Outdoors Ballet – some different responses to Lockdown from around the world
As lockdown eases ballet is getting out of streaming from living rooms and into the big wide world – Jann Parry looks at six happenings/films involving dancers from Dance Theatre of Harlem, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Alonzo King LINES Ballet & The Royal Ballet
Alonzo King LINES Ballet – The Personal Element, Azoth – San Francisco
★★★★✰ A double-bill of compelling contemporary movement, the centerpiece of the performance was Azoth, a new collaboration between Artistic Director Alonzo King, tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd and composer/pianist Jason Moran.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet – Handel, Common Ground (world premiere with Kronos Quartet) – San Francisco
★★★★✰ For those dance fans who are also music devotees, this bill is a must see.
Interview – Annabelle Lopez Ochoa on creating Guernica for SF Ballet’s Unbound Festival
“I don’t know if we can make the world a better place, but we can definitely have the audience think about it.”
San Francisco Ballet – Unbound Festival Program A: works by Alonzo King, Christopher Wheeldon, Justin Peck – San Francisco
★★★★✰ If Helgi Tomasson was hoping that Unbound: A Festival of New Works would generate heated debate on the state of ballet today, his wish has already been fulfilled just one night into the massive festival…
Jeremy McQueen on his new company, Black Iris Project, and their debut programme of works in NY
Jeremy McQueen’s dance company, Black Iris Project, have their debut season at New York Live Arts this week – 27 & 28 July. Shanti Crawford spoke with the emerging choreographer about his new company, what drives them and the NY Live Arts bill.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet – The Propelled Heart – San Francisco
The Propelled Heart is a full-immersion experience, a wading into the waters of dance as a spiritual practice.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet – Biophony, Concerto for Two Violins – San Francisco
…for the world premiere of Biophony, King collaborated with the entire natural world….
Alonzo King Lines Ballet – Concerto for Two Violins, Men’s Quintet, Writing Ground – Cannes
A popular visitor to Cannes, the company was welcomed with a packed house for their new Triple Bill…
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo – LAC (after Swan Lake) – London
All up it’s an entertaining and chic-looking take on Swan Lake, and one where you don’t have to know the original to enjoy it. But I’m glad I have seen a pukka Swan Lake or three…
Alonzo King LINES Ballet – Concerto for Two Violins, Writing Ground – San Francisco
Quite by accident I ended up seeing LINES Ballet’s fall season twice. A good thing I did, too.
Hubbard Street Dance – Little mortal jump, Azimuth, Too Beaucoup – San Francisco
The dancers are really top-notch, razor-edge precise and boundlessly energetic, but limited to an eclectic vocabulary reflecting a Nederlands Dans Theater aesthetic…
Nancy Reynolds – George Balanchine Foundation – Director of Research
An in-depth interview with the lady who helps bring Balanchine back…
LINES Ballet – Constellation – San Francisco
Someone who has embodied King’s choreographic essence thoroughly in a few short years is Michael Montgomery. Everything he does feels completely natural, utterly effortless, like a child running freely, exploring his surroundings and his body without self-consciousness.
