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Archive - June 2014
...the dancers seem able to handle whatever comes their way. It’s a quality that will serve them well in their travels.
I was suitably sent home happy.
American Ballet Theatre’s Swan Lake is looking tired ...bogged down by reams of flavorless dancing.
In the end, the real pleasure of the evening is watching two extraordinary showmen...
Like the best comedians, Ekman is as facetious as he is profound, leaving the viewer with plenty to ponder post-performance.
The result is enchantingly low-tech, re-created afresh at every performance
It’s a very satisfying package of liquid, sinuous movement delivered by idiosyncratic and characterful performers.
Transitions Dance Company is a finishing school that provides a special opportunity to contextualise their dance studies and training and this year’s ensemble demonstrated a strong range of capabilities across a wide spectrum of skill sets.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Few nineteenth-century story ballets are as satisfying as Giselle, with its simple and poetic plot, compact structure and starkly contrasting moods. This week I watched four Giselles, with four distinctly different casts...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Since becoming artistic director at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2011, Robert Battle has been steadily mixing up the company’s repertory, adding works by choreographers beyond its usual range: Paul Taylor, Ohad Naharin, and Wayne McGregor, to name just three.
To fully enjoy Ashton, one has to be willing to acquiesce to one’s own softer impulses, a sense of wonder and perhaps a little nostalgia, and to surrender the loveliness of small things.
At the outset I have to say I thought this year was one of the better years and we should all feel encouraged at the creativity on show.
...in the autumn of their dancing careers Acosta and Rojo put on a stunning display that brought many in the audience to their feet come the end.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Graham Watts, visited the Natalia Sats Theatre in Moscow, earlier this year, to talk to both Liepa and Isaakyan about their new production of Le Coq d’Or.
It’s a short programme but packed with memorable images, and brilliantly executed.