★★✰✰✰ Marie Chouinard certainly has interesting and original ideas - hurrah for that - but an editor would really help make the best of them sparkle.
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★★★✰✰ The beefiest work on the program was a New York premiere, Thousand Yard Stare, a work honoring war veterans...
★★★✰✰ Have you ever left a performance of contemporary ballet desperate for some color, some light, some human warmth?
★★★✰✰ I give it 3 stars because when you do see Pite's movement it's amazing, but in any other hands this was a 2 star night.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★✰✰ IDFB is great for Birmingham and I hope those in and around the city filled their boots.
"He lived a life of excess and theatrical flare!" Kenneth Tindall on Casanova.
★★★✰✰ Overall, the impression was of a company in top form, at ease in a variety of styles. The dancers have an easy-going, open demeanor that makes even the knottiest works look more appealing.
★★★✰✰ When I think of Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) under David Bintley I think of tradition with a capital T and the latest double bill underlines that in spades.
★★★★✰ DanceTabs reviewed the Scottish Ballet premiere of Cinderella and now we catch up with the last show of the season - which also happened to be Eve Mutso's last performance with the company.
2015 National Dance Awards – The Nominations Gallery of awards pictures Press release 25 January 2016 The 16th National Dance Awards The Place, London: 25th January 2016 The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards for 2015 were presented today at a ceremony in London, hosted by Arlene Phillips CBE. Unusually, the judges decided to give two De Valois Awards for Outstanding Achievement in 2015 to...
Press Release: 15 Jan 2016 www.scottishballet.co.uk Scottish Ballet Unveils Ambitious 2016/17 Programme Building on a prolific period of creativity, Scottish Ballet sets out an ambitious programme for 2016/17, continuing to innovate and cultivate new dance and delivering cutting edge creative projects. Spring 2016: World premiere of new Swan Lake by David Dawson Scottish Ballet has a...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
While this is a generalization, it’s safe to say the most hotly anticipated work of the night was Pite’s Polaris, set to Adès’ work of the same name.
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the nominations for the 16th National Dance Awards,
Scottish Ballet's autumn bill is an uplifting affair with everything on it new to the company...
If it was up to me, I would pay more [salary] to the corps than to the principals. Half the ballet depends on them, and it is very hard to be in a good mood and trying your hardest every day when you are not getting the attention and the development that we get as principals and soloists.
If the brand new works were something of a disappointment then Crystal Pite's A Picture of You Falling, created on her own company dancers in 2008, was the outstanding hit.
Sadler's Wells puts on a night of dance by 3 of their Associate Artists. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…