★★★✰✰ Elisa Badenes and Cesar Corrales delivered a good professional show, if it was not the runaway success I had perhaps hoped for.
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Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ The ballet’s narrative interest depends on the dancer, and both performers are magnificent – different in tone and physicality, though not markedly so.
Mara Galeazzi cast. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Gallery by Lidia Crisafulli...
★★★★✰ The magic in this production isn’t simply its bewitching ambience but also its harnessing of centuries-old themes in a way that resonates today.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ Bausch with added balls.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★★✰ ZooNation's "The Mad Hatter's Tea Party" has come a long way as a thoughtful Royal Opera House alternative to the Royal Ballet's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".
★★★★✰ The grand pas de deux was the triumphant highlight of the fairytale festivities. Hay expressed the prince’s pride and pleasure in his variations; Takada was demure and regal in hers...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories from the past year...
★★★✰✰ 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...
Though Rauschenberg’s designs have no apparent connection with the dances they accompany, and even compete for the audience’s attention, they have become inescapably part of the experience of each work.
★★★✰✰ If you remember the 1948 film, the plot is easy to follow. If you don’t, and can’t pick up the references to ballets, a printed scenario would be helpful, as would job-descriptions of the characters...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ The Little Match Girl is small-scale, but it’s pretty spectacular all the same – a sweet and witty alternative to the typical Christmas family fare.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ In truth, the ballet is up and down (or, more accurately, down and up) for, overall, the second act is a huge improvement on the first.