Ultimately, it mattered less what Whelan and her collaborators were doing, and more that they were doing.
Archive - January 2015
If you really think about it, Swan Lake is, for lack of a better phrase, an odd duck...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
William Trevitt and Michael Nunn have taken their BalletBoyz company up a few gears with this latest work; pitching their 11 male dancers – and two guest women – into an intense, demanding, full-length piece exploring the horrors of war.
To watch Bournonville is to see visages of Marie Taglioni or Carlotta Grisi lifted straight from a lithograph, complete with the sloping shoulders, the torso tipping from the waist and the demure demeanor. As to the men, Bournonville gave them stuff to do,..
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Sunkyung Reina Jang: Korean National Ballet in The Seventh Symphony and The Rite of Spring
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...we really are short-changed in not seeing these dancers more regularly.
In an inspired collaboration with the World Music Institute, the Metropolitan presented two dancers from the southern-Indian ensemble Nrityagram, Surupa Sen and Bijayiny Satpathy, at the Temple of Dendur on Saturday.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
It is the final act that brings out the best in them. Vasiliev is abject, Cojacaru is truly touching, despairing and resolutely resolved to die.
Vu-An writes in the programme that he has chosen the two ballets Soir de Fete and Pas de Dieux to make up an entertaining and enjoyable programme for the festive season. However, he has chosen two very contrasting and rather curious works...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...