★★★✰✰ The Siberian company performs its Fille mal gardée with good heart and neat feet.
Archive - January 2017
★★★✰✰ The portraits are probably not a way into dance for someone who wasn’t already interested – and it’s probably better to watch them in small doses. However, they do remind us of something rather lovely...
★★★✰✰ The story line becomes as labyrinthine as the ribbons of tape that criss-cross Paul’s bedroom.
Malta’s national contemporary dance company, ŻfinMalta Dance Ensemble, are touring to the UK for the first time - we have a word with Artistic Director Mavin Khoo...
★★★✰✰ Elisa Badenes and Cesar Corrales delivered a good professional show, if it was not the runaway success I had perhaps hoped for.
★★★✰✰ More than anything, Peck's "The Times are Racing" reminded me of the movie Rebel Without a Cause. These kids are uneasy, but what is the object of their unease?
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ The company’s first regular-season commission from Czech choreographer Jiří Bubeníček, "Fragile Vessels", is a 40-minute meditation on love, loss and reconciliation.
★★★✰✰ Alongside George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, one could argue that the third most important voice at New York City Ballet in the twentieth century was that of Igor Stravinsky.
★★★✰✰ The ballet’s narrative interest depends on the dancer, and both performers are magnificent – different in tone and physicality, though not markedly so.
★★✰✰✰ BODYTRAFFIC, the Los Angeles-based contemporary dance troupe, drew a robust crowd to the Joyce on Friday night.
Mara Galeazzi cast. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★★✰ Sara Mearns, who made her name as Swan Queen at the age of nineteen, is still the most thrilling Odette around.
★★★★✰ ...a great communal effort by the whole company and one that stretches out to embrace kids in the cities it plays to - showing new generations how relevant and effortlessly entertaining ballet can be.
Gallery by Lidia Crisafulli...
★★★★✰ The magic in this production isn’t simply its bewitching ambience but also its harnessing of centuries-old themes in a way that resonates today.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ Bausch with added balls.
★★★★✰ Maillot has succeeded in giving perhaps the most authentic retelling of Perrault’s story in dance with his tale of love overcoming the darkest evil...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...