FIRE & ICE.(Royal Ballet ballerina and American Ballet Theatre principal guest artist Viviana Durante)(Interview)

From: Dance Magazine | Date: August 1, 1999| Author: OSTLERE, HILARY | Copyright information

This Royal Ballet ballerina brought her Anglo-Italian temperament to American Ballet Theatre audiences in the company's first performances of Kenneth Macmillan's Anastasia.

I'm an English dancer with an Italian personality," declares Viviana Durante--a dramatic ballerina with a fiery Italian temperament and a British upbringing. This combination of extremes has helped to propel Durante to international stardom; a Royal Ballet principal since 1989, she was one of the comp...

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