Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Archive - October 2014
Troy Schumacher's BalletCollective company is a work in progress and unusually has a resident writer, Cynthia Zarin. Marina Harss, at New York's Skirball Center, sees where they are all at...
Works by Karole Armitage, Wayne McGregor, Crystal Pite and Alexander Whitley. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Having wowed London with three acclaimed seasons over the last six years, at last the Mikhailovsky Ballet make their American debut in NY. Lisa Snyder introduces the company and its repertoire...
These dudes are clearly the surfers of the ice skating world; athletes who are creating a new freestyle version of their discipline...
Ludovic Ondiviela is making his first full-length work, Cassandra, for the Royal Ballet. And Mara Galeazzi is back from retirement to help him. We catch up with them...
A key to the book's success is that it's based on talking about one company - the Royal Ballet - and that makes all the information so much more real and immediate.
Something rather unusual from Dance Umbrella - Ice Skating at the Alexandra Palace. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Critics have compared the new Liam Scarlett to Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering; if so, it’s as if Dances had been set in an unhappy corner of the planet, for a group of lost souls...
The dancers’ dedication and sense of purpose were genuine and consistently present; but I wasn’t moved.
"It was a hell of a performance." Marina Harss on Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free.
...there's a strong whiff of 'experimental student' here, but there's also a good bit of talent on display.
Liam Scarlett's "With a Chance of Rain" premiere - It seemed Marcelo Gomes and Hee Seo might never detach from each other in the final pas de deux...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Tao Ye has a very singular, uncompromising vision. The works are stark and unadorned, using very simple vocabulary...
The word transcendent gets tossed around a lot, overused, especially in the performing arts. But if one performer deserves it at this year's Fall For Dance Festival, it is Aakash Odedra.
Washington is going Little Dancer mad with both an exhibition of the famous Edgar Degas sculpture and a new Susan Stroman musical based on the iconic art work with Tiler Peck in the lead...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Jann Parry reviews Scènes de ballet, Five Brahms Waltzes, Symphonic Variations and A Month in the Country...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...