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Like many great artists, from Verdi to Mozart, never considered by educational institutions with a capital “i”, Carla Fracci also ran the risk of not being admitted to  La Scala Ballet School. Ballerina Carla Fracci (@padfootbry, twitter) Then, as the...

La Scala, like all Italian theaters in this period was strewn with notices on the seats where a spectator cannot sit; only family members can sit next to each other. No one ever enters without having their temperature taken by...

The Peeping Tom group blends dance, acrobatics, acting and singing, and nails all these disciplines in a hyper-realistic aesthetic, stuck into real stage sets, but unsettled or distorted by a perceptive and human instability, which contradicts every rational logic of...

TERRA FIRMA is an exploration of life as a journey; a journey not conceived simply as displacement in space and time but, also as a symbolic sense of desire of knowledge and research of oneself. The inspiration for this piece...

Life is by no means easy as a dancer in New York City, but there is a constant fire in Irene's belly that keeps her on her feet. While it is a difficult dream to become a dancer, Irene says...

Pina Bausch © Piero Tauro It would be difficult to imagine what the theater of dance, or theater tout court, of the last forty years would have been without the paradigmatic experience and creativity of Pina (Philippine) Bausch. Born in...

The poet Montale loved music and dance. He first saw Carla Fracci perform on March 5th, 1955, in her performance of Farewell Steps (Passo d’addio) for La Scala’s Ballet School. His admiration continued from the moment Fracci entered into the...

An international dance and arts festival whose main theme will be cross-cultural mingling and dialogue. The IDACO: Italian Dance Connection will engage more than twenty dance companies, artists and directors for four days of screenings and dance choreographies not to...

Caterina Rago and a group of eight women presented their most recent work at New York Live Arts. In their show they share their findings on self-awareness. Their playful portrayal captures the audience by exploring challenging emotions in everyday life.