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Smuin Contemporary Ballet – Indigo – streamed archive recording of 2016 performance
★★★★✰ Indigo is one of those dances that doesn’t seem totally abstract, yet doesn’t follow a linear path either. It’s more about concept and emotions. Layers and extremes. Just like the colour indigo itself.
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Royal Opera House/Royal Ballet – Live from Covent Garden: Third Concert (27 June)
★★★★✰ The singers had the lions’ share of the concert, with just two pas de deux by Royal Ballet couples, Matthew Ball and Mayara Magri, Reece Clarke and Fumi Kaneko.
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Carlos Acosta in Lockdown
Carlos Acosta chats to Graham Watts about how things are going after his first few months at the artistic helm of Birmingham Royal Ballet & the impact that Covid-19 has had on his plans…
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English National Ballet – Song of the Earth – streamed archive recording of 2017 performance
★★★★✰ The recording reveals how unusual the choreography is, as it was in 1965… Dancers in pointe shoes have to adapt to flexed feet, flat-footed parallel positions, torsos bent forward, elbows and wrists held at angles.
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Scottish Ballet – The Rite of Spring & The Fairy’s Kiss – streamed archive recordings of 2017 performance
With one common factor, music by Igor Stravinsky, Scottish Ballet (SB) deliver two excellent and very contrasting performances which were filmed at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh in 2017.
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Royal Opera House/Royal Ballet – Live from Covent Garden: Second Concert (20 June)
★★★★★ Though the concert was a treat, could the Royal Opera House please try raising our spirits in future streamings, and give the Royal Ballet the prominence it deserves.
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Royal Ballet – La Fille mal gardée – streamed archive recording of 2005 performance
★★★★★ If you want an antidote to any miserable lockdown mood, La Fille mal gardée cannot fail to lift your spirits and allow you to marvel at some really first-rate dancing.
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Dance Theatre of Harlem – Creole Giselle – streamed archive recording of 1987 performance
★★★✰✰ Giselle was the first full-length classical ballet that Arthur Mitchell’s company of black American dancers would perform. He thought there would be no point in their pretending to be Rhineland peasants, so decided to set the 19th century ballet in pre-Civil War Louisiana.
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Vadim Muntagirov on life under lockdown and dancing at the ROH again, to be seen this Saturday
The Royal Ballet’s Vadim Muntagirov talks about making the most of lockdown and getting ready to dance again for the Royal Opera House’s Live from Covent Garden transmission on Saturday night (20 June 2020), where he is dancing Ashton’s seldom-seen “Dance of the Blessed Spirits”…
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Royal Opera House/Royal Ballet – Live from Covent Garden: First Concert
★★★✰✰ The first concert was not much of a consolation for all that we have lost. So far, the Royal Ballet appears a token add-on to the opera’s contributions…
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Dormeshia – And Still You Must Swing – streamed recording
★★★★★ Dormeshia’s And Still You Must Swing is the first online dance that made me want to write about it. I knew it would be good…
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Marianela Núñez on one of her fav ballets, La Fille mal gardée, and life under lockdown
Marianela Núñez talks about one of her favourite ballets, “La Fille mal gardée”, and life under lockdown, which for Marianela has been in Argentina. “La Fille mal gardee”, one of the most loved works in the Royal Ballet repertoire, streams this Friday, 12 June, from 19:00 BST
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Royal Ballet – The Cellist – streamed recording
★★★★✰ Cathy Marston has achieved much in bringing the life of Jacqueline du Pré to the ballet stage and perhaps one of the things that becomes even clearer with repeated viewings, is that the music and the dance are inextricably linked.
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May 30, 2020Gallery – Avatâra Ayuso & Zhao Zhibo’s LIMBO 无间
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February 29, 2020
Gallery – Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan in 13 Tongues & Dust
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February 25, 2020
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February 22, 2020
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February 17, 2020
Gallery – Royal Ballet in The Cellist and Dances at a Gathering
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February 17, 2020
Gallery – Acosta Danza in Up Close: Mundo Interpretado and Two
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February 16, 2020
Gallery – Russell Maliphant & Dana Fouras in The Space Between (Maliphantworks3)
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February 16, 2020
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February 7, 2020
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January 31, 2020
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July 1, 2020Smuin Contemporary Ballet – Indigo – streamed archive recording of 2016 performance
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July 1, 2020
Royal Opera House/Royal Ballet – Live from Covent Garden: Third Concert (27 June)
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June 25, 2020
English National Ballet – Song of the Earth – streamed archive recording of 2017 performance
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June 24, 2020
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June 22, 2020
Royal Opera House/Royal Ballet – Live from Covent Garden: Second Concert (20 June)
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June 19, 2020
Royal Ballet – La Fille mal gardée – streamed archive recording of 2005 performance
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June 18, 2020
Dance Theatre of Harlem – Creole Giselle – streamed archive recording of 1987 performance
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June 17, 2020
Royal Opera House/Royal Ballet – Live from Covent Garden: First Concert
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June 16, 2020
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June 8, 2020
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June 30, 2020Carlos Acosta in Lockdown
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June 18, 2020
Vadim Muntagirov on life under lockdown and dancing at the ROH again, to be seen this Saturday
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June 10, 2020
Marianela Núñez on one of her fav ballets, La Fille mal gardée, and life under lockdown
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February 9, 2020
Interview: Trey McIntyre on creating The Big Hunger for San Francisco Ballet
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February 4, 2020
Cathy Marston on The Cellist & Mrs. Robinson – new works for The Royal Ballet & San Francisco Ballet
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November 3, 2019
Interview – Jonathan Watkins and his new film ‘Kes Reimagined’ – a Kes for Today
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October 23, 2019
Interview: Arthur Pita on choreographing “Alice in Californiland” for AXIS Dance Company
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October 21, 2019
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October 1, 2019
5 Questions to Sarah Lamb, Royal Ballet Principal, about dancing Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon…
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September 26, 2019
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June 7, 2020Amici Dance Theatre’s 40th Anniversary during lock-down
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June 6, 2020
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April 27, 2020
Stuttgart Ballet – Mayerling – streamed archive recording of Stuttgart premiere
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April 24, 2020
Feature – Ashton Rediscovered Masterclass: Voices of Spring, coached by Merle Park and Wayne Eagling
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April 20, 2020
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April 3, 2020
‘CUNNINGHAM’ – Alla Kovgan’s film about Legendary Dancer and Choreographer Merce Cunningham
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April 2, 2020
Exhibition – X6 Dance Space (1976-80): Liberation Notes – London
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December 30, 2019
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December 26, 2019
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December 24, 2019
