Tony Candeloro: “Now this relay is going to the future”

2023-04-27 22:54:46

The Italian dancer and choreographer Tony Candeloro devoted almost 40 years to the study of Russian ballet. Interest flared up in the 1980s. in Paris, when the young dancer met the students of the legendary ballerinas of the Russian imperial theaters, who left the country after the revolution of 1917.

The reconstruction of Marius Petipa’s ballet The Pharaoh’s Daughter, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theater at the end of March, was Candeloro’s first production of a large form and the apogee of his ballet research.