It is the final act that brings out the best in them. Vasiliev is abject, Cojacaru is truly touching, despairing and resolutely resolved to die.
Tag - Coliseum
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
English National Ballet Nutcracker London, Coliseum 11 December 2014 Gallery of pictures by Dave Morgan www.ballet.org.uk You know that Christmas is really on its way when you see your first Nutcracker. And for me, it has to be a traditional one, from its classical dancing and scenario to brightly varied costumes and characters. Despite a few quirky moments, English National Ballet’s production...
Alina Cojocaru and Alejandro Virelles were the lead dancers. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Full Details of the 2014 / 15 Season...
Overall, while an interesting night for them and those who know them, it wasn't a night that would garner them lots of new fans all hailing them as magnificent. For that you still need to catch them, if you can, doing their fireworks in the likes of Don Quixote...
Gallery by Dave Morgan of the Shiori Kase and Yonah Acosta cast
Some pictures of Coppelia coming together in the main English National Ballet studio, taken by ENB dancer, and well known photographer, Laurent Liotardo...
5 Questions to Shiori Kase. ENB soloist Shiori Kase is on a roll – only yesterday promoted to First Soloist (as of September), she's just won a Gold Medal at the prestigious Jackson International Ballet Competition in the USA and is about to make her debut in Coppelia...
Les Saisons Russes / Natalia Sats Opera & Ballet – Petrushka, Chopiniana, Polovtsian Dances – London
The triumph of the triple bill was the rip-roaring account of the Polovtsian Dances, with the choir exulting from boxes at the side of the Coliseum stage.
Only the official retirement age of 42 requires him to leave the company, alas, though he may be invited back as a guest.
...it’s very Russian in its mixture of comedy, satire and luscious spectacle – and first-class performances.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Graham Watts, visited the Natalia Sats Theatre in Moscow, earlier this year, to talk to both Liepa and Isaakyan about their new production of Le Coq d’Or.
Like it, or not, seeing Eifman's company is a very memorable thing.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
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...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
In his programme note, Bintley claims to have foregone sexual romance in favour of ‘something more mystical and subtle’, connected with Japanese veneration of its Imperial family. It doesn’t resonate in this royal kingdom.





