Boston Ballet – Program B: Symphony in Three Movements, L’Apres-Midi d’un...
...the dancers seem able to handle whatever comes their way. It’s a quality that will serve them well in their travels.
View ArticleRoyal Ballet School – Annual Main Stage Performance – London
Question... What's the biggest audience noise you will ever hear in ballet? Answer... The roar of the audience at the end of the Royal Ballet School show at the Opera House.
View ArticleBoston Ballet – Swan Lake – Boston
At my first performance, Ashley Ellis was a first-rate Odette/Odile, giving a nearly flawless performance. (I’m assuming that flawless performances transpire only in Heaven or some other...
View ArticleBoston Ballet – Shades of Sound: Chroma, Episodes, Black Cake – Boston
All three performances brought home the fact that this is a very strong company with the skills to perform any choreography that comes its way...
View ArticleBoston Ballet – Edge of Vision: Bach Cello Suites, Eventide, Celts – Boston
The evening was full of surprises, not least that two of the three choreographers were women and that Jorma Elo broke radically new ground in his Bach Cello Suites...
View ArticleBoston Ballet – Thrill of Contact: Theme and Variations, The Concert, The...
Boston Ballet closed its season with a generous offering of four ballets spanning almost 70 years... and including a world premiere and two company premieres...
View ArticleInterview – Zenaida Yanowsky – Principal, The Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet's Zenaida Yanowsky talks about her long career and also about the joys of working with Carlos Acosta - part of which is appearing with him in 'Cubania' this summer...
View ArticleKathleen Breen Combes – Principal, Boston Ballet
I was told my body type wasn’t really ideal, and during high school I had ballet teachers who said that maybe I should consider pursuing college because my body wasn’t suitable for classical ballet...
View ArticleAmerican Ballet Theatre – After You, Monotones I & II, Brahms-Haydn...
ABT galas are more laid-back than City Ballet’s; they’re less “produced,” with fewer speeches or slick video presentations. For the most part, the company just gets on with the show, with minimum fuss.
View ArticleLawrence Rines – Boston Ballet, Corps de Ballet
"I feel as though now that I’m older, working smart is the best thing as a dancer and artist. It’s not about NOT trying as hard as when I was younger, but really thinking about things."
View ArticleVail Dance Festival – ReMix NYC – New York
★★★★✰ After watching two of the four programs, a few things stand out. Firstly, it is clear that this is no simple gala, despite the format; there is a strong personal esthetic and philosophy at work...
View ArticleBallet Across America – Opening Night Celebration 2017 – Washington
★★★★✰ Ballet Across America – a festival that showcases the stylistic, creative and geographical diversity of American ballet – returned to the Kennedy Center this month...
View ArticleGemma Bond Dance – Then and Again, The Giving, Impressions – New York
★★★✰✰ It’s intriguing to see pas de deux that are clearly conceived from a woman’s point of view.
View ArticleRoyal Ballet – Bernstein Centenary: Yugen, The Age of Anxiety, Corybantic...
★★★✰✰ Leonard Bernstein wrote (in 1949): "I have a deep suspicion that every work I write, for whatever medium, is really theatre music in some way.' Many choreographers have taken up the challenge,...
View ArticleWill Tuckett’s Elizabeth – London
★★★★✰ Was she passionate as well as imperious? Her own letters and poems suggest so: contemporary accounts by others are not to be trusted. Her position of power in turbulent times generated a lot of...
View ArticleFall for Dance 2018, Program 1 – Boston Ballet, Sara Mearns, Caleb Teicher &...
★★★★✰ On the second night the program was offered, Mearns was stunning, but the remaining three pieces, by three different companies were, to varying degrees, engaging, although hers was a tough act...
View ArticleRussian Ballet Icons Gala 2019 – London
★★★✰✰ The annual Ballet Icons gala, now in its 14th year, aims to promote Russian culture while providing a Sunday evening's entertainment for Russians in London and ballet-lovers...
View ArticleAmerican Ballet Theatre – Jane Eyre – New York
★★✰✰✰ For all Marston’s qualifications, I found her Jane Eyre to be a dreary affair, theatrically dutiful and choreographically thin.
View Article5 Questions to Helen Pickett about her “Crucible” for Scottish Ballet and the...
As part of their 50th anniversary Scottish Ballet presents the world premiere of The Crucible by Arthur Miller, choreographed by Helen Pickett, from 3 – 5 August at the Edinburgh International Festival...
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