Chamber Dance Project – Joyce Theater Ballet Festival bill – New York
Chamber Dance Project is essentially what it says on the tin: a small dance troupe which performs to live chamber music.
View ArticleFall For Dance Festival at City Center – Programs 3 and 4 – New York
Fall For Dance is a genuine feast, a display of unparalleled variety and plenty. When well-balanced, nothing is sweeter... but occasionally the flavors clash, and the abundance overwhelms.
View ArticleCannes Dance Festival – Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse: The Beast and Beauty,...
For the festival Brigitte Lefèvre chose an eclectic mixture of popular and audacious programmes from twelve different companies – mainly regional French companies... some smaller independent groups and...
View ArticleAlvin Ailey American Dance Theater – Memoria, Piazzolla Caldera, Grace,...
Warmth, exuberance, power, finesse – all these qualities infuse everything they do.
View ArticleSan Francisco Ballet – Opening Night Gala – San Francisco
★★★✰✰ By way of a défilé, the evening opened with the “Waltz of the Hours” from Balanchine and Danilova’s Coppélia ...Soloist Jennifer Stahl led two dozen girls from the SFB School, adorable in...
View ArticleInterview: Alexander Ekman, Director / Choreographer, on Cacti and other things
One of the go-to international choreographers, particularly if you want something arresting and unusual, is Alexander Ekman. His "Cacti", appropriately featuring a stage full of Cacti, is about to be...
View ArticleGallery – Nederlands Dans Theater 2 (NDT2) in I New Then, mutual comfort,...
NDT2 in works by Johan Inger, Edward Clug, Hans van Manen and Alexander Ekman. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
View ArticleNederlands Dans Theater 2 (NDT2) – I New Then, mutual comfort, Solo, Cacti –...
★★★★✰ It seems an age (well 4 years) since NDT2 were last touring the UK and I've missed them. They might be the young company of Nederlands Dans Theater (aged 18-23) but they put on a fine show...
View ArticleNederlands Dans Theater 2 (NDT2) – Schubert, Sad Case, Some Other Time,...
★★✰✰✰ Hans van Manen’s Solo for three men comes as a blessed relief for its luscious co-ordination and witty response to Bach’s Violin Partita.
View ArticleJoffrey Ballet Concert Group – An Evening of Dance – New York
★★★✰✰ The Joffrey Ballet Concert Group, a pre-professional troupe of young dancers under the direction of David Robertson, performed a mixed but very split bill on Thursday night, roughly dividing...
View ArticleGallery – English National Ballet in Adagio Hammerklavier & In the Middle,...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
View ArticleEnglish National Ballet – Pina Bausch, William Forsythe, Hans van Manen bill...
★★★★★ One cannot help but observe that while the programmes of other companies both hit and miss, in terms of their critical appreciation and popular appeal, ENB is continually raising the bar...
View ArticleRoyal Ballet School – Annual Main Stage Performance 2017 – London
★★★★✰ It was a well-balanced programme, featuring different kinds of discipline for future corps de ballet dancers, and honouring veteran choreographers as well as contemporary ones.
View ArticleDutch National Ballet – Hans van Manen, Ode to the Master bill – Amsterdam
★★★★✰ An outstanding bill in showing Hans van Manen's work for three companies and its rich contemporary diversity - it all looks so fresh and of today.
View ArticleCatching up with Morphed – Tero Saarinen Soul Shifting in New York
Some dance can be really thought provoking and that seems to have been the case with Tero Saarinen's "Morphed" - at least for Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer who recently caught up with the work at...
View ArticleDutch National Ballet – Dutch Doubles: Impermanence, Two and Only, Déjà vu,...
★★★★✰ Dutch National Ballet's Dutch Doubles quad bill features 3 new works by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Ernst Meisner and Wubkje Kuindersma plus a classic piece, new to the company, from the legend that...
View ArticleSome dance in London – thoughts on Saburo Teshigawara, Diana Vishneva’s...
Saburo Teshigawara & Rihoko Sato in 'The Idiot' at The Print Room (★★★✰✰), Diana Vishneva's CONTEXT Festival of Russian contemporary choreography at Sadler's Wells (★★★✰✰), Introdansm 'Dutch...
View ArticleDutch National Ballet Junior Company – ROH, Young Talent Festival, Quint bill...
★★★✰✰ Dutch National Ballet Junior Company at the ROH Young Talent Festival with 5 works – No Time Before Time, Fuse, What Got You Here, Fingers in the Air and In The Future.
View ArticleAstana Ballet – Love Fear Loss, A Fuego Lento, Heritage of the Great Steppe,...
★★★✰✰ The extremely good-looking company members are well-trained, versatile dancers...
View ArticleHungarian National Ballet – Firebirds (premiere), 5 Tangos – streamed from...
★★★✰✰ A double bill with a re-run of Hans van Manen’s 5 Tangos paired with the premiere of Firebirds (based on the Stravinsky score), this new work having the rare distinction of being created by an...
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