Salvo Nicolosi at the Hamlyn school in Florence, Italy. Photo by Morta Grigaliunaite

Il codice segreto del balletto: Sceneggiatura di Ballet’s Secret Code, Italian transcript by Katharine Kanter, proof-read by Guido Donati

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Trascrizione italiana di Katharine Kanter, correzione di bozze di Guido Donati Link al documentario su YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZGT4g7FHSvA?si=DxcWJ8w7DwiXP3Ej (Voce fuori campo registrata il 17 dicembre 2017 ai British Grove Studios, Londra) 0:03 Questo film è diretto da Julie Cronshaw, insegnante di danza classica ed ex ballerina professionista che si è diplomata al corso di formazione per…

Artists sketching in the Sculpture hall at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille, France

The Eight Directions of the Body in the Cecchetti Method

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The consequences of false positions are fatal. Simplicity in any style demands the greatest perfection.   Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810), Lettres sur la danse et les ballets     What are Cecchetti’s Eight Directions of the Body? And why should they be studied?   First, a “declaration of interest”. The author is Cecchetti-trained and teaches Cecchetti…

Powerpoint image, presentation by Julie Cronshaw,  Blue Lecture Series for CICB, Feb 2022

The Cecchetti Society in England, 1922-2022 A Centenary Review

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The Ballets Russes arrive in London, 1918 Towards the end of the Great War in 1918, a group of exhausted, near-starving and war-weary dancers of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes arrived in London for a series of performances at the Coliseum. How fortunate would this turn out to be for English dancers and audiences over the next…