★★★★★ 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...
Reviews
Reviews of Dance and Ballet Performances
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?
★★★✰✰ 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.
★★★★✰ Cousins has made a bold, complex, intelligent and invigorating piece...
★★✰✰✰ 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.
★★★✰✰ 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.
★★★★✰ At first sight the two works in Aakash Odedra’s solo show at Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis Studio could hardly be more unalike.
★★★★★ Pita’s Salome is pure postmodern dance-theater, and a five-star surprise on the Opera House stage.
★★★✰✰ It's rather a scandal that Ballet Black get no regular Arts Council support and yet proportionally they do far more to put new work out there and also before a public that is not your usual ballet crowd.
★★★✰✰ The soloists and principals of San Francisco Ballet brought unique interpretations to George Balanchine classics for the company’s fourth program of the season, a varied survey of Balanchine’s oeuvre.
★★★✰✰ On Friday night, the title role was danced by EunWon Lee, a new name on the Washington Ballet’s roster...
★★★✰✰ Over two years after her retirement from New York City Ballet, Wendy Whelan remains a sight to behold.
★★★★★ The hour-long evening is a magical experience, a testament to the decades-long collaboration between Maliphant and Hulls...
★★★★★ The varied program included three dance works and one musical interlude. Each section was excellent...
★★★★✰ Those of a nervous disposition, look away now. The dark, twisted inventiveness of Arthur Pita runs riot across this double-bill of bad parenting, sweeping up murder, suicide, incest and a little light cannibalism as it goes.
★★★✰✰ Dreaming of Lions ...is an ambitious work, an hour-long, semi-abstract meditation on Ernest Hemingway’s tale of maritime endurance, The Old Man and the Sea.
★★★✰✰ The one thing you can be assured of when you step over the threshold of the Place's Resolution season is surprise.