The final triple bill of the Royal Ballet’s season reverts to its founder’s faith in classical ballet as an expressive language.
Archive - May 2015
Perhaps the most striking element in Alexei Ratmansky’s new Sleeping Beauty for American Ballet Theatre is its musicality, the way the steps, peppered with accents and breaths, unspool within the music.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Ben Duke opens his one-man show disarmingly by losing his place in his copy of Milton’s Paradise Lost...
The whole evening has the feeling of an extended experiment. We see Whelan ridding herself of ballerina habits and trying on new clothes.
Les Rendezvous is 21 minutes of classical movement perfection, but Alexander Whitley comes surprisingly close to besting it with his 20-minute more modern take on ballet - Kin.
In her début as the Sylph, Lovette was warm, soft, enticing, more child-like than enigmatic.
Gallery by John Mallinson...
So how did it go with the young audience? Answer, jolly well...
The American Ballet Theatre season continues with Giselle where Marina Harss saw Stella Abrera's company debut. The response to the performance was understandably enthusiastic.
Fortuity was an exceptional program showing in particular the range of Elizabeth Cameron Dalman's choreographic output...
The joint home will be based at London City Island E14, a new neighbourhood from Eco World Ballymore. The development is a short distance from Canning Town and adjoins Trinity Buoy Wharf...
What, you may wonder, is the point of it all?
Clark has spent two years on his “happiness project”, working with a psychoanalyst amongst others to investigate the causes and manifestations of happiness but...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
American Ballet Theatre know how to do a Gala and this was their 75th Anniversary as well - Everybody seemed to have a good time says Marina Harss...
Johan Kobborg took over as Director of Bucharest National Ballet just over a year ago. Time for Graham Watts to go and see how they are looking - in two very different bills...
Boris Charmatz, dancer, choreographer and provocateur curated this two day festival bringing dance performance into the art gallery. Gallery by John Mallinson...
From the show flyer... "Rotunda features the beautiful collision of a live brass band with the raw power of contemporary dance, timed to honour the Gallipoli landings in 1915..."
Boston Ballet closed its season with a generous offering of four ballets spanning almost 70 years... and including a world premiere and two company premieres...