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A Late Summer’s Dream in Photos
Normally BALLET2000 presents a photographic panorama of the dance world, trimming down
its text to minimum, only once a year in the special issue that precedes the first of its annual six
bi-monthly issues. Exceptionally, however, here is a second photo issue for 2019 which we
hope our readers will appreciate.
This summer has been quite rich in dance shows at festivals all over Europe (especially in Italy and
France which are naturally festival-oriented countries). Our critics will be reviewing some of the
particularly successful and interesting novelties and creations in BALLET2000’s next issue.
Meanwhile, in the present issue we have selected a good many “end-of-summer” events, presenting
each one with a beautiful photo accompanied by a short informative text or commentary. “Beautiful”
doesn’t merely mean that they are of good photographic quality; certainly a number of these
shots, by some of the world’s best dance photographers, are pleasing to the eye thanks to the aesthetic
quality of the dance moment that they have been able to capture and to the beauty of the
dancing that has been immortalised in an instant that contains the movement itself. But the most
successful of these images are beautiful also because their instantaneous vision triggers an intuition
of an artistic nature which is that of choreographic creation.
Focusing on events of the outgoing summer and on the follow-up they’ll get during the incoming
autumn season, what have we picked out for you?