...he, as the solo dancer in the show, is the dominating and controlling force. But much of the joy in the performance comes from the musicians he shares the stage with...
Reviews
Reviews of Dance and Ballet Performances
The choreographer Mark Morris has said that he decided he wanted to become a dancer when, as a kid, he saw a performance by the flamenco powerhouse José Greco.
Miguel Poveda is impossibly boyish for a man who recently passed his 41st birthday...
The reality is that the work's central premise – that we are all irredeemably bad at understanding or respecting one another – seems to have greater resonance today than at any point since the bad old days...
Candoco completely embodies the essence of diversity in the human condition. I love the emphasis of its strapline being “The Company of Disabled and Non-Disabled Dancers”.
The Perm Ballet has become a regular fixture in France over the past six years... the company embarks every winter on a countrywide tour akin to a Ballets Russes expedition. This year, they visited 19 different venues...
Boris Eifman can never be accused of shying away from the obvious... His representation of the life and times of Auguste Rodin creates spectacular and absorbing dance theatre...
Watching these three ballets, made over a span of thirty-two years, one can see how Balanchine’s style evolved toward the hyper-stylization of Violin Concerto...
There's a thread connecting the elemental ancient to the here and now, trailing slowly but firmly through Scottish Dance Theatre's double bill of new works.
The evening offered a sampler of Morris’s newly-minted works (A Wooden Tree, Jenn and Spencer and Crosswalk, all made in 2012-13) and his splendid Italian Concerto from 2007.
Now in its thirteenth year, Ballet Black’s specialness is not the colour of its performers’ skin but the quality and quantity of the works its director, Cassa Pancho, commissions: over 30 new ballets to date. Where else could ballet dancers experience such a cornucopia of creativity?
Most of this run of performances was sold out, or very nearly so, so the Copenhagen audience evidently appreciates what Hubbe is doing. To me, though, this latest revision of Napoli felt like a step too far...
....thanks and admiration to Francesca Hayward for a blithe, swift Songbird Fairy, probably the most pleasing I've ever seen...
Les Nuits is inspired by the Thousand and One Nights, stories which have come together from Indian, Persian, Arabian and North African sources. Preljocaj is quoted as being influenced by the erotic content of the stories...
Cloud Gate's lotuses set the scene for a lengthy work which is meditative, poetic and often beautiful to look at.
Elo's Close to Chuck ...this is a wonderful ballet and, I predict, a permanent addition to the repertory.
This is top-notch, thoughtful and satisfyingly un-sensational dance drama.
It would appear that Blaze is to hip hop as Burn the Floor has been to the popularity of ballroom and Latin...
George Balanchine’s favorite composers may have been Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky, but it’s no secret that he also had an affinity for France and its music...
These are not purely dance performances, but an imaginative and original mixture of dance, mime, marionettes, illusion, music, light and sound effects...