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So far this season I’ve seen three “traditional” Nutcrackers: Ratmansky’s version for American Ballet Theatre, Gelsey Kirkland’s, and the familiar and much-loved 1954 staging by George Balanchine for New York City Ballet. All three have their charms...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
While some of the views expressed may not chime with your own, the fascination of this book is to understand how contentious maintaining and developing ballet as vibrant theatre often is.
...Hallberg’s entrance drew gasps and shouts of ‘bravo’ from the audience. His magnificently stretched jetés soared through the air...
Novels are treacherous terrain for choreographers. So much of what draws us into a book and imprints itself in our imagination ...is almost impossible to convey in the language of the body.
I’m not ashamed to admit to a tear in my eye at the final curtain...
Despite the frequency with which the work is performed, the company manage to retain a warmth and freshness in their presentation of it.
Christopher Hampson's production, set to Engelbert Humperdinck's 1893 opera score, dances round traditional perceptions of good and evil, raising sinister notions about the invisibility of danger lurking in the real world.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
What made this Peter so right-feeling was that all elements of the show — storytelling, music, stage action — were so well integrated.
Baryshnikov has plenty of speaking lines, which he delivers with persuasion and notable dramatic skill... Yet his main strength here is his body language.
Another December, another Royal Ballet Nutcracker: anything new to report? Not much, no. And for once that's probably the answer most people are hoping to hear...
If you think about it, Nutcracker lends itself quite naturally to an erotic treatment. Coming of age story, voyage of discovery, fantasy playground filled with tantalizing delights
Gallery by Dave Morgan - Lauren Cuthbertson and Cory Stearns casting.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Shobana Jeyasingh has been celebrating her 25 years in dance during 2013 and this special anniversary is here marked by a double bill that presents works from the opposite ends of her dance company’s timeline.
So what’s new under the sun? It’s only been a couple of weeks since the least posting, so you’d think there’s not much to report. A bit of this a bit of that...
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