Ballet British Columbia – 16+ a room, Solo Echo, Bill – London
★★★✰✰ Crystal Pite’s Solo Echo, originally made for Nederlands Dans Theater, was the undoubted highlight of the evening. Built around two Brahms sonatas…
Interview – Emily Molnar, Ballet British Columbia’s artistic director, on their work and UK tour
Next month (March 2018) Ballet British Columbia, or Ballet BC as they are commonly known, tour the UK. Diane Parkes talks to artistic director Emily Molnar about the company and the works they are touring which includes a piece by the ultra-hot Crystal Pite…
Fall for Dance – New works by Michelle Dorrance, Kyle Abraham, Sara Mearns and Honji Wang, Mark Morris – New York
★★★✰✰ I caught all four new works: an expanded version of Michelle Dorrance’s Myelination, Kyle Abraham’s Drive, the Sara Mearns and Honji Want collaboration No. 1, and Mark Morris’s solo Twelve of ‘em for David Hallberg.
Ballet BC – 16+ a room, Solo Echo, Bill – New York
★★★✰✰ Have you ever left a performance of contemporary ballet desperate for some color, some light, some human warmth?
Kidd Pivot and Electric Company Theatre – Betroffenheit by Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young – London
★★★✰✰ 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.
International Dance Festival Birmingham 2016 – Ballet BC, Shun Ito/Kei Miyata/EEIH, Motionhouse & free events
★★★✰✰ IDFB is great for Birmingham and I hope those in and around the city filled their boots.
