any steps”; with Mauro Bigonzetti, author of a new contemporary Nutcracker that promises not to betray either the imagination of children or tradition, and with an in-depth look
at one of the rare war-themed titles in the repertoire handed down to posterity, Kurt Jooss’ "The Green Table", which the Birmingham Royal Ballet is restaging in the coming months.
In this issue, we look ahead to tomorrow with the most interesting events of the coming months and review the main debuts from the Lyon Biennale, the Torinodanza Festival (S-E-D and Rambert), Romaeuropa (‘Afanador’, DFDC, ‘Borda’), Oriente Occidente (‘Ultimo Helecho’, ‘Monumentum 0.10’), and Gauthier Dance in ‘Turning of bones’ and Compagnia Virgilio Sieni in ‘Sulla leggerezza’, Aterballetto in Caracalla, English National Ballet in "R:evolution", Paris Opera Ballet in "Racines", Marco Berrettini's "Jiddu". Enjoy!