From start to finish this Nutcracker ...is a true Christmas gift for children and adults alike – one of the most satisfying versions of the holiday classic I have ever seen.
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People talk about wanting to get new and younger audiences in for dance and this was really a great way of achieving it.
Sitting through both a matinée and an evening performance of the 14th Annual San Francisco International Hip Hop DanceFest on November 18th is the perfect antidote to the memorial service I attended the day before. Both celebrate life...
As a young partnership Delia Mathews and Tyrone Singleton really are exceptionally good.
36 pictures by Dave Morgan...
Rawlins, 39, shared the numerous curtain calls with Colin Peasley, who must surely have broken some records for the longest full-time dancing career with one ballet company in history. His first appearance with the Australian Ballet was in Swan Lake in November 1962...
There were revelations on-screen, too. ...How many first-time spectators spot that the Biedermeyer-period Christmas cake in the Act 1 party provides the marzipan-and-icing set for Act II?
This wasn’t Shiori Kase's debut in the role, but it was remarkably polished and complete for one so young.
....the performance done, Muntagirov was promoted live on stage by new Director Tamara Rojo to the highest rank in the company - Lead Principal. A pleasant surprise, but in fact no surprise at all - it was only ever a question of time.
...a one-man show from a former Cirque du Soleil clown intrigued for being targeted at the entire family at a time when everybody does Nutcrackers and I'm feeling crackered out. You might well be too, so read on...
...it’s remarkable how satisfying the old-fashioned virtues of structure and form can be.
Now Is All There Is - Bodies in Motion, is an exhibition of 34 stylized images of Royal Ballet dancers taken by photographer Rick Guest.
Most of the dancers on stage tonight were not even born when the Royal Ballet' s current Nutcracker production was new, and many of the audience too may imagine that it's been a feature of the Christmas season forever...
"While this may not be a Nutcracker for those looking for subtlety or sophistication, it’s a fun show designed to thrill adults as well as children.
And together, Kuranaga and Cirio make a superb couple, performing with such sensitive musicality and balanced unison that it sometimes seems you’re watching a single composite creature.
Not to be a scrooge-ish Grinch (or is it a grinchy Scrooge?), but I don’t really like all the sentimental and consumeristic trimmings and trappings that surround the holidays.
All Aboard! Peter Schaufuss’s Midnight Express Rolls into the London Coliseum 9th-14th April Olivier and Evening Standard award winning dancer, director and choreographer Peter Schaufuss today announces the production’s UK debut. The dance world’s most original choreographer partners with its most outspoken young star in an adaptation of Billy Hayes’s smash hit book...
36 pictures by Dave Morgan...
He knows he can’t surpass Petipa (or Ivanov for 'Swan Lake') – but he can tweak their scenarios into something uniquely his own. And he’s magnificently served by a cast of just 17, capable of switching roles at the twitch of a fairy’s wing.
In many respects Abraham's 'Another Night' is a typical Ailey work: its score is upbeat, its costumes are colorful and the dancing is fast and athletic.