★★★★✰ The great pleasure of Alexei Ratmansky’s version of Vasily Vainonen’s 1932 ballet is the cornucopia of steps to which both choreographers had access: danse d’école, folk and character dances, as well as expressive acting.
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Reviews of Dance and Ballet Performances
★★★✰✰ NIJINSKI neatly lassos this altogether using Goecke’s avant garde movement style ...to give the Stuttgart audience an abstract impression of Nijinsky’s life and contribution to Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.
★★★★✰ The performers need the sharpest of reactions to deal with the unexpected, negotiating routes through bemused and bedazzled spectators.
★★★✰✰ Maillot’s ballet... belongs to Krysanova and Lantratov, who succeed in conveying that Kate and Petruchio are wildly, equally in love, however crassly they treat each other...
★★★✰✰ Every choreographer has their voice, and if Wheeldon’s current oeuvre satisfies you then this will too, but don’t expect a significant departure.
★★★✰✰ According to the programme notes for Yuri Grigorovich’s 2001 account of Swan Lake, his Prince Siegfried is a ‘ballet Lohengrin’ – a Knight of the White Swan. The production is all about him.
★★★★✰ Natalie Weir's "We who are left" is nothing less than a knockout.
Jean Abreu Dance Labirinto (based on A Thread) ★★★✰✰ London, Horniman Museum and Gardens 28 July 2016 www.jeanabreudance.com www.horniman.ac.uk The Horniman Museum and Gardens contains eclectic collections of artefacts from around the world, including a huge overstuffed walrus much loved by generations of south London children. In the run-up to the Olympics it has been hosting a series of...
★★★★✰ Sixteen choreographers, 13 new works, 2 dancers, 70 minutes, 4 years in the making. That's the equation for Double Exposure, premiered by the San Francisco contemporary-dance duo RAWdance on Thursday, July 28. It's an epic production that is greater than the sum of its parts.
★★★★✰ Vega has assembled an impressive team for the first leg of her new dance company’s journey. However, she is the talisman throughout.
L.A. Dance Project Harbor Me, Marth Graham duets (White, Star, Moon), Helix, On the Other Side ★★★✰✰ New York, Joyce Theater 27 July 2016 www.ladanceproject.com www.joyce.org LA Story Since his quick exit from the Paris Opera Ballet, the choreographer and former director Benjamin Millepied has recommitted himself to the small Los-Angeles-based company he founded in 2012, L.A. Dance Project. The...
★★★★✰ The Bolshoi’s Don Quixote continues to delight for the exuberance and skill of its range of performers, with the corps de ballet and demi-soloists taking pride of place.
★★★✰✰ ...the production lurches between down-to-earth Aussie niceness and the designer’s European conceits...
★★★✰✰ Australian Ballet (AB) must surely be the only significant ballet company in the world with two Swan Lakes in their active repertoire. Strangely, the one we've seen before in Britain we have just been seeing again...
★★✰✰✰ There is a great deal of ambition in the latest show from the superlative flamenco guitarist, composer and producer Paco Peña.
★★★★✰ The Royal Ballet School in particular includes something very special in their show - the closing Grand Defile, which always brings a lump to the throat and a feeling of pride.
★★★✰✰ Twyla Tharp is a kind of dance wizard – steps pour out of her like torrents in a waterfall.
★★✰✰✰ A psychology degree might have been helpful in analysing Hofesh Shechter’s first triple bill; here returning to Sadler’s Wells where it premiered, last September.
From ★★★★’s to ★ Works by Adriana Borriello, Lara Russo, Camilla Monga, Gabriel Schenker, Yasmin Hugonnet, Albert Quesada and Daniel Linehan
★★★✰✰ What is different is the profound impact of Weiss’s choreography over this sixty-minute piece. Her movement is always busy and intensely musical but generally it is a means to an end...