★★★★✰ In the last several years, the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky has developed a sideline to his main choreographic efforts: the reviving of ballets by Marius Petipa in a way that represents the original choreography with as much fidelity as possible...
Tag - Verdi
★★★★★ The Trocks' version of Swan Lake (or Lac, as it used to be known) restores some Soviet era removals. Benno, the hero's best friend and supporter, is back, as are mime sequences, mostly mystifying the participants...
★★★★✰ It’s been a very enjoyable homage to Robbins’s versatility...
★★★★✰ The centenary celebration bills are more than enough to give a sense of Robbins' breadth, theatrical savvy, stylistic curiosities, and, perhaps most unique of all, his ability to present dancers as human beings onstage.
Answer: "Do it!" Question: "What advice would you give to a young dancer who aspires to choreograph?"
★★★✰✰ Both are bold, engaging commissions – always welcome from a regional UK dance troupe.
★★★✰✰ Le Corsaire, a ballet loosely based on Lord Byron’s poem about a chivalrous pirate, has more action than the latest Bond film. There are pirates! Abductions! Beautiful women in distress! The list goes on and on...
In the world of opera, dance has a rather low place on the totem pole. Music critics (and opera audiences) can be pretty dismissive...
Both Royal Ballet premieres, one by Kim Brandstrup, the other by Liam Scarlett, were surely keepers, bound to be seen again.
A new double bill has just been unveiled by Candoco Dance Company with work by Hetain Patel and Thomas Hauert...
In the end, the real pleasure of the evening is watching two extraordinary showmen...
At the outset I have to say I thought this year was one of the better years and we should all feel encouraged at the creativity on show.
Candoco completely embodies the essence of diversity in the human condition. I love the emphasis of its strapline being “The Company of Disabled and Non-Disabled Dancers”.