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September 20, 2020 · Interviews · 0 Comments · Bruce Marriott

English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer 2020 Competition – 5 Questions to 6 Finalists

English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer Competition is unique in British ballet in throwing the spotlight on more junior dancers or “the excellence of the Company’s young talent,” as ENB put it. This year’s competition is live-streamed from ENB’s London studios on 22 September and ahead of the that we talk to the finalists – Ivana Bueno, Carolyne Galvao, Miguel Angel Maidana, Victor Prigent, Emily Suzuki and William Yamada…
September 17, 2020 · Reviews · 0 Comments · Susanna Sloat

Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance – 20th Anniversary Virtual Season

★★★★✰ Ice Cycle is an unusually beautiful vision suggesting, at times, the effects of global warming, encompassing Sperling’s environmental concerns as well as her choreographic and design mastery.
September 2, 2020 · Features · 0 Comments · Jann Parry

Outdoors Ballet – some different responses to Lockdown from around the world

As lockdown eases ballet is getting out of streaming from living rooms and into the big wide world – Jann Parry looks at six happenings/films involving dancers from Dance Theatre of Harlem, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Alonzo King LINES Ballet & The Royal Ballet
September 1, 2020 · Reviews · 0 Comments · Graham Watts

Marquee TV – Summer Shorts festival in association with Screen.dance and the SF Dance Film Festival

★★★★✰ 21 dance films, sourced from all over the globe and presented by Marquee TV in association with Screen.dance (Scotland’s Festival of dance on screen) and San Francisco Dance Film Festival.
August 17, 2020 · Reviews · 0 Comments · Claudia Bauer

RAWdance presents – CONCEPT series: Digital Edition and Dance Party – San Francisco

★★★★✰ Rather than succumb to a COVID-19 hiatus, RAWdance pivoted to a dance-on-camera format for the CONCEPT Series’ 28th edition, and presented seven new short films created by various artists over the past few months…
August 16, 2020 · Interviews · 0 Comments · Marina Harss

RDB’s Tobias Praetorius on his new ballet, The Princess and the Pea

Royal Danish Ballet’s Tobias Praetorius is an anomaly, a young dancer – he’s only 24 – who is already interested in playing character roles. He is also a choreographer and Marina Harss catches up with him about his latest project – a ‘Pixiballet’ (aimed at children) based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Princess and the Pea…
August 13, 2020 · Reviews · 0 Comments · Jann Parry

An Evening with Scottish Ballet – part of Edinburgh International Festival 2020

★★★✰✰ Although An Evening with Scottish Ballet could have been better presented by the Edinburgh Festival, the programme showcases an enterprising company full of ideas…
August 11, 2020 · Interviews · 2 Comments · Marina Harss

Alexei Ratmansky, the Covid-19 Interview

Alexei Ratmansky, the Covid-19 Interview – “Its’ like a dress rehearsal for retirement and it turns out that I’m not ready for it.”
August 4, 2020 · Reviews · 1 Comments · Marina Harss

Kaatsbaan Summer Festival – Works by Larry Keigwin, Leonardo Sandoval & Calvin Royal III – New York

★★★★✰ The Kaatsbaan Summer Festival offers the respite of communication without words, of the beauty of the body moving freely through space, and of shared experience.
August 3, 2020 · Reviews · 0 Comments · Jann Parry

BBC, Artangel and Sadler’s Wells – Jonathan Glazer’s Strasbourg 1518, featuring Pina Bausch dancers

★★✰✰✰ Strasbourg 1518 has been lauded as ‘head buttingly confrontational’ and an original ‘dance for today’. It isn’t. Familiar Bausch tropes don’t really reflect 1518’s psychogenic mania, which was communal, or today’s experience of isolation, stress and tedium.