Charlotte Kasner 
As he celebrates his 90th birthday on January 2nd, Charlotte Kasner looks at the colossus of Russian choreographers that is Yuri Grigorovich, his times and his work. Yuri Nikolayevich Grigorovich was born in 1927 in Leningrad, ten years after the October revolution that swept imperialism away and just three years after the death of Lenin … Read more
As Charlotte Kasner points out in her in-depth look at Yuri Grigorovich, if there is one choreographer who dominated Russian ballet during the second half of the 20th-century it is surely Yuri Grigorovich, who on January 2nd, 2017, celebrates his 90th birthday, an occasion being marked by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow with a season … Read more
Earth and heaven are united as peony petals rain from the sky. Beautiful
Poetry, beauty, mystery and folklore; political and moral corruption, religious superstition and abuse
Peacock Theatre, London November 9, 2016 Charlotte Kasner It may seem like an odd choice to open a programme with a piece about falling asleep but Marcelino Sambé’s Land of Nod piques the interest throughout. He sets some fiendish choreography for his dancers and the combination of music by Nathan Halpern and Yann Tiersen, and … Read more
His figures are undeniably human and capture the essence of dance by distorting and inflating it
One leaves the theatre admiring, but not uplifted – and somewhat tired from all the jarring insistence
Another favourite from The China National Peking Opera Company
Terrifically exciting. For once, the designation ‘spectacular’ is not misplaced.
They dipped, they twisted, they rolled their heads but to no avail. Fixed they were.
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