As the La Notte magazine's editor-in-chief, I'd like to share that a little over a year ago I made my directorial debut with the short film La Solitude. It's an abstract story about the loneliness we choose by ourselves. Black and white and short, this film is about the atmosphere and feeling. I had been planning it for a few years, thinking about the periods of life when we isolate ourselves from others due to various circumstances.

Bright and noble Kentaro Mitsumori is a Principal Dancer of the Vienna State Ballet. We have talked to him about his career path, working with such legends as Nicolas Le Riche and Alessandra Ferri, his acting onstage and inspiration. You started this season as a principal dancer at the Vienna State Ballet. What are your first impressions of working in Vienna?

La Notte magazine's primary goal has always been to showcase creative individuals and artists of various disciplines to the public. Today, let us introduce you to Paul Chase, a multidisciplinary artist from Galena, Illinois, and his "Stone Dancers" sculpture series. Paul talks about himself and the art of ballet in his life: The art of ballet is a highly technical and influential form of performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance and evolved into a globally recognized art form with a unique vocabulary.

The idea of ​​observing the mutual influence of Western Europe and East/Southeast Asia in the arts and media came to me some time ago. I was a bit overwhelmed by the scope of the topic and the vague time frame. Ultimately, I decided to focus on the highly curious period of the 1980s and 1990s, which aesthetics still excite consciousness and remain fashionable even a quarter of a century later.

The 2025 Pianissimo Summer Festival has come to an end. This year it took place in five cities: St. Petersburg, Peterhof, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Kaliningrad. Photos: Georgy Pavlovsky, Pianissimo Festival This summer I was lucky to attend three concerts in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The first of them was performed by Ron Maxim Huang from Germany with works by romanticists such as Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt, Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as composers of the second half of the 20th century Wang Jianzhong and Charles Trenet.

At the end of the 24/25 season at the Mariinsky Theatre, the public had the chance to see the debut appearances on stage of the new soloist of the ballet troupe, Minchul Jeon, a graduate of the Korea National University of Arts (Seoul), multiple prize-winner at the Youth America Grand Prix international competition. The first performances of the young talented Korean dancer in the pas de trois of Swan Lake and in the role of Solor in La Bayadère attracted the increased attention of both St.

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