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American Ballet Theatre – Harlequinade – New York
★★★★★ To my eye, this Harlequinade may be the most well-rounded of Ratmansky’s historically-minded stagings of Petipa.
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Yorke Dance Project – Twenty: Playground, Between and Within, Communion, Imprint – London
★★★★✰ By swelling the numbers of her small touring company, Yolande Yorke-Edgell was able to mount a revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s Playground and a 10-strong ensemble for Robert Cohan’s Communion. The programme also included new works by Sophia Stoller and Yorke-Edgell herself.
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Lauren Simpson Dance – Dance Exhibit – San Francisco
★★★★✰ I caught the show on closing night and saw a terrific company debut filled with collaboration, rigor and a connection to the visual art community.
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Birmingham Royal Ballet – Seasons in our World, Peter and the Wolf – Cheltenham
★★★✰✰ Bintley feels strongly about tradition (much more so than most other directors) and the commissions are his way of saying what’s important and passing that baton on.
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5 Questions to Myles Thatcher about a different take on ballet and working on Scottish Ballet’s Digital Season
www.instagram.com/mylesthatcher www.sfballet.org Scottish Ballet’s Digital Season: 16 May – 16 June 2019 Myles Thatcher is a choreographer and dancer with San Francisco Ballet who’s created a stir there, and elsewhere in North…
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Rambert – PreSentient, Rouge, In Your Rooms – London
★★★✰✰ The bill is a bold statement of intent – but a little underwhelming in reality.
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Parsons Dance – Round My World, Eight Women, Runes, Caught, Nascimento – New York
★★★★✰ I can’t recall ever leaving a theater after seeing a Trey McIntyre work, and not feeling better about things.
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Gallery – Deborah Colker Dance Company in Dog Without Feathers
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
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Viviana Durante Company – THREE/8.38/SEVEN – London
★★✰✰✰ The show at Wilton’s Music Hall, produced and directed by former ballerina Viviana Durante, was originally billed as The Seven Deadly Sins by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht…
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Yang Liping – Rite of Spring – London
★★★✰✰ As with most retellings, Liping’s centres on a young woman destined to dance herself to death. However, the dancemaker has invoked Buddhist principles, including the concept of reincarnation…
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Royal Ballet – Within the Golden Hour, Medusa, Flight Pattern – London
★★★✰✰ A very mixed bill… Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Medusa (★★✰✰✰), Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour (★★★★✰) and Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern (★★★★✰)
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Dorrance Dance – ETM: Double Down – San Francisco
★★★★✰ Dorrance Dance have a winning formula – creative innovation, dynamic physical feats, engaging stage presence and feet that move at superhuman speeds.
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Catching up with Morgann Runacre-Temple – work for Scottish Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and more
A busy time for Morgann Runacre-Temple with work for Scottish Ballet’s Digital Season, Stuttgart Ballet’s Noverre Young Choreographers Evening, English National Ballet and also her recent Northern Ballet commission will be touring again. She stops to answer 5 questions…
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New York City Ballet – All Balanchine quad bill including Scotch Symphony – New York
★★★★✰ There’s a reason why New York City Ballet doesn’t do George Balanchine’s Scotch Symphony very often. It’s a strangely disjointed ballet…
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May 17, 2019Gallery – Deborah Colker Dance Company in Dog Without Feathers
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May 11, 2019
Gallery – Royal Ballet in Medusa, Within the Golden Hour, Flight Pattern
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April 24, 2019
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April 17, 2019
Gallery – Night of 100 Solos in London: Merce Cunningham Trust, Centennial Event
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April 12, 2019
Gallery – International Draft Works 2019 – Royal Opera House, London
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April 5, 2019
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March 1, 2019
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February 26, 2019
Pictures Feature – BalletBoyz latest double bill, Them/Us, in the studio & on tour
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February 24, 2019
Gallery – Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in Bon Voyage, Bob…
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February 15, 2019
Gallery – Royal Ballet’s Marianela Nuñez & Vadim Muntagirov in Don Quixote
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May 21, 2019American Ballet Theatre – Harlequinade – New York
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May 20, 2019
Yorke Dance Project – Twenty: Playground, Between and Within, Communion, Imprint – London
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May 20, 2019
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May 20, 2019
Birmingham Royal Ballet – Seasons in our World, Peter and the Wolf – Cheltenham
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May 17, 2019
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May 17, 2019
Parsons Dance – Round My World, Eight Women, Runes, Caught, Nascimento – New York
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May 15, 2019
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May 14, 2019
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May 13, 2019
Royal Ballet – Within the Golden Hour, Medusa, Flight Pattern – London
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May 12, 2019
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May 18, 20195 Questions to Myles Thatcher about a different take on ballet and working on Scottish Ballet’s Digital Season
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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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April 2, 2019
Ivan Putrov on his latest night of ballet – Against the Stream
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March 20, 2019
5 Questions to Sophie Laplane – a Scottish Ballet Artist in Residence – about her new work, Dextera
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March 8, 2019
Cathy Marston on her new work for Northern Ballet, Victoria, the creative process and more…
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March 5, 2019
5 Questions to Pepperland designer Elizabeth Kurtzman about collaborating with Mark Morris
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February 28, 2019
5 Questions to Choreographer James Cousins about his new Touring Programme of Duets – Epilogues
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May 10, 2019Carlos Acosta splendidly summed up as he collects his Critics’ Circle Services to the Arts award
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May 5, 2019
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March 18, 2019
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February 26, 2019
Pictures Feature – BalletBoyz latest double bill, Them/Us, in the studio & on tour
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December 24, 2018
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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”
