Blue lips, blue shoes, and toi toi toi’s
A huge welcome to Araminta Wraith, Scottish Ballet soloist and DanceTabs guest blogger during this, the companies 50th anniversary season.
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!
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 – 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…
Scottish Ballet – Each Other (premiere) – Glasgow
★★★★✰ Each Other makes you reflect and think – and it deserves to be seen much more widely.
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.
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.
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.
Scottish Ballet – Maze, Motion of Displacement, Elsa Canasta – Glasgow
Scottish Ballet’s autumn bill is an uplifting affair with everything on it new to the company…
Interview – Alexander Whitley, Choreographer and Director
5 Questions to Alexander Whitley on his up and coming premiere, Frames, for Rambert. It gets unveiled in Glasgow on the 5 March and then tours. All you need to know from the man himself…
Scottish Ballet – Ten Poems, The Crucible – Glasgow
Scottish Ballet’s new double bill features ballets by experienced choreographers about two not-so-different communities: small-town Wales and narrow-minded Salem…
The Cottier Dance Project – Glasgow, 22-27 June
Glasgow’s West End Festival gets a dance component this year – curator Freya Jeffs tells all on the plans…
Scottish Ballet – Romeo & Juliet – Glasgow
Perhaps it’s the case that our receptors for beauty lie close in the brain to those for horror: what else could explain how a story about two young lovers dying a needless, violent death should be so passionately, tragically beautiful.
Scottish Ballet – Hansel and Gretel (premiere) – Glasgow
Christopher Hampson’s production, set to Engelbert Humperdinck’s 1893 opera score, dances round traditional perceptions of good and evil, raising sinister notions about the invisibility of danger lurking in the real world.
Scottish Ballet – The Rite of Spring, Elite Syncopations – Glasgow
An imaginatively contrasting double-bill, it pulled in audiences and left them buzzing.
Genée International Ballet Competition 2013 – Glasgow
The Genée International Ballet Competition 2013 was held in Glasgow this year – Jann Parry reports on the finals for us…
Scottish Ballet – Highland Fling – Glasgow
A hit with me and I’m so glad it’s a great success in the company’s home and a great calling card for touring. It’s a particularly useful broadening of Scottish Ballet’s repertoire.
Rosie Kay – Choreographer and Company Director
5 Questions for Rosie Kay – catching up on her latest work and new role as Artist in Residence at the Biocultural Variation and Obesity unit, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford.
Christopher Hampson – Scottish Ballet – Artistic Director
…you are pushing the work of female choreographers – where does that spring from?
Scottish Ballet Plans under New Director Christopher Hampson
At a press conference held today, 12 September 2012, at Scottish Ballet headquarters in Glasgow and online to media across the world, Chief Executive Cindy Sughrue and incoming Artistic Director Christopher Hampson unveiled forthcoming plans and aspirations for the future of the company.
