5 Questions to Mark Bruce about his up and coming premiere and UK tour of 'Dracula'....
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Seeing dancers dance up close is a very good thing says Bruce Marriott. So is following them around the East End in a ghostly Victorian world...
"Alexei Ratmansky’s Flames of Paris is a lot like Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake..." starts Jann Parry's review...
20 pictures by Dave Morgan of the Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev cast.
20 pictures by Dave Morgan
"It is performed with great commitment..." says Lynette Halewood of a Jayne Eyre ruthlessly pruned for dance...
The Bolshoi’s glorious rising star, Olga Smirnova, was imperious...
20 pictures by Foteini Christofilopoulou
I said it was the must-see show of the year in 2008, and – while there are a lot of great musicals now around in the West End today - this is still one that must be seen.
...but the production isn’t so interested in motivation, more in grand effects, and those were delivered. It was a glittering, ostentatious performance, though not one to catch the heart.
Svetlana Zakharova cast - 20 pictures by Foteini Christofilopoulou
Grigorovich’s staging of Act III is masterly. He has the fakirs lull Solor into an opium-induced sleep in a setting that lifts away to reveal a rocky arch. Within it Solor sees a vision of Nikiya enticing him into a ballet blanc nirvana
Evgenia Obraztsova, Anna Tikhomirova, Alexander Volchkov and Semyon Chudin, Olga Smirnova casts - 20 pictures
his diverse selection of 17 works (including musical interludes) is a gala in all but name and this one could have been sub-titled “Gems of The Royal Ballet” for all nine dancers hail from that company...
Principal Casting Announced for English National Ballet’s new production of Le Corsaire
Grigorovich’s production is not concerned with dramatic plausibility or characterisation, which may account for Zakharova’s Odette remaining a remote vision and her Odile a cool doppelganger rather than a temptress.
Carlos Acosta's very short photocall in the Golden Slave duet captured by Dave Morgan...
Maria Alexandrova/Ruslan Skvortsov and Svetlana Zakharova/Alexander Volchkov casts - 20 pictures
The Tribute bill is a well-chosen one... The season has been so short that the dancers haven’t had time to grow into their roles. They look as though they’re remembering instructions rather than relishing the ballets.
20 pictures by Foteini Christofilopoulou...