Viviana Durante
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Viviana Durante is an Italian
-born English
prima ballerina who is widely acknowledged to be one of the finest and most dramatic ballerinas of her time. She was formerly a Principal Dancer of The Royal Ballet. She has performed internationally as a Guest Principal, since 2003 predominantly in Japan
. As of 2010 she founded her own ballet company, called Viviana Durante Company.
and started ballet at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
at eight years old. Spotted by ballerina Galina Samsova
, at age 10 she joined the Lower School of the Royal Ballet School
at White Lodge in Richmond Park, London. A year later she was the subject of a Thames Television
documentary entitled I really want to dance. In 1983 she graduated to the Upper School, but within a year, aged 17, she was invited to join the Royal Ballet Company. At 19 she was promoted to Soloist and at 21 she became Principal Dancer.
(Manon
, Romeo and Juliet, Mayerling
, Different Drummer, My Brother, My Sisters, Requiem, Elite Syncopations, Gloria, The Prince of the Pagodas
and Anastasia, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award), Sir Frederick Ashton
(Cinderella
, La Fille mal gardée
, Rhapsody
, Ondine, A Month in the Country
, A Midsummer Night's Dream
, Symphonic Variations, Les Patineurs
, Birthday Offering, Scènes de ballet
, Thaïs pas de deux) and from the classical repertory (Swan Lake
, The Nutcracker
, Giselle
, The Sleeping Beauty, La Bayadere
, Don Quixote
, Les Biches
, Raymonda
, Diana and Actaeon
, Sylvia pas de deux).
She created roles in MacMillan's The Judas Tree and Winter Dreams
(based on Anton Chekhov
’s Three Sisters
), in Wayne McGregor
's Fleur de Peux, in Ashley Page's Pursuit
, Piano
, Bloodlines, ...now languorous, now wild... and Cheating, Lying, Stealing, in Will Tuckett's Present Histories, in David Bintley
's Tombeaux and in Amedeo Amodio
's Cabiria
.
Among other ballets, she has also appeared in Bintley's Cyrano de Bergerac
, in George Balanchine
's Apollo
, Ballet Imperial
, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Who Cares?
and Symphony in C
, in Rudolf Nureyev
's Laurentia
, in Tetley
's La Ronde, in Uwe Scholz's The Red and the Black, in Roland Petit
's Coppelia
, Carmen
and Duke Ellington Ballet and in André Prokovsky
's Anna Karenina
.
In 1992 Durante and her fellow principal Darcey Bussell
were the subjects of a South Bank Show documentary entitled Two Ballerinas at the Royal Ballet (UK: Two Royal Ballet Dancers) and, the following year, they were both invited by the New York City Ballet
for the Balanchine Celebration at the New York State Theatre.
In 1995 she appeared in the title role of a ninety-minute version of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty, which was telecast on Great Performances
by PBS during the Christmas season.
In 1998 Durante made a successful return to Rome, on the stage of the Teatro dell'Opera, as a Guest Artist in Prokovsky's production of the Tchaikovsky ballet.
In 1999 a disagreement between Durante and the Royal Ballet, beginning when she was reportedly dropped by a fellow dancer, blew up into a national media storm. After what the media called a 'dazzling 12-year career' as one of the British ballet's major stars, Durante left the company soon after.
as a Principal Dancer for the 1999 spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House
, New York City
. She has subsequently appeared as a Principal Guest Artist with major international ballet companies including La Scala Milan, Tokyo Ballet, Dresden SemperOper Ballet and, since 2003, K-Ballet
, founded by fellow Royal Ballet alumnus Tetsuya Kumakawa.
Durante has appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan
and Harpers and Queen magazines and has been the subject of profiles in Vogue
, Elle and many other publications. She has modelled for photographic shoots for Karl Lagerfeld
and for catwalk shows by Maison Gattinoni. She has also appeared in several plays and films.
She is a patron of The Hammond School
. In 2010 she was a coach and in 2011 a juror of the Prix de Lausanne
.
and Japan
now lives in London.
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
-born English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
prima ballerina who is widely acknowledged to be one of the finest and most dramatic ballerinas of her time. She was formerly a Principal Dancer of The Royal Ballet. She has performed internationally as a Guest Principal, since 2003 predominantly in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. As of 2010 she founded her own ballet company, called Viviana Durante Company.
