

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


"Pelléas et Mélisande" at the Komische Oper Berlin
"Pelléas et Mélisande", the only completed opera by Claude Debussy, is considered to be an "opera without singing", though, to my ear, there


Georgeta Varvarici: "Talent or hard work is not always the thing"
Having exquisite body lines, beautiful arched feet and long limbs, Georgeta Varvarici, a Moldavian born ballet dancer, also gifted with h


Patricia Zhou: "The feeling of dancing is like being taken to another world"
The former dancer of the Staatsballet Berlin, Patricia Zhou, tells us about her life in Los Angeles, the features of Russian ballet, her You


Marina Kanno: "I don’t think that everybody should aim to be a star"
Born in Japan and graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy, today Marina Kanno is a demi-soloist of the Staatsballett Berlin. We had a tal

