Gallery – Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan in Songs of the Wanderers
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
New York City Ballet – Spring Gala with American Rhapsody (Wheeldon premiere) – New York
★★★✰✰ It wouldn’t be spring without ballet galas. This week it was New York City Ballet’s turn. On the program were two new works, by Christopher Wheeldon and the relatively unknown Nicolas Blanc, the latter a veteran of the New York Choreographic Institute.
Izadora Weiss – Choreographer and AD of Baltic Dance Theatre, on her new Tristan and Isolde
Izadora Weiss’ latest work premieres on the 26 May in Baltic Dance Theatre’s home opera house at Gdansk and we look forward to reviewing it. In the meantime we wanted to know more about Tristan and Isolde and how the choreographer approaches dance making…
San Francisco Ballet – Onegin – San Francisco
★★★★✰ Created in 2010 for the National Ballet of Canada, this production of the late John Cranko’s 1965 ballet was a smash here in 2012; it was reprised in 2013 and it’s wonderful to have it back again so soon.
Dance Umbrella Launches 2016 Festival – 7-22 Oct 2016
The programme for Dance Umbrella 2016 has been announced today by Emma Gladstone, Artistic Director and Chief Executive, taking place in 16 venues across London from 7 – 22 October 2016.
Youth America Grand Prix – Gala 2016 – New York
★★✰✰✰ Like all galas, this was quite a mixed bag. Over 200 students trooped on and offstage in a veritable tornado of activity before the veteran YAGP dancers stepped out for the showstopping stuff…
New York City Ballet – Jewels: Emeralds, Rubies, Diamonds – New York
★★★✰✰ What do you do with a problem like Jewels? This 1967 blockbuster by George Balanchine is a hard one to pull off…
Australian Ballet – Symphony in C, divertissements and new works bill – Sydney
★★★✰✰ The first thing to say about Symphony in C is that the Australian Ballet’s corps and soloists had been rehearsed and coached with technical perfection in mind and there was little to fault with their execution of the steps.