Early career
Durante was born in RomeRome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
and started ballet at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma is an opera house in Rome, Italy. Originally opened in November 1880 as the 2,212 seat Costanzi Theatre, it has undergone several changes of name as well modifications and improvements...
at eight years old. Spotted by ballerina Galina Samsova
Galina Samsova
Galina Samsova is a retired Russian ballerina. She studied at the Kiev Ballet School and in 1956 graduated into the Kiev Ballet where she became a soloist. In 1960 she married the Canadian Alexander Ursuliak and moved to Canada where she joined the National Ballet of Canada in 1961...
, at age 10 she joined the Lower School of the Royal Ballet School
Royal Ballet School
The Royal Ballet School is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the Royal Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Royal Opera House in London...
at White Lodge in Richmond Park, London. A year later she was the subject of a Thames Television
Thames Television
Thames Television was a licensee of the British ITV television network, covering London and parts of the surrounding counties on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until 31 December 1992....
documentary entitled I really want to dance. In 1983 she graduated to the Upper School, but within a year, aged 17, she was invited to join the Royal Ballet Company. At 19 she was promoted to Soloist and at 21 she became Principal Dancer.
Royal Ballet Company
At the Royal Ballet Durante danced all the main roles in ballets by Sir Kenneth MacMillanKenneth MacMillan
Sir Kenneth MacMillan was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. He was artistic director of the Royal Ballet in London between 1970 and 1977.-Early years:...
(Manon
Manon
Manon is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost...
, Romeo and Juliet, Mayerling
Mayerling
Mayerling is a small village in Lower Austria belonging to the municipality of Alland in the district of Baden. It is situated on the Schwechat River, in the Wienerwald , 15 miles southwest of Vienna...
, Different Drummer, My Brother, My Sisters, Requiem, Elite Syncopations, Gloria, The Prince of the Pagodas
The Prince of the Pagodas
The Prince of the Pagodas is a ballet created for The Royal Ballet in 1957, by choreographer John Cranko, with music commissioned from Benjamin Britten. The ballet was later revived in a new production by Kenneth MacMillan in 1989, achieving widespread acclaim for Darcey Bussell's premiere in a...
and Anastasia, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award), Sir Frederick Ashton
Frederick Ashton
Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton OM, CH, CBE was a leading international dancer and choreographer. He is most noted as the founder choreographer of The Royal Ballet in London, but also worked as a director and choreographer of opera, film and theatre revues.-Early life:Ashton was born at...
(Cinderella
Cinderella
"Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...
, La Fille mal gardée
La Fille Mal Gardée
La Fille mal gardée is a comic ballet presented in two acts, inspired by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's 1789 painting, La réprimande/Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère...
, Rhapsody
Rhapsody
Rhapsody may refer to:* Rhapsody , an enthusiastic instrumental composition of indefinite form* A work of epic poetry, or part of one, that is suitable for recitation at one time...
, Ondine, A Month in the Country
A Month in the Country (ballet)
A Month in the Country is a narrative ballet created in 1976 with choreography by Frederick Ashton, to the music of Frédéric Chopin arranged by John Lanchbery...
, A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for Shakespeare's play of the same name. In addition to the incidental music, Balanchine incorporated other Mendelssohn works into the ballet including Overtures to Athalie, Son...
, Symphonic Variations, Les Patineurs
Les Patineurs (ballet)
Les patineurs is a ballet created in 1937 with choreography by Frederick Ashton, to the music of Giacomo Meyerbeer arranged by Constant Lambert, for the Vic-Wells company, with designs by William Chappell.-Performance history:...
, Birthday Offering, Scènes de ballet
Scènes de Ballet
- Ballets to the preceding music :* Scènes de ballet , 1944 ballet by Anton Dolin* Scènes de ballet , 1947–1948 ballet by Frederick Ashton* Scènes de ballet , 1972 ballet by John Taras...
, Thaïs pas de deux) and from the classical repertory (Swan Lake
Swan Lake
Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...
, The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
, Giselle
Giselle
Giselle is a ballet in two acts with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe Adam, and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The librettist took his inspiration from a poem by Heinrich Heine...
