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Archive - March 2017
★✰✰✰✰ Dancers roam around the stage connecting, disconnecting, clinging and separating in a drifting non-specific haze of memories. Who are the exes, who are the friends? Who are the never-weres? Who knows.
★★★★★ One cannot help but observe that while the programmes of other companies both hit and miss, in terms of their critical appreciation and popular appeal, ENB is continually raising the bar...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Paul Taylor American Modern Dance & Lyon Opera Ballet – Icons: Graham, Cunningham, Taylor – New York
★★★★✰ Sunday night, the New York dance scene flocked to see three of America’s dance pioneers side by side in “Icons: Graham, Cunningham, Taylor.
★★★★★ The ballet is a triumph, of course. It really is... Wheeldon and his collaborators have reclaimed the Gershwins’ music and songs for a five-star production...
Flight Pattern: ★★★★★, After the Rain: ★★★✰✰, Human Seasons: ★★✰✰✰. Like Gorecki, Crystal Pite has created a memorable and moving work full of meaning...
★★★★✰ What is it about Esplanade that makes us so elated, so satisfied, so moved?
Trisha Brown leaves the most enormous legacy of repertoire and ideas, such that it is impossible to imagine the development of modern dance without her...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ Be careful what you wish for. The Boy in Alexei Ratmansky’s Whipped Cream wishes for unlimited sweets; overfulfillment sends him to the hospital with sugar hallucinations.
★★★★✰ The long gala (three and a half hours with one interval) was well organised, with no speeches and no protracted curtain calls.
The Royal Ballet in perhaps the most eagerly anticipated premiere of the season - Crystal Pite's "Flight Pattern". Also on the bill are Christopher Wheeldon's "After the Rain" and David Dawson's "Human Seasons". Dave Morgan was at the photocall for us...
★★★★✰ Cousins has made a bold, complex, intelligent and invigorating piece...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★✰✰✰ I begin this notice with a codicil. Let this preamble show my unbounded admiration for the spirit and rationale of Project Polunin.
★★★★✰ Tree of Codes ...shows McGregor as an out-and-out showman who dazzles us senseless with design, music, dancers and dance. I'm not sure if he really planned it that way, but I'll take it every time.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★✰✰ A final poem, ‘Man Down’, calls for compassion and acceptance that we are all combinations of male and female. The message is in the words rather than in the bodies of the dancers.