5 Questions to Sophie Laplane – a Scottish Ballet Artist in Residence – about her new work, Dextera
Sophie Laplane, former company dancer, is now a Scottish Ballet Artist in Residence and her first main stage commission opens the companies 2019 season in Inverness on the 28 March, before touring to Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. We catch up with her about the new work and what else she is up to…
Scottish Ballet – Cinderella – Glasgow
★★★★✰ This is my second review of Scottish Ballet’s Cinderella this winter. Why? Well, it’s a production I like and I wanted to see more dancers in it, silly!
Scottish Ballet – Cinderella – Edinburgh
★★★★✰ The cast I saw at the first performance of this year’s Christmas touring season were the best (Ugly) Step-Sisters I’ve ever seen – take a bow Constance Devernay and Aisling Brangan.
Gallery – Scottish Ballet’s 50th Anniversary Season Launch in London
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Christopher Hampson, Scottish Ballet’s Director, on celebrating the companies 50th anniversary in 2019 & future plans
Scottish Ballet have just announced plans for their Fiftieth Anniversary in 2019, including three world premieres – we have the full press release and touch-base with CEO/Artistic Director Christopher Hampson about the celebrations and what happens beyond…
Scottish Ballet – Highland Fling – Lerwick
★★★★★ What Scottish Ballet wanted to do was take the full experience out to the Highlands and Islands. So the good folks in Lerwick (capital of the Shetland Isles, population 7,500) saw was the same show they got in Edinburgh and Glasgow…
Scottish Ballet – The Fairy’s Kiss, The Rite of Spring – Glasgow
★★★★✰ Absolutely fascinating… Scottish Ballet should feel very proud of celebrating MacMillan in such a thoughtful way…
Mikhailovsky Ballet – Cinderella – St. Petersburg
★★★★★ It seems appropriate that I’ve travelled to Russia to find a Cinderella interpreter of movement and spectacle to match up to the genius of Prokofiev’s music.
Bringing back Kenneth MacMillan’s Le Baiser de la fée – The Fairy’s Kiss
Scottish Ballet will be performing Kenneth MacMillan’s “Le Baiser de la fée” as part of the celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of his death. It will be the first revival of the ballet in 30 years – Jann Parry on the return of an important work.
Scottish Ballet – Emergence, MC 14/22 (Ceci est mon corps) – London
★★★★✰ Both are pre-existing ensemble works, the performers virtually anonymous on stage, though named on cast sheets: the company is the star, not the soloists.
Scottish Ballet – Each Other (premiere) – Glasgow
★★★★✰ Each Other makes you reflect and think – and it deserves to be seen much more widely.
Scottish Ballet – Sinfonietta Giocosa, Motion of Displacement, Ten Poems – New York
★★★★✰ Scottish Ballet came ready to impress, and impress it did.
2016 National Dance Awards – Winners Announced
The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards for 2016 were presented today at a ceremony in London, hosted by Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy MBE and Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, the creative team behind the highly successful dance company, Boy Blue Entertainment.
Scottish Ballet – Hansel and Gretel – Glasgow
★★★★✰ …a great communal effort by the whole company and one that stretches out to embrace kids in the cities it plays to – showing new generations how relevant and effortlessly entertaining ballet can be.
English National Ballet – Nutcracker – London
★★★✰✰ For all the recent innovations that Tamara Rojo has brought to the English National Ballet, including three stunning full-evening programmes of her own devising, the Nutcracker is still the heart of every season…
Scottish Ballet – Emergence, Sibilo, Drawn to Drone – Glasgow
★★★★★ It’s perhaps a term too often used, but “It doesn’t get better than this” is what came immediately to mind at the end.
5 Questions to Sophie Laplane on her latest work for Scottish Ballet – Sibilo
Scottish Ballet’s Autumn 2016 double bill features a world premiere, “Sibilo”, by company dancer and choreographer Sophie Laplane – her first main stage commission. So what does “Sibilo” mean? – read on to find out that and more…
Scottish Ballet – Emergence, MC 14/22 (Ceci est mon corps) – Edinburgh
★★★★✰ Outside London Scottish Ballet’s sense of adventure makes them the UK company to watch…
Scottish Ballet – Swan Lake (Dawson premiere) – Glasgow
★★★✰✰ Sophie Martin’s Odette/Odille, despite the costume, steals the show with layers of dramatic nuance on top of the pushed lines of Dawson’s steps.
Ballet Black – Cristaux, To Begin, Begin, Storyville – London
★★★★✰ I’ve long admired Ballet Black’s efforts to make ballet a more accessible art form to both dancers and audiences who’ve historically been excluded from it.
