For almost four centuries Hamlet stood on stages around the world and asked, "To be, or not to be?" — and never got an answer. Not until Shakespeare was staged in Japan.

At the beginning of the 20th century, London knew Russian exotic ballet well, but did not yet fully know the Russian ballet school. There is a difference between these two things. Oriental costume, characteristic dance and spectacular divertissement could charm the audience in one evening. The academic system required a different classification: daily work, precision, training and an artist who is able to demonstrate this system with his own body.

In old photographs, Maude Fealy is easy to mistake for a heroine created by the era itself: waves of light-coloured hair, a delicate profile, enormous eyes, and a gaze that seems to linger on the viewer a little longer than it should, with a dreamy, almost languid quality. In 1903, her photograph won a prize in an international beauty contest organised by the Parisian publication Figaro Illustré. Yet Fealy’s story is interesting for reasons that go far beyond the fact that he

Art historian and art dealer Olga Tinitskaya explains how to distinguish an authentic work of art from a forgery, why an unassuming object can be worth a fortune, and where to look for rare antiques today. In this interview, she takes us behind the scenes of million-euro auction deals, shares the secrets of art attribution, discusses her work with collectors and her first steps in the art market, and reveals why every valuable object holds not only a piece of art history but

We are used to thinking of opera as an art form of kings, tragic lovers, and mythological heroes. But what if I told you that some of the darkest crimes in history have also found their way onto the operatic stage? In this series, I’ve brought together several operas inspired by real people, murders, and stories that remain impossible to forget.

Burlesque differs greatly from anything else. There is no fourth wall in burlesque – it simply cannot exist. It’s an exchange of visions of beauty and an exchange of emotions, which is why, for example, it doesn’t work well on very large stages. People come for that live connection and for nostalgia.

It is striking how fates and meanings echo across time. After his legendary defection from the USSR in 1961, Rudolf Nureyev was declared a traitor to the Motherland and sentenced in absentia to imprisonment. And now, decades later, in modern Russia, a ballet about him – a man who became a symbol of freedom in the art world - is stigmatized and pushed aside.

The choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui returned to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona with the duo of choreographies "Faun/Noetic" , both performed by the Grand Ballet de Genéve. In the gaze of the Belgian choreographer and dancer, the symbiosis between cultures and movements is almost always accompanied by a philosophical line, resulting in a communicative dance that transcends diversity of bodies, perceptions, and contexts. Through an artistic ideology formed by collec