, The Sleeping Beauty, La Bayadere
La Bayadère
La Bayadère is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by French choreographer Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. La Bayadère was first performed by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, on...
, Don Quixote
Don Quixote (ballet)
Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and was first presented by the Ballet of the...
, Les Biches
Les Biches
Les biches is a ballet by Francis Poulenc, premiered by the Ballets Russes in 1924. The composer, who was at the time relatively unknown, was asked by Serge Diaghilev to write a piece based on Glazunov's Les Sylphides, written seventeen years earlier...
, Raymonda
Raymonda
Raymonda is a ballet in three acts, four scenes with an apotheosis, choreographed by Marius Petipa, with music by Alexander Glazunov, his opus 57. First presented by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre on in St. Petersburg, Russia...
, Diana and Actaeon
Diana and Actaeon
The Greek myth of Diana and Actaeon can be found within Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The tale recounts the unfortunate fate of a young hunter named Actaeon, who was the grandson of Cadmus, and his encounter with chaste Diana, goddess of the hunt. The latter is nude and enjoying a bath in a spring with...
, Sylvia pas de deux).
She created roles in MacMillan's The Judas Tree and Winter Dreams
Winter Dreams
"Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that first appeared in Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922, and was collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926. It is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest stories and is frequently anthologized...
(based on Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
’s Three Sisters
Three Sisters (play)
Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters, but most probably by the three Zimmermann sisters in Perm...
), in Wayne McGregor
Wayne McGregor
Wayne McGregor CBE is a British choreographer of contemporary modern dance. His work is highly distinctive in its vocabulary of movement, for its integration of dance with film and visual art, and for his active interest and incorporation of computer technology and biological science...
's Fleur de Peux, in Ashley Page's Pursuit
Pursuit
Pursuit may refer to:In aircraft:*Rans S-11 Pursuit, lifting body style light aircraft designIn cars:*Pontiac G5, formerly called Pontiac PursuitIn film and television:*Pursuit , a 1950s anthology...
, Piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, Bloodlines, ...now languorous, now wild... and Cheating, Lying, Stealing, in Will Tuckett's Present Histories, in David Bintley
David Bintley
David Bintley, CBE, is a former English ballet dancer, the current artistic director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet and co-artistic director of the New National Theatre Tokyo ballet company.- About :...
's Tombeaux and in Amedeo Amodio
Amedeo Amodio
-Early career:Born in Milan in 1940, Amodio trained at the ballet school of the Teatro alla Scala, whose ranks he joined immediately. While there, he performed in productions by Léonide Massine , George Balanchine , and Petit -Early career:Born in Milan in 1940, Amodio trained at the ballet school...
's Cabiria
Cabiria
Cabiria is a silent movie from the early years of Italy's movie industry, directed by Giovanni Pastrone . The movie is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War . It follows a melodramatic main plot about an abducted little girl, Cabiria, and features...
.
Among other ballets, she has also appeared in Bintley's Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duelist. He is now best remembered for the works of fiction which have been woven, often very loosely, around his life story, most notably the 1897 play by Edmond Rostand...
, in George Balanchine
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
's Apollo
Apollo (ballet)
Apollo is a ballet in two tableaux composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed by balletmaster George Balanchine in 1928, the composer contributing the libretto...
, Ballet Imperial
Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 (ballet)
Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine on his earlier company, American Ballet Caravan to eponymous music from 1879–80. The premiere took place on May 29, 1941, at Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro,...
, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Who Cares?
Who Cares? (ballet)
Who Cares? is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to the songs of George Gershwin in an orchestration by Hershy Kay...
and Symphony in C
Symphony in C
Symphony in C may refer to:* a number of symphonies written in the key of C major** symphonies referred to by their key exclusively:*** Symphony in C major - Richard Wagner's Symphony in C...
, in Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Russian dancer, considered one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of the 20th century. Nureyev's artistic skills explored expressive areas of the dance, providing a new role to the male ballet dancer who once served only as support to the women.In 1961 he...
's Laurentia
Laurentia
Laurentia is a large area of continental craton, which forms the ancient geological core of the North American continent...
