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Martha Graham Dance Company – Graham Deconstructed: El Penitente, Hérodiade – New York
★★★✰✰ Both El Penitente and Hérodiade are from the 40’s, a period when Graham was transitioning from exploration of American and Native-American themes to a more mythical mode.
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Akram Khan Company – Until the Lions – London
★★★★✰ As an almost abstract dance work Until the Lions is outstanding, a spectacular collaboration between dancers, musicians, designers and technicians.
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Uchenna Dance – Hansel & Gretel – London
★★★✰✰ Vicki Igbokwe’s bold dance retelling of the classic fairytale Hansel and Gretel has a sense of playfulness at its heart, and something of a political message for adults to chew on too.
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Some Memorable Performances of 2018 – New York
Other years have been more exciting, I think, but this one has had its share of remarkable performances, including a few thrilling ones. Here, in no particular order, are the ones that really stood out, for one reason or another.
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Royal Ballet – Les Patineurs, Winter Dreams, The Concert – London
★★★★✰ Now that we are all one more Nutcracker nearer death, as weary critic Richard Buckle used to bemoan, the Royal Ballet has given us a wintry bonne bouche of ballets to savour.
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Memorable Performances of 2018 – London
Semperoper Ballett Dresden were another new visitor in the summer, with a programme of Forsythe works, some not seen here before. But Forsythe is a theme this year in himself.
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Gallery – Royal Ballet in Les Patineurs, Winter Dreams and The Concert
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
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Birmingham Royal Ballet – Autumn delights: La fille mal gardée & The Nutcracker – London & Birmingham
★★★★✰ I look forward to the changes inevitably coming to BRB, but I can’t believe any new director will turn their back on such repertoire gems as La fille mal gardee and their Peter Wright Nutcracker.
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San Francisco Ballet – Nutcracker – San Francisco
★★★★✰ I’m a Nutcracker fan. And I’m a fan of San Francisco Ballet’s current production, choreographed in 2004 by Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson…
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Scottish Ballet – Cinderella – Edinburgh
★★★★✰ The cast I saw at the first performance of this year’s Christmas touring season were the best (Ugly) Step-Sisters I’ve ever seen – take a bow Constance Devernay and Aisling Brangan.
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New York City Ballet – The Nucracker – New York
★★★✰✰ Come hell or high water, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker will return to New York City Ballet, filling the theatre night after night. Balanchine made a ballet built to last, and it has not disappointed.
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Forced Entertainment – That Night Follows Day – London
★★★★✰ Performed by a cast of seventeen children ranging from ages 5 – 15, Forced Entertainment’s delightfully humorous and poignant work reveals how adults shape children through their projection of values and beliefs.
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Company XIV – Nutcracker Rouge – New York
★★★★✰ Austin McCormick’s Company XIV continues to maintain the highest bar in balletic, baroque burlesque.
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December 20, 2018Gallery – Royal Ballet in Les Patineurs, Winter Dreams and The Concert
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December 13, 2018
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November 29, 2018
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November 22, 2018
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November 21, 2018
Gallery – Royal Ballet in The Unknown Soldier, Infra, Symphony in C
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November 14, 2018
Gallery – Mark Morris Dance Group / Silkroad Ensemble: Layla and Majnun
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November 8, 2018
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November 5, 2018
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November 3, 2018
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November 1, 2018
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January 17, 2019Martha Graham Dance Company – Graham Deconstructed: El Penitente, Hérodiade – New York
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January 16, 2019
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January 9, 2019
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December 23, 2018
Royal Ballet – Les Patineurs, Winter Dreams, The Concert – London
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December 19, 2018
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December 18, 2018
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December 18, 2018
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December 16, 2018
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December 16, 2018
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December 16, 2018
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November 10, 2018Interview: Mayara Magri, First Soloist, The Royal Ballet
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November 2, 2018
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November 1, 2018
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October 27, 2018
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October 26, 2018
5 Questions to Dane Hurst about his creative life and dancing in Didy Veldman’s The Knot…
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October 23, 2018
5 Questions to choreographer Ieva Kuniskis about her latest work, future plans and Brexit…
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October 10, 2018
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September 25, 2018
Carlos Acosta – Dancer, Directer, Choreographer: ‘I am a man on a mission – I always have been’
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September 18, 2018
5 Questions to Seeta Patel about her latest work – Not Today’s Yesterday
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August 28, 2018
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December 24, 2018Some Memorable Performances of 2018 – New York
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December 23, 2018
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December 13, 2018
Close up with Darcey Bussell and Ashton’s Sylvia at the Royal Opera House Cinema Festival
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October 5, 2018
Hauptaktion at London’s Collisions Festival 2018 – Examing cultural appropriation and Minstrel shows
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September 30, 2018
World Ballet Day, 2 October 2018 – an insight into what The Royal Ballet will be doing
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September 11, 2018
Voguing at the Southbank’s Ulimited festival – “Vogue: The Unlimited House of Krip”
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June 16, 2018
2018 English National Ballet Emerging Dancer Competition – performance and results
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June 2, 2018
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May 10, 2018
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May 6, 2018
