★★★★★ Molina and her musicians capture flamenco’s traditional spirit and show its future...
Reviews
Reviews of Dance and Ballet Performances
★★★★✰ Golgota has a strong visual appeal, broadly consistent with the religious imagery in the paintings of El Greco and another 17th Century Spanish painter, Francisco de Zurbarán.
★★★★✰ Solo performances do not get more personal, or more powerful, than this.
★★★★✰ L’Immédiat is an exquisite work of physical theatre, combining acrobatics, pantomime and performance art.
★★★✰✰ I also note it was an all female choreographers bill - no big thing was made of this and that's just where we all need to get to.
★★★✰✰ In his staging of La Sylphide, Martins not only removes the intermission, thus shortening the performance time, he also accelerates the pace of the events. It feels as if the story rushes at you with...
★★★★✰ A former member of Trisha Brown’s troupe, Petronio staged Glacial as the second effort in his “Bloodlines” project, a series honouring his key influences...
★✰✰✰✰ This abstract, largely silent interpretation of As You Like It ( a Shakespeare comedy I have never seen danced before) was so unintelligible that I might as well have been hearing it spoken in Urdu.
★★★★✰ It’s a treat to be in the theater when a dancer achieves a triumphant performance...
★★★✰✰ Every gala needs a revelation, and this one was provided by Sergio Bernal, a Spanish dancer who dominated the stage in an imperious farruca solo from Antonio’s flamenco version of The Three Cornered Hat...
★★★✰✰ If the thought of getting out of your chair during a performance alarms you, Pepa Ubera’s The Palest Light is not the show for you.
★★✰✰✰ Far from being immortal, this production suffers from an acute identity crisis. I can’t recall another performance that has veered from so good to so awful...
★★★✰✰ The first of two mixed programs that New York City Ballet presented at the Kennedy Center Opera House in March offered a wide variety of works...
★★★✰✰ Flamenco is a difficult category to put your finger on these days; there are about as many approaches as there are dancers. But Joaquín Grilo is fairly old-school...
★★★★✰ Even without Khan’s charismatic presence Kaash is a fiercely physical and engrossing hour in the theatre...
★★★✰✰ It would be hard to find two more diverse works on the one program than those in CounterMove, the first program for 2016 from Sydney Dance Company.
★★★✰✰ All the pieces on the program were united by a common thread – the athleticism, authority and technical prowess of the company’s dancers...
★★★★✰ Flamenco singer Esperanza Fernández is the real deal, brought up in a family of flamenco artists in Seville’s famous Triana neighbourhood. Her voice is extraordinary...
★★★✰✰ Cadiz-born Marco Flores and cordobesa Olga Pericet make a striking flamenco couple – he is tall and lanky, with sedate, flowing movements; she’s tiny, barely reaching his chin, and bristling with energy.
★★★★✰ Lamb's mad scene is all the more effective by starting as though she’s a broken porcelain doll, uncomprehending. She retreats into her herself in disbelief at Albrecht’s treachery.