There is joy in repetition. Repetition that goes beyond my perceived limits. Repetition that on paper sounds like something that would not be possible for the person I think I am.
Archive - September 2013
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
In short, it was foot-tapping fun!
What most struck me on this particular evening was the transparency, and clarity of intention, that marked each work.
Dance Odysseys at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival with reviews on 20 dance works by Scottish Ballet, Scottish Dance Theatre, Gelabert Azzopardi Companyia de Dansa, James Cousins and Rosie Kay. Also thoughts on 4 rare films and links to much video material and many other reviews. It's big!
Kevin O’Hare, Director of The Royal Ballet, announced today that Matthew Golding is to join the Company as a Principal in February 2014. His first performance will be on 27 March dancing alongside Natalia Osipova in The Sleeping Beauty.
The most successful pieces of the evening are – perhaps not coincidentally – those least directly indebted to McGregor’s movement volcabulary and compositional style.
Amid all the fuss about the costumes, the choreogaphy paled... What a joy, then, to see a section of Western Symphony, with those marvelous frou-frou tutus by Karinska and that euphoric outpouring of Balanchine’s’ crisp, witty steps.
A major triumph throughout the work is a seamless integration of dance with all other theatrical elements.
This Cinderella, the hotly anticipated centerpiece of the Australian Ballet’s 2013 season, is sensationally, luxuriantly, and extravagantly beautiful...
Gallery by Sunkyung Jang
The Contortions of Contemporary Ballet, Put to Use... for a while.
English National Ballet is encouraging people in the UK to join in with International Pirate Day*, the annual event held on September 19... and herald the arrival of the pirate ballet Le Corsaire.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou
Wherever Virginia Johnson goes, she seems to travel on a cloud, with a kind of regal composure few possess in our day. She appears imperturbable...
STOP PRESS - SERGEI POLUNIN is performing... Yorkshire Ballet Summer School is set to celebrate its 40th anniversary this year with a star-studded, glamorous gala evening at Sadler’s Wells on Sunday September 29th.
5 Questions to Mark Bruce about his up and coming premiere and UK tour of 'Dracula'....
20 pictures by Sunkyung Jang
"It's all so ridiculous. This dancing thing." The great Jarkko Lehmus has a new blog with us and he's just as outspoken as ever...
Kevin O’Hare, Director of The Royal Ballet, is delighted to announce that two Guest Artists will be performing with the Company this Autumn - Evgenia Obraztsova and lana Selenko