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Astana Ballet – Love Fear Loss, A Fuego Lento, Heritage of the Great Steppe, Salomé – London
★★★✰✰ The extremely good-looking company members are well-trained, versatile dancers…
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Margaret Jenkins Dance Company – Trace Figures – San Francisco
★★★★✰ Friday the 13th was auspicious for San Francisco dance: Margaret Jenkins Dance Company premiered Trace Figures, a site-specific performance immersion that could be done by no other company or permutation of artists.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – Programme C: Ounce of Faith, Members Don’t Get Weary, Ella, Revelations – London
★★★★✰ Having watched the company since childhood, I find it is impossible not to instantly appreciate the sheer beauty and energy they radiate…
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New English Ballet Theatre – New Works – London
★★★✰✰ In the event, the levels of polish and invention were quite remarkable given the circumstances.
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Gallery – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Lazarus and EN
Works by Rennie Harris and Jessica Lang. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
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RB, ABT, NYCB & NYTB dancers at the Joyce Ballet Festival – Prog C, curated by Jean-Marc Puissant – New York
★★★★✰ Starwise, Bejart’s Wayfarer bumps this program from two stars to four.
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Dane Hurst and Tom Rowland – Falling Man – London
★★★★✰ Falling Man is a huge achievement, performed with intensity and charisma, and we really need to see it again in our theatres.
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FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival including works by Davis/Mullis, Dazaun Soleyn and Maurya Kerr – San Francisco
★★★★✰ SF choreographers Maurya Kerr, Dazaun Soleyn and Slender-White, and the visiting duo of Joy Davis (Boston) and Eric Mullis (Charlotte, North Carolina), presented new works of 10–20 minutes in length.
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Scottish Ballet’s Crucible – From scrap board to stage, a dancers perspective
Araminta Wraith, Scottish Ballet soloist, is a DanceTabs guest blogger during the companies 50th anniversary season. The third blog is titled “From scrap board to stage, a dancers perspective” and all about the creation and premiere of Helen Pickett’s “The Crucible”.
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RB, NBoC & ABT dancers at the Joyce Ballet Festival – Prog B, curated by Lauren Cuthbertson – New York
★★✰✰✰ I hadn’t seen much of the well-regarded Cuthbertson, so I was looking forward to this chance to get to know her (she appeared in four of five pieces), as well as the not-always-dubious introduction to new works by new choreographers…
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Garrett + Moulton Productions – Four Acts of Light & Wonder bill – San Francisco
★★★✰✰ …the most apt descriptor for the entire program was joyful.
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Bolshoi Ballet – Don Quixote – London
★★★★✰ The reason the Bolshoi’s Don Quixote is so enjoyable is the gusto with which it is performed. It doesn’t aim to be remotely authentically Spanish or even respectful of the original 1869 version…
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Scottish Ballet – The Crucible – Edinburgh
★★★★★ Scottish Ballet has a major critical hit on their hands – this is compelling 21st century watching. It was the premiere you want to see, but so very often don’t, with everybody, but everybody, at the top of their game…
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Gallery – Bolshoi Ballet in Don Quixote (dress rehearsal)
Featuring pictures of 2 casts: Margarita Shrainer/Igor Tsvirko & Eleonora Sevenard/Artemy Belyakov. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
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September 19, 2019Gallery – English National Ballet in Akram Khan’s Giselle
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September 8, 2019
Gallery – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Lazarus and EN
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August 16, 2019
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August 8, 2019
Gallery – Bolshoi Ballet in The Bright Stream (dress rehearsal)
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August 3, 2019
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June 11, 2019
Gallery – Royal Ballet in The Firebird, A Month in the Country, Symphony in C
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June 9, 2019
Gallery – San Francisco Ballet in Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem and Anima Animus
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June 9, 2019
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June 2, 2019
Gallery – San Francisco Ballet in The Infinite Ocean, Snowblind and Björk Ballet
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May 30, 2019
Gallery – San Francisco Ballet in Alexei Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy
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September 19, 2019Astana Ballet – Love Fear Loss, A Fuego Lento, Heritage of the Great Steppe, Salomé – London
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September 18, 2019
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company – Trace Figures – San Francisco
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September 17, 2019
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September 17, 2019
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August 29, 2019
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August 24, 2019
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August 21, 2019
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August 19, 2019
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August 18, 2019
Garrett + Moulton Productions – Four Acts of Light & Wonder bill – San Francisco
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August 17, 2019
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July 29, 20195 Questions to Helen Pickett about her “Crucible” for Scottish Ballet and the Edinburgh International Festival…
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July 28, 2019
Interview – Claire Cunningham and her new Elvis inspired work “Thank You Very Much”
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July 10, 2019
5 Questions to Iain Mackay, Director of Yorkshire Ballet Seminars
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June 12, 2019
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June 4, 2019
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May 18, 2019
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May 12, 2019
Catching up with Morgann Runacre-Temple – work for Scottish Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and more
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May 7, 2019
5 Questions to Yolande Yorke-Edgell of Yorke Dance Project on celebrating their 20th anniversary
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May 4, 2019
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May 1, 2019
Jasper Conran, designer, on working in ballet with David Bintley and now Christopher Wheeldon
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August 20, 2019Scottish Ballet’s Crucible – From scrap board to stage, a dancers perspective
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July 28, 2019
Book – Dancing Under The Southern Skies: A History of Ballet in Australia – by Valerie Lawson
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July 27, 2019
Birmingham’s DanceXchange Launches Ambitious Plans to Support New Artists
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July 12, 2019
The Bolshoi Ballet in London, Summer 2019 – All you need to know (and more!)
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July 10, 2019
ROH Young Talent Festival Symposium on Exposure, Access and Opportunity
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June 20, 2019
Mari – a film by Georgia Parris, Bobbi Jene Smith and Maxine Doyle
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June 18, 2019
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June 10, 2019
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May 10, 2019
Carlos Acosta splendidly summed up as he collects his Critics’ Circle Services to the Arts award
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May 5, 2019
