Events
Competitions, Festivals and other events

Ballet Gala in Seteais
1, 2 July 2023

This year’s International Ballet Gala in Seteais, near Sintra in Portugal, will feature Emma Riis-Kofoed and Jonathan Chmelensky (Royal Danish Ballet) in pas de deux from Kermesse in Bruges and Cinderella, Elena Bottaro and Lourenço Ferreira (Wiener Staatsballett) in pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet and The Sleeping Beauty, Gaia Mentoglio and Mirko Campigiotto (Ballett Theater Basel) in a duet from Coppélia and C’est Toi, and Margarita Fernandes and António Casalinho (Bayerisches Staatsballett) in pas de deux from Giselle and Diana and Actaeon on 1 July, and a repeat of the programme with Mirjana Atanasovska and Guilherme Gameiro Alves (Croatian National Ballet), instead of Fernandes and Casalinho, in Near This and Leave Me on 2 July. Under the artistic direction of Solange Melo and Fernando Duarte, the performances take place in the beautiful gardens of the Hotel-Palácio de Seteais. Video features excerpts from last year.

LISTINGS

Prix de Lausanne
28 January - 4 February 2024
(Finals on 3 February 2024)
Summer Intensive 6 - 11 July 2023
More information: www.prixdelausanne.org

Youth America Grand Prix
25th Anniversary Season
New York Finals 11 - 21 April 2024
International Semi-Final Dates
European semi-finals
Paris, France 2 - 5 November 2023
Verona, Italy 25 - 28 November 2023
Barcelona, Spain 7 - 10 December 2023
www.yagp.org

Past forward - Tra passato e futuro
Gala with Jacopo Tissi, Polina Semionova, Alina Cojocaru, Ksenia Ovsyanick, David Motta Soares and. Alejandro Virelles.
Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza. 13 July 2023.
https://www.tcvi.it

RIDCC 
This fifth edition of Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition (RIDCC) take place from 21 - 24 June and includes a guest programme featuring former participants have developed notably in recent years.
https://www.theaterrotterdam.nl

Messums Dance Film Festival
The Messums Dance Film Festival is part of a ten-day dance and dance film festival taking place in the largest thatched building in Wiltshire and runs this year from 14 - 23 July. More info at 
messumswiltshire.com

Genesis International Choreographic Competition

8 - 11 February 2024
Three choreographers will be selected to create new work on the dancers of Milwaukee Ballet.
Roundtrip transportation to Milwaukee, hotel and daily per diem provided.
Deadline for entries: 31 October 2023.
www.milwaukeeballet.org

Roberto Bolle & Friends 2023
Touring Italy
15 July - Piazza della SS. Annunziata, Florence
19 July - Arena di Verona
27 Jul - Parchi di Nervi, Genova
29 Jul - Teatro Antico, Taormina
www.robertobolle.com
Video from 2022

Ballet Auction

British Bespoke Auction's first sale of ballet memorabilia on 11 May 2023 attracted over 400 people world wide and with some competitive bidding between buyers both sides of the Atlantic. The most covetted lot no. 183, a photograph of Nijinsky and Karsavina in Le Spectre e la rose, signed by both dancers, went for £6,000. Another ballet auction is planned for later in the year.
www.bespokeauctions.co.uk

Birmingham Festival 23

Edinburgh International Festival