reciting, along with modern bits of exposition to keep the audience informed of who’s who. Tuckett’s movement language is similarly diverse...
Reviews
Reviews of Dance and Ballet Performances
Just before intermission Simkin included two film-and-performance works by Alexander Ekman. Simkin and the City, which went viral with the Internet-savvy dance crowd a couple of years ago, always gets a good chuckle.
Benjamin Millepied, the new director of the Paris Opera Ballet, made a daring choice of programme for the Christmas season at the opulent Palais Garnier opera house: a triple bill of contemporary works...
Choreographer Gerald Casel describes his new work, Splinters in Our Ankles, as an exploration of the tinikling, a lively folk dance of the Philippines.
One of the most effective elements is also the most innovative: the inclusion of a dancer specializing in krumping...
The first time I saw San Francisco Ballet’s current production of The Nutcracker, a little boy sitting in front of us turned to his mother and whispered, “It’s magic!” Eleven years later, to the very day, it’s still a magical experience.
As with the Balanchine version, the Hard Nut’s success is a foregone conclusion.
English National Ballet has been dancing this ever-popular Russian classic in various guises each holiday season for the past 50 years, delighting audiences and inspiring youngsters...
It all makes for a captivating hour that will surely bring a tear to your eye.
Warmth, exuberance, power, finesse – all these qualities infuse everything they do.
It’s a modern and sometimes rather busy retelling, but it ends as every fairy tale should do...
It is an initiative that I hope will remain on the Sydney Dance Company calendar in the future.
This Nutcracker production has the best conclusion of any...
Acosta deserves every moment of his standing ovation...
Scottish Ballet are touring Christopher Hampson's "Cinderella" this Christmas - Graham Watts was at the European premiere in Edinburgh for DanceTabs...
Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker... has been described as a “symphony of childhood”; it is that, and more.
Dance on film is a tricky thing. On the one hand it provides a unique opportunity to see dance up close and to see foreign repertoires and artists; on the other, it lacks the intangible live chemistry that can electrify an opera house.
Every fall, just after Thanksgiving, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater sets up shop at City Center, as sure a sign of the season as Christmas carols at the grocery store.
Vintage Macintosh computers play a central role in Mainframe, a new evening-length dance-theater work by San Francisco choreographer Katherine Hawthorne.
There are many alternative Nutcrackers out there, but hands down, Nutcracker Rouge has got to be one of the all-time best.