AXIS Dance Company – In•ter•twine, works by Arthur Pita, Jennifer Archibald &...
★★★★★ AXIS, a bold and innovative leader in physically integrated dance, just presented their latest triple bill including two important premieres...
View ArticleNatalia Osipova – Pure Dance bill – London
★★★✰✰ Once again, Osipova gave it her all – and Osipova’s all is quite something to behold.
View ArticleBlack Grace – Kiona and the Little Bird Suite, As Night Falls, Crying Men,...
★★★★✰ The dozen dancers brought a fierce energy to the stage, performing four works of astonishing speed and athleticism.
View ArticleMark Morris Dance Group – Pepperland – Washington
★★★✰✰ Much of the exuberance and vibrancy in Pepperland is supplied by Morris’s ingenious and utterly entertaining choreography...
View ArticleNew York City Ballet – Classic NYCB I including Haieff Divertimento &...
★★★★✰ The four ballets make for a slightly over-long evening (both Episodes and Rodeo are substantial works). But it’s a small price to pay for seeing these rarities back onstage.
View ArticleSan Francisco Ballet – Program 2, Classical Re(Vision) bill – San Francisco
★★★★✰ San Francisco Ballet’s Program 2 was dubbed Classical Re(Vision) – a remembering of and reconnection with choreography in SFB’s existing repertory catalogue.
View ArticleAnne Teresa De Keersmaker / Rosas – Mitten Wir in Leben Sind – New York
★★★✰✰ The dance is spare and pedestrian, as is De Keersmaeker’s way, and lasts two hours, without intermission. And yet it’s not really a challenge to experience it all in one sitting.
View ArticleOutdoors Ballet – some different responses to Lockdown from around the world
As lockdown eases ballet is getting out of streaming from living rooms and into the big wide world - Jann Parry looks at six happenings/films involving dancers from Dance Theatre of Harlem, New York...
View ArticleDancers doing it for themselves – Dancers of New York City Ballet present...
There was a rush of emotion at seeing these extraordinary dancers doing the thing they do best. Their energy, precision, and drive, the way they change the space around them, is inspiring...
View ArticleSadler’s Wells and BBC Arts – Dancing Nation: Episode Three – London
★★★✰✰ Episode Three of Dancing Nation contains works by Matsena Productions (Anthony & Kel Matsena), Kenneth Tindall for Northern Ballet, Shobana Jeyasingh, and Marion Motin for Rambert.
View ArticleSarasota Ballet – Paul Taylor 2bill: Brandenburgs, Company B – streamed from...
★★★★★ "Thank you, Sarasota Ballet, and Michael Trusnovec, licensee of Paul Taylor’s works, for making two of his lovely pieces available to a virtual audience bereft of live performances."
View ArticleSan Francisco Ballet – Digital Program 05: 7 for Eight, Snowblind, Anima Animus
★★★★✰ I had missed SFB’s London season at Sadler’s Wells in 2019, so was pleased to catch up with ballets brought together for this digital triple bill.
View ArticleNew York Theatre Ballet – Spring Lift Lab Live: Program D – New York
★★★★✰ The programs are a mix of revivals and new works, many by company-members or up-and coming choreographers. Diana Byer, the artistic director, has also developed a close relationship with the...
View ArticleEnglish National Ballet – Reunion quintuple bill – London
★★★✰✰ With works from Yuri Possokhov (Senseless Kindness), Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Laid in Earth), Stina Quagebeur (Take Five Blues), Russell Maliphant (Echoes) and Arielle Smith (Jolly Folly)
View ArticleRosie Kay – Absolute Solo II: Artemis Clown, Patisserie, Adult Female Dancer...
★★★★✰ It's been a long time since I've seen a piece of dance theatre quite so moving and thought-provoking as Adult Female Dancer.
View ArticleBirmingham Royal Ballet – Curated By Carlos: City of a Thousand Trades,...
★★★✰✰ A night of premieres for BRB this week with two World premieres (from Miguel Altunaga and Daniela Cardim) and one British premiere (from Goyo Montero) in their latest triple bill - "Curated By...
View ArticleNorthern Ballet – Contemporary Cuts 2021 quintuple bill – London
★★★★✰ A rare and full mixed bill of a night from Northern Ballet, the more welcome for featuring two London premieres - by Amaury Lebrun and Kenneth Tindall. The premieres bookended a bill with one...
View ArticleRoyal Ballet School – Summer Show, ROH Main Stage – London
★★★★✰ The 2021 Royal Ballet School Summer Show, on the Royal Opera House Main Stage, was a different affair to normal with many of the White Lodge Junior School students physically absent because of...
View ArticleBirmingham Royal Ballet – Curated by Carlos triple bill with Acosta and Ferri...
★★★✰✰ "These two extraordinary ballet stars gave a masterclass in elegant partnering, Ferri precise on pointe and soaring in a demanding series of lifts, Acosta charismatic, graceful and gracious."
View ArticleZviDance – The Art of Fugue – New York
★★★★★ "ZviDance’s The Art of Fugue multiplies the beauty and complexity of Bach’s creative genius onto multiple platforms with inspired intelligence and sensitivity..."
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