★★★★✰ Clarity of execution is a hallmark of this Seattle-based company, which has been led since 2005 by the former New York City Ballet star, Peter Boal.
Tag - Prokofiev
★★★★✰ 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.
Scottish Ballet are touring Christopher Hampson's "Cinderella" this Christmas - Graham Watts was at the European premiere in Edinburgh for DanceTabs...
José Manuel Carreño on being a great Cuban dancer, now director of Silicon Valley Ballet, and the strong relations developing between the USA and Cuba and what that means for ballet.
Last month English National Ballet and Roehampton University held an event at London's Sadler's Wells to talk about their joint work on helping those with Parkinson’s disease: "Dance for Parkinson's Evidence of Impact - Moving Forward". Jann Parry reports for DanceTabs...
I rather warm to the Nureyev Romeo - its the big gory sweep of it, with more focus on the family feuding and a cinematic approach.
Blackburn has deconstructed the story of the play and the conventions of narrative dance. The only way to follow ‘the one-hour’s traffic of the stage’ is through video captions and quotations...
...a production that continues to set the standard against which later versions are measured.
Chamber Dance Project is essentially what it says on the tin: a small dance troupe which performs to live chamber music.
The National Ballet of China dancers are beautifully trained, surprisingly tall, willowy – even the men – and delicately featured.
Wheeldon has two problems to contend with in Cinderella: Prokofiev’s prescriptive score and Ashton’s definitive choreography from 1948...
The programme stretches and shows off the young graduates to good advantage in a well-chosen assortment.
Johan Kobborg took over as Director of Bucharest National Ballet just over a year ago. Time for Graham Watts to go and see how they are looking - in two very different bills...
Choreographed by artistic director Helgi Tomasson in 1994, the ballet is popular with audiences here and makes a satisfying coda to his thirtieth-anniversary season...
Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette reduces Shakespeare’s poetic play to a graphic novel, illustrating every emotion in bold outlines.
Both nights that I attended were blessed with an exquisite Cinderella. Gillian Murphy gave this production a beating heart with her tenderly expressive and incisive performance...
The balcony pas de deux, what all the paramours have come to see, is decent. There are the sweeping, leg splitting lifts, drippy back drapes (so much so that Hyltin at times looks dead), and romantic clutches in abundance.
...the Ukrainian-born soloist Anastasia Matvienko was a pliant, loose-limbed Cinderella who danced with uninhibited ease and looked perfectly at home in Ratmansky’s goofy interpretation of the character.
Vadim Muntagirov, making his debut as Jack, is any girl’s dream of a dancing partner.
By the end, I felt our journey of discovery had involved driving down one of those long, straight, interminable cross-American highways, with nothing but the same prairieland in view.