, in Tetley
Glen Tetley
Glen Tetley was an American ballet and modern dancer as well as a choreographer who mixed ballet and modern dance to create a new way of looking at dance, and is best known for his piece Pierrot Lunaire.-Biography:Glenford Andrew Tetley, Jr. was born on February 3, 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio...
's La Ronde, in Uwe Scholz's The Red and the Black, in Roland Petit
Roland Petit
Roland Petit was a French choreographer and dancer born in Villemomble, near Paris, France. He trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.-Biography:...
's Coppelia
Coppélia
Coppélia is a sentimental comic ballet with original choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon to a ballet libretto by Saint-Léon and Charles Nuitter and music by Léo Delibes. It was based upon two macabre stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Der Sandmann , and Die Puppe...
, Carmen
Carmen
Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...
and Duke Ellington Ballet and in André Prokovsky
André Prokovsky
André Prokovsky was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet from 1963 to 1967 and roles in George Balanchine’s 1965 Pas de Deux and Divertissement and 1966 Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet with Melissa Hayden his partner in both.Born of Russian parents Prokovsky made his stage debut in 1954 with the...
's Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger...
.
In 1992 Durante and her fellow principal Darcey Bussell
Darcey Bussell
Darcey Andrea Bussell CBE is a retired English ballerina. Trained at the Arts Educational School and the Royal Ballet School, she was later employed by the Royal Ballet, where she was promoted to the rank of Principal Dancer and would become recognised as one of the greatest English ballerinas of...
were the subjects of a South Bank Show documentary entitled Two Ballerinas at the Royal Ballet (UK: Two Royal Ballet Dancers) and, the following year, they were both invited by the New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
for the Balanchine Celebration at the New York State Theatre.
In 1995 she appeared in the title role of a ninety-minute version of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty, which was telecast on Great Performances
Great Performances
Great Performances, a television series devoted to the performing arts, has been telecast on Public Broadcasting Service public television since 1972...
by PBS during the Christmas season.
In 1998 Durante made a successful return to Rome, on the stage of the Teatro dell'Opera, as a Guest Artist in Prokovsky's production of the Tchaikovsky ballet.
In 1999 a disagreement between Durante and the Royal Ballet, beginning when she was reportedly dropped by a fellow dancer, blew up into a national media storm. After what the media called a 'dazzling 12-year career' as one of the British ballet's major stars, Durante left the company soon after.
Subsequent career
After leaving the Royal Ballet, Durante joined American Ballet TheatreAmerican Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre , based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century. It continues as a leading dance company in the world today...
as a Principal Dancer for the 1999 spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House
Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center)
The Metropolitan Opera House is an opera house located on Broadway at Lincoln Square in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the theater opened in 1966. It replaced the former Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th St...
, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. She has subsequently appeared as a Principal Guest Artist with major international ballet companies including La Scala Milan, Tokyo Ballet, Dresden SemperOper Ballet and, since 2003, K-Ballet
K-ballet
K-ballet is a Japanese ballet company. The company started in 1999 and has since held approximately 50 annual performances. K-Ballet's activity was first recognised internationally in July 2004, when the ballet group was invited to New York's Metropolitan Opera House with The Royal Ballet, one of...
, founded by fellow Royal Ballet alumnus Tetsuya Kumakawa.
Durante has appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...
and Harpers and Queen magazines and has been the subject of profiles in Vogue
Vogue (British magazine)
The British edition of Vogue is a fashion magazine that has been published since 1916.When British Vogue was launched, it was the first overseas edition of an existing fashion magazine. Under the magazine's first editor, Elspeth Champcommunal, the magazine was essentially the same as the American...
, Elle and many other publications. She has modelled for photographic shoots for Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld is a German fashion designer, artist and photographer based in Paris. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative director for the fashion house Chanel...
and for catwalk shows by Maison Gattinoni. She has also appeared in several plays and films.
She is a patron of The Hammond School
The Hammond School
The Hammond School, is a specialist co-educational performing arts school based in Chester in the United Kingdom.-Overview:Irene Hammond founded the Hammond School of Dancing in 1917, when she took over an established dance school in Chester. She expanded the school to include a full programme of...
. In 2010 she was a coach and in 2011 a juror of the Prix de Lausanne
Prix de Lausanne
The Prix de Lausanne is an International dance competition held annually in Lausanne, Switzerland. The competition is for young dancers seeking to pursue a professional career in classical ballet, and many former prize winners of the competition are now leading stars with major ballet companies...
