Studio 5: Great American Ballerinas – the City Center virtual series of master classes
New York City Center is streaming some ballet master classes, curated and hosted by Alastair Macaulay, and involving Misty Copeland, Sara Mearns and Tiler Peck. The coaches/guests include Nina Ananiashvili, Merrill Ashley, Alessandra Ferri, Stephanie Saland and Pam Tanowitz.
Nederlands Dans Theater – Paul Lightfoot and Sol León lockdown streamed premieres
★★★★✰ / ★★★★★ If there have been better examples of substantial dance films made during these trying times then I have yet to see them.
English National Ballet School – Virtual Summer Performance 2020
★★★★★ Choreographers (Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Didy Veldman, Andrew McNicol) and performers are providing us with amazing records of what they can achieve in the strangest of times.
Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble – premiere of the online version of Anna Sokolow’s Rooms
★★★★✰ Rooms2020 retains Sokolow’s intensely expressive choreography, which makes it a striking documentation of the aloneness and alienation that can pervade this time of pandemic.
English National Ballet – Cinderella – streamed archive recording of 2019 performance
★★★✰✰ Wheeldon has woven a lot of narrative threads into his ballet spectacular.
Gallery – SystemsLAB mixed bill curated by Freddie Opoku-Addaie
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou. Features the following artists: Theo Inart, Becky Namgauds, Ffion Campbell-Davies, Tyrone Isaac-Stuart (tyroneisaacstuart) and Jonzi D
Dutch National Ballet – 8 new digital works streamed to the world during lockdown
Dutch National Ballet, under director Ted Brandsen, have made a splendid response to COVID-19, streaming 8 new digital dances in the last 3 months. Graham Watts on many interesting and absorbing works, varying from ★★✰✰✰ to ★★★★★
Royal Ballet – Woolf Works – streamed archive recording of 2017 performance
★★★✰✰ Wayne McGregor’s first full-length creation for the Royal Ballet, Woolf Works, inspired by Virginia Woolf, remains one of his best works to date.
English National Ballet – Manon – streamed archive recording of 2018 performance
★★★★★ What we are fortunate to be able to witness in these constrained times is an intimate record of otherwise fleeting performances by exceptional artists.
Smuin Contemporary Ballet – Indigo – streamed archive recording of 2016 performance
★★★★✰ Indigo is one of those dances that doesn’t seem totally abstract, yet doesn’t follow a linear path either. It’s more about concept and emotions. Layers and extremes. Just like the colour indigo itself.
Royal Opera House/Royal Ballet – Live from Covent Garden: Third Concert (27 June)
★★★★✰ The singers had the lions’ share of the concert, with just two pas de deux by Royal Ballet couples, Matthew Ball and Mayara Magri, Reece Clarke and Fumi Kaneko.
