Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
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Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
At the outset I have to say I thought this year was one of the better years and we should all feel encouraged at the creativity on show.
...in the autumn of their dancing careers Acosta and Rojo put on a stunning display that brought many in the audience to their feet come the end.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
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.
It’s a short programme but packed with memorable images, and brilliantly executed.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Ballet Ireland have danced several times in London but never at Sadler's Wells and never with the Irish ambassador as a warm-up, I fancy.
I was finding it to be a consolation that the work would only last for 45 minutes and a fairly lacklustre reception from a far-from-full auditorium suggests that I wasn’t alone in welcoming the end.
In the Royal Ballet's last programme for this season two old favourites frame the first performances of Alastair Marriott's latest work, Connectome. It's a well-balanced evening and gives the new piece every chance to shine.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Including a low-key pilot at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe of 2012, the 'Flash Mob' brand is now into its third iteration, and I must immediately confess to liking this show less than either of its predecessors.
...while I may have successfully held my own for the first two rounds, I’d been soundly beaten by the end.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Of all the school shows I most appreciate the one by Central School of Ballet. Their show, under the name Ballet Central, invariably has the widest range of dance, from ballet to contemporary to musical theatre and more. And importantly they tour it...
Although his movement is as unfussy as dress-down Friday, in the bedroom and tomb scenes he delivers handsome images of love and grief.
All up this was a solid night and a good complement to ENB's 'Lest We Forget' (WW1) bill that was so recently on the main Barbican stage. But I hope that next year they return to a more open choice on what choreographers can do and also concentrate on choreography rather than include musical soiree interludes.
The unclassifiable can be good fun. That’s the lesson from Hetain Patel’s new solo show at the Lilian Baylis Studio.