★★★★✰ Both are pre-existing ensemble works, the performers virtually anonymous on stage, though named on cast sheets: the company is the star, not the soloists.
Tag - Scottish Ballet
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★★★★✰ Each Other makes you reflect and think - and it deserves to be seen much more widely.
★★★★✰ Scottish Ballet came ready to impress, and impress it did.
★★★✰✰ It's rather a scandal that Ballet Black get no regular Arts Council support and yet proportionally they do far more to put new work out there and also before a public that is not your usual ballet crowd.
The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards for 2016 were presented today at a ceremony in London, hosted by Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy MBE and Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, the creative team behind the highly successful dance company, Boy Blue Entertainment.
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, the award winning choreographer, chats with Diane Parkes about working with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba. The 'high powered' and much admired company are about to tour the UK with one of her works and we wanted to know more...
★★★★✰ ...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.
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the nominations for the 17th National Dance Awards,
★★★★✰ San Francisco Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Houston Ballet have come together in LA to celebrate William Forsythe probably the most influential ballet choreographer of his generation. Claudia Bauer reports on a fine night...
★★★✰✰ Yorke Dance Project is unusual, among small modern dance companies, in its respect for musicality and for the demands it makes for skilled partnering.
★★★★★ 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.
★★★✰✰ In a nutshell Bintley's Tempest is a visual triumph but feels slight choreographically and you'd be well advised to mug up on the story before seeing it.
Scottish Ballet's Autumn 2016 double bill features a world premiere, "Sibilo", by company dancer and choreographer Sophie Laplane - her first main stage commission. So what does "Sibilo" mean? - read on to find out that and more...
★★★★✰ Outside London Scottish Ballet's sense of adventure makes them the UK company to watch...
★★★✰✰ I give it 3 stars because when you do see Pite's movement it's amazing, but in any other hands this was a 2 star night.
★★★✰✰ IDFB is great for Birmingham and I hope those in and around the city filled their boots.
★★★✰✰ 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.
★★★✰✰ Rojo has succeeded in securing one really stimulating work in Broken Wings.
"I’ve never won a prize before..." on the day Laura Morera won an Outstanding award at the National Dance Awards, Margaret Willis had a long chat with the excited, and much loved, Royal Ballet principal...