.
Critical opinion
Critics have focussed on Durante's combination of outstanding technical skill, striking acting ability and mercurial blend of Latin passion and British coolness. Her Manon (with Russian dancer Irek Mukhamedov as Des Grieux, in particular), along with several others of her roles, have been labelled the definitive interpretations of her generation, and she has been called 'the most dramatic of dancers.' On her return to the London stage in 2008, critics called her a 'legendary communicator' who 'showed she is still a smouldering magnet of a performer on stage.'Personal life
Durante is married to the British author and journalist Nigel Cliff and after a number of years living in ItalyItaly
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
now lives in London.
Awards and honors (selected)
- Awarded Dancer of the Year in the UK, Japan, Italy, ChileChileChile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
. - 1984 Prix de Lausanne
- 1989 Time Out Award
- 1989 Evening StandardEvening StandardThe Evening Standard, now styled the London Evening Standard, is a free local daily newspaper, published Monday–Friday in tabloid format in London. It is the dominant regional evening paper for London and the surrounding area, with coverage of national and international news and City of London...
Award - 1991 Premio Positano
- 1997 Premio Internazionale "Gino Tani" per le Arti dello Spettacolo, Rome
- 1997 Laurence Olivier Award – nominated for Anastasia
- 2002 Premio Positano
- 2003 Premio Vignale danza
- 2006 Premio Bucchi
- 2007 Premio Apulia
Theatre
- 2009 Lullaby Burn – monologue with dance written by Simon StephensSimon StephensSimon Stephens is an English playwright.Hailing originally from Stockport, Greater Manchester, he is now an increasingly significant voice in English theatre. His plays are often humane explorations of family life...
, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London - 2008 Fram – new play by Tony HarrisonTony HarrisonTony Harrison is an English poet and playwright. He is noted for controversial works such as the poem V and Fram, as well as his versions of ancient Greek tragedies, including the Oresteia and Hecuba...
, Royal National TheatreRoyal National TheatreThe Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
, London - 2007 Escaping Hamlet – play at Edinburgh FestivalEdinburgh FestivalThe Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for many arts and cultural festivals that take place in Edinburgh, Scotland each summer, mostly in August...
directed by Gianpiero Borgia
Films
- 1990 Die FledermausDie FledermausDie Fledermaus is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée.- Literary sources :...
(Royal Opera HouseRoyal Opera HouseThe Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The large building is often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", after a previous use of the site of the opera house's original construction in 1732. It is the home of The Royal Opera, The...
) - 1991 Winter DreamsWinter Dreams"Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that first appeared in Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922, and was collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926. It is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest stories and is frequently anthologized...
(Royal Ballet) - 1993 George BalanchineGeorge BalanchineGeorge Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
Celebration (New York City BalletNew York City BalletNew York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
) - 1994 The Sleeping Beauty (Royal Ballet)
- 1994 MayerlingMayerlingMayerling is a small village in Lower Austria belonging to the municipality of Alland in the district of Baden. It is situated on the Schwechat River, in the Wienerwald , 15 miles southwest of Vienna...
(Royal Ballet) - 2000 CarmenCarmenCarmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...
(K-BalletK-balletK-ballet is a Japanese ballet company. The company started in 1999 and has since held approximately 50 annual performances. K-Ballet's activity was first recognised internationally in July 2004, when the ballet group was invited to New York's Metropolitan Opera House with The Royal Ballet, one of...
) - 2000 Royal Opera House Opening Celebration
- 2002 GiselleGiselleGiselle is a ballet in two acts with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe Adam, and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The librettist took his inspiration from a poem by Heinrich Heine...
(K-Ballet) - 2002 Ogni 27 Agosto (film directed by Antonio SerranoAntonio SerranoJosé Antonio Serrano Argüelles is a Mexican film director, actor, playwright and screenwriter.He graduated with a degree in Communications from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He also attended the Royal Weber Academy of Dramatic Art in England and the Odin Teatre of Denmark...
) - 2003 Swan LakeSwan LakeSwan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...
(K-Ballet) - 2003 The Sleeping Beauty (K-Ballet)