★★★★✰ New York audiences and the Miami City Ballet have taken to each other like sun and salt air, and it’s easy to see why.
Archive - April 2016
★★★★✰ On show were three contemporary pieces: a rep work by rehearsal director Lee Johnson, a selection of Alexander Ekman’s Tuplet (originally choreographed for Cedar Lake Dance Company), and the premiere of new artistic director Caroline Finn’s first piece for NDCWales.
★★★★✰ This is dancing that makes one hungry for more.
★★★★✰ Wheeldon has succeeded in turning an often intractable play into an emotionally moving ballet.
English National Ballet in works by Aszure Barton, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Yabin Wang. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★★✰ This is my sixth encounter with Boris Eifman’s danced biography of Auguste Rodin, via viewings that have now been spread over three great cities...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★✰✰ If the tech didn't entirely wow and draw me in then the Motionhouse dancers did as strong and agile performers. This is dance infused with circus and their clever physicality pleases no end.
NDT2 in works by Johan Inger, Edward Clug, Hans van Manen and Alexander Ekman. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Press release – 11 April 2016 Victor Hochhauser presents BOLSHOI BALLET General Director: Vladimir Urin Artistic Director: Makhar Vaziev ROYAL OPERA HOUSE Monday 25 July – Saturday 13 August 2016 The Bolshoi Ballet and Orchestra return to the Royal Opera House for a glittering three-week season, opening with the London premiere of a new restaging by Alexei Fadeyechev of Petipa’s magnificent...
★★★✰✰ As with all such showcase events, where every last member needs his or her moment on stage, it was an enthusiastic if somewhat ramshackle affair.
★★✰✰✰ It included several new works, two of them by women, part of a worthy new initiative, “Women Who Move Us.”
★★★✰✰ It’s a well-structured and paced piece, a successful integration of its different components, at times quite literally dazzling...
★★★★✰ They say that the best cooks take the ingredients and do the least to them to create a magnificent meal, and that's what Michael Keegan-Dolan has done...
★★★★✰ San Francisco Ballet (SFB) saved the best for its last mixed bill of the 2016 season.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ Anyone in need of resurrecting their libido need look no further than Ballet Hispanico’s 45th anniversary season at the Joyce Theater...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ It’s an interesting idea to see how successfully the dance makers can use the different skills of the circus performers, and how the performers respond...
★★★✰✰ Ballet Central's 2016 tour visits 17 theatres with 8 diverse works. Bruce Marriott catches up with one of the paciest nights of dance you will find...