Carla Fracci mourns -- via news agency ANSA -- the disappearance of "the God of dance", and says that the news of his death "strike like a hurricane"; Roberto Bolle's regret for the death of "the great innovator, the artist withour borders, central figure of the dance of the twentieth century: I've always been fascinated by the raw power of his work, the dialogue between dance and the other arts, between daily life and intellectual life". Luciana Savignano's tears for "the man who changed my life forever, opened up a new world in front of my eyes, and taught me how dance could be something else, and so much more than what I thought it was".