James Ivory — one half of the legendary production company Merchant Ivory Productions, which gave us The Remains of the Day, Howards' End, and A Room with a View — visited TIFF days after his historic Oscar win for Best Adapted Screenplay (Call Me by Your Name). Ivory is now the oldest Academy Award

Merchant and Ivory’s A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), Eric Rohmer’s Pauline at the Beach (1983) and The Green Ray (1986) Jean Renoir’s A Day in the Country, Maurice Pialat’s A Nos Amours and Loulou, As in many of these films, in Call Me By Your Name “nature is a symbol of freedom” and “the

In this fifteen installment of "Male Ballet Dancers" we feature the outstanding Vaganova Ballet Academy and their male sutendts progress. .With a history dating back more than four hundred years, ballet has progressed from Renaissance court pageantry to royal entertainment to full-fledged performi

Roberto Bolle is an Italian ballet dancer. He is currently a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and a principal dancer étoile at La Scala Theatre Ballet. Here we see him performing the Bolero de Ravel at the San Remo Festival 2024.

In this episode of contemporary and ballet male dancers IV, we introduce young dance Lauritz Carl from Denmark peerforming three different auditions as well as Italian mega dancer Roberto Bollo performing Bolero from Ravel with a group of italian young male dancers in La Escala de Milano.. With a hi

It’s a golden era of male ballet dancers and it is not just hyperbole. The young men rising up at Ballet academies around the artisitic world of ballet are some of the most exciting in dance right now. In this edition we feature two male ballet dancers: Alexander Kouslos from Australia and Canadia

In this seventeen episode of Male Ballet Dancers we present principal dancers from Brazil. We feature Gabriel Figaredo, Grand Peix winner and dancer at the Stuttgart, Germany Ballet, and Victor Gaixeta who was born in Uberlândia, Brazil and trained as a dancer at the Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin

In this fourteenth installment of our "Male Ballet Dancers" we are proud to feature classical training and dancing by three principal solo dancers: Steve McRae, principal ballet dancer, London Royal Opera Ballet; Kimin Kim, Marinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg; and, Ivan Vasilev, former Bolshoi Princ

In this fnineteenth episode of Male Ballet Dancers we present several dancers. We feature Colombian Josue Gomez and Zachary Catazaro from Ohio, USA. We also included previously featured David Fernandez choreography of VITRUBIAN MAN performed by Chase Fenlay; Ask La Cour; and Amar Ramazar. Wi

Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker was first performed in 1892; since then, the show has become a holiday tradition. In The Hip Hop Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s soundtrack remains, but there’s no ballet. It’s a contemporary spin on a classic, and the show tours around the world. We attended a New York City