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54th <\/span>Positano Premia la Danza L\u00e9onide Massine<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Saturday, September 5, 2026, 8:30 PM \u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Positano Spiaggia Grande<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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AWARD-WINNING ARTISTS GALA
\n<\/strong>Saturday, September 5, 8:30 p.m., Spiaggia Grande in Positano<\/h4>\n

Artistic Director<\/em> LAURA VALENTE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Presented by Journalist<\/em> MARIA CAVA<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Artistic Coordinator since 2023<\/em>
\nALESSIO CARBONE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

AWARD WINNERS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

SYLVIE GUILLEM <\/strong><\/span>Francia
\nLifetime Achievement Award and Absolute Dancer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

VIRGINIA ATTANASIO<\/strong><\/span> Italia
\n\u201cLuca Vespoli\u201d Award for the Promotion and Support of Dance<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

ANDREA VILIANI<\/strong><\/span> Italia
\nSpecial Award for Research and the Integration of the Arts and Digital Innovation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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DANCERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD:<\/strong><\/span>
\nJapan, England, Korea, Denmark, Sweden, France, the United States, Germany, Austria, Italy, Australia, and the Principality of Monaco<\/strong><\/p>\n

Staatsballet Berlin
\nHARUKA SASSA<\/span><\/strong> Japan – Germany
\nKALLE WIGLE<\/strong> Sweden – Germany<\/span><\/p>\n

Teatro alla Scala di Milano
\nANTONELLA ALBANO<\/span> Italy
\nALICE MARIANI<\/span>\u00a0Italia
\nGIOACCHINO STARACE<\/span> Italy
\nNAVRIN TURNBULL<\/span> Australia – Italy
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ballet de l’Op\u00e9ra de Paris
\nHOHYUN KANG<\/span><\/strong> South Korea – France
\nLORENZO LELLI<\/strong><\/span> Italy – France<\/p>\n

Ballet de Monte-Carlo e Royal Danish Ballet<\/strong>
\nDILLON BRIZIC <\/strong>United States – Principality of Monaco<\/span>
\nTOBIAS J\u00d8RGENSEN <\/strong>Denmark<\/span><\/p>\n

The Royal Ballet
\nANNA ROSE O\u2019SULLIVAN<\/span><\/strong> England
\nANTONELLA ALBANO<\/strong><\/span> Italy<\/p>\n

Wiener Staatsballett
\nMADISON YOUNG<\/span><\/strong> Usa – Austria
\nALESSANDRO FROLA<\/strong><\/span> Italy – Austria<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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BOARD<\/strong><\/h3>\n

JOS\u00c9 CARLOS MART\u00cdNEZ GARCIA<\/span><\/strong>
\nDirecteur de la Danse de l\u2019Op\u00e9ra National de Paris Francia\/Spagna<\/em><\/p>\n

SUSANNE JAFFE<\/strong><\/span>
\nArtistic Director of the American Ballet Theatre \u2013 USA<\/p>\n

KEVIN O’HARE<\/span><\/strong>
\nDirector of The Royal Ballet London<\/em>
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\nFr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Olivieri<\/span><\/strong>
\nDirector of the Ballet Company at La Scala \u2013 Italy\/France<\/p>\n

LAURA VALENTE<\/strong><\/span>
\nArtistic Director of the Massine Prize since 2016 \u2013 Italy<\/p>\n

Honorary Presidents of the L\u00e9onide Massine Award
\nALBERTO TESTA <\/strong>e ALFIO AGOSTINI<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
\nSYLVIE GUILLEM<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Discovered by Rudolf Nureyev, Sylvie Guillem was appointed an \u00e9toile of the Paris Opera at just 19 years of age. She spent twenty years with the Royal Ballet in London, becoming one of the defining interpreters of such giants as Maurice B\u00e9jart, William Forsythe, Mats Ek and Akram Khan. Awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, her artistic life has embraced both the classical and contemporary repertoire with equal authority, establishing her as one of the most influential dancers of her generation.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u200b\u200bSylvie Guillem was never an \u00e9toile like the others, and perhaps that is precisely why, at the age of nineteen, Rudolf Nureyev decided to appoint her as such, breaking with the long-standing conventions of the Paris Opera. From that moment on, her body \u2014 capable of an extension that seemed to defy the laws of anatomy \u2014 became the instrument through which contemporary dance learned to express new ideas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At the Royal Ballet in London, over the course of twenty years, she danced the works of B\u00e9jart and Forsythe, Mats Ek and Akram Khan, bringing everywhere the same uncompromising technical precision and the same curiosity towards the language of her own time, while never ceasing to be, first and foremost, a \u2018classical\u2019 dancer.<\/p>\n

The Lifetime Achievement Award and Ballerina Assoluta is bestowed upon an artist who has taught generations that technique, when it is genuine, is never an end in itself, but a means to freedom: it is not the absence of rules, but the intensity with which one inhabits a gesture, the personal signature that no school can teach, the courage to venture beyond what has already been written.<\/p>\n

Then, as now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\"Sylvie
<\/span><\/span>Sylvie Guillem<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>
\"Sylvie
<\/span><\/span>Sylvie Guillem_\u00a9Richard Avedon<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>
\"Sylvie
<\/span><\/span>Sylvie Guillem<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>
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THE STORY OF AN AWARD THAT HAS CONTINUED TO EVOLVE<\/h3>\n
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The pearl of the Amalfi Coast has attracted some of the greatest artists in the world since the 1920s, when one of Diaghilev\u2019s collaborators settled here, soon followed by artists such as Lifar, Bakst, Nijinsky and Stravinsky, as well as iconic figures including Picasso and Cocteau.<\/p>\n

L\u00e9onide Massine, the celebrated dancer and choreographer of the Ballets Russes, fell in love with Positano, and the powerful impresario Sergei Diaghilev gifted him the nearby islands known as Li Galli.<\/p>\n

Among the many distinguished figures who have walked its streets were Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev, who in turn made Li Galli one of his beloved retreats.<\/p>\n

On 2 August 1969, the Positano Award was born. Ten years after its first edition, following the death of L\u00e9onide Massine, the award was renamed in his honour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Over the years, the event has celebrated \u2014 impossible to name them all \u2014 some of the most renowned artists in the history of dance: from Margot Fonteyn to Rudolf Nureyev, from Maurice B\u00e9jart to Ekaterina Maximova, Carla Fracci and Luciana Savignano, Elisabetta Terabust and Roberto Bolle, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alicia Alonso, Mats Ek, Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n, Wayne McGregor, Marie Chouinard, Lutz F\u00f6rster, Vladimir Vassiliev, Nacho Duato, Svetlana Zakharova, Viengsay Vald\u00e9s and Anthony Dowell, among the many extraordinary artists honoured throughout the numerous editions of the Award.<\/p>\n

The Positano Award never stopped, not even during the pandemic, when a special edition dedicated to Carla Fracci was held in 2021.<\/p>\n

The Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Alessandra Ferri in 2022; to Luciana Savignano, together with Benjamin Millepied, in 2023; to Dada Masilo, alongside Dancer of the Year Luc\u00eda Lacarra, in 2024; and to Angelin Preljocaj in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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