The second night... this was by far the best program I’ve ever seen Ailey offer: five pieces, each as good as the others in its different way...
Archive - March 2015
The Board of Scottish Ballet announces today, Monday 30 March 2015, that, for personal reasons, Cindy Sughrue, is stepping down...
It’s a truism that any startlingly new dance-maker without an early elite training will have based his (or her) choreography on their own physique...
Nothing can ignite a cowboy’s imagination better than the fluttery ruffles of a voluminous skirt...
As always, it's a pleasure to see the Joffrey Ballet, especially since 2007 when artistic director Ashley Wheater assumed his post and began a terrific revival of the company...
The opening and closing pieces showed how skilfully Cohan responds to dancers whose training and experience are very different from the Graham-based technique on which he drew for many decades.
Karole Armitage is in a groove, and it's environmental. On the Nature of Things, presented at the American Museum of Natural History, is her latest in a string of works addressing the all too rapid ecological devastation humans are wreaking on the planet.
Contemporary dance pioneer Shobana Jeyasingh takes a bold, inspired step along her chosen route of exploring marginality and difference with this latest Royal Ballet commissioned work.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
David Nixon must be able to lay claim to being the most prolific creator of full-length narrative ballets at work today...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Like ENB at large, the eight finalists for 2015 are a noticeably international bunch, representing Germany, America, Ukraine, Brazil, China and the UK between them.
IMHO, there is no better story-telling choreographer around today....
ODC boasts world-class contemporary dancers, and they moved with weight, intention and a compelling tenderness...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
The Paul Taylor Dance Company, rechristened Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance, is in the midst of its yearly three-week New York run at the Koch Theater. This is a pivotal time for the company...
All three performances brought home the fact that this is a very strong company with the skills to perform any choreography that comes its way...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Principal dancers Mathilde Froustey and Carlos Quenedit were exactly what the audience wanted on opening night.