

Jeanette Kakareka: “We have to have downtime to recharge and not to burnout”
Jeanette Kakareka, an American-born young ballet dancer of the Bayerisches Staatsballett, previously danced in San Francisco Ballet and the


Victor Caixeta: "People should watch my talent, not my passport"
Young Brazilian dancer Victor Caixeta joined the Mariinsky Ballet as a trainee in 2017 after the graduation from the Staatliche Ballettschul


What is ballet for you?
Four dancers of the Staatsballett Berlin - Marina Kanno, Aeri Kim, Gregor Glocke and Ksenia Ovsyanick - were asked our 5 questions about bal


Mihael Belilov: "My body protects my soul"
This Bulgarian-born dancer is a pleasure to watch during rehearsals and on ballet stage. We decided to get know Mihael better by discussing


Sayaka Wakita: "There is beauty in forgiving"
Her Instagram page is a collection of flossy photographs spiced up with witty captions that reveal her intelligence and sincerity. She see


Yuria Isaka: "Ballet is my life and my passion"
18-year-old Yuria Isaka, a graduate of the Princess Grace Academy, joined the Staatsballett Berlin this season. Being the company’s youngest


Premiere of Petipa-Ratmansky's "La Bayadère"
Staatsballett Berlin premiered "La Bayadère" created by Marius Petipa and reconstructed by Alexei Ratmansky with newly developed costumes an


Bianca Scacciati: "A real Italian voice"
During the "golden" Toscanini era, one of the most celebrated periods for Italian opera in the 20th century, there were three primadonnas wh


Yolanda Correa: "Siegfried is dreamy, naive, pure-hearted"
Cuban-born prima ballerina of the Staatsballet Berlin debuted on stage of the Deutsche Oper this season as Odette-Odile in Patrice Bart's


"The story of our flowers": Lida Sherafatmand's art
It was when I was writing my MA dissertation about Iranian painters for peace that I first came across Lida’s works. As I contacted her we s

