Staatsballett Berlin: Gods and Dogs, Angels’ Atlas
The Staatsballett Berlin dancers were beautifully precise and neat in all the complex combinations, the movement looking fresh and innovative
Veronica Posth
Nederlands Dans Theater: Figures in Extinction
A triptych that speaks about real, urgent, worrying and dramatic themes, realised through a combination of danced poetry and beauty
Staatsballett Berlin: Edward Clug’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Whimsical, intricate and playful… an evening where dream and reality merge, and the boundaries between love and deception blur.
Florence Dance Festival 2024
An extraordinarily wide-ranging programme of work… in the highly atmospheric Grand Cloister of the Santa Maria Novella.
Staatsballett Berlin celebrates 20 years with a sparkling gala
The varied programme of mostly excerpts from longer pieces delighted the enthusiastic audience on a summery Sunday evening
Staatsballett Berlin: Giselle
This performance of Patrice Bart’s Giselle was special in that it saw Ksenia Ovsyanick dance the lead role for the last time
A beautiful confession: Alessandro Marzotto Levy’s Irene
Dedicated to a dear departed friend, the work developed out of the loss and dismay he went through after her death
Tanzkomplizen: Ich Kann’s Nicht Lassen
A participatory family-friendly piece where the spectators became protagonists themselves, each performance thus being unique.
A dip into Berlin’s Tanz im August 2023
In ‘The Romeo’, Trajal Harrell combines voguing with bizarre and fascinating outfits in choreography full of fluid, wavy, undulating movement
Platform 14 provides a stage for emerging independent choreographers
It was good to witness some excellent dancing and well-thought choreographies.
Staatsballett Berlin: Onegin
Onegin… thoughtful, restless, troubled, austere. A sense of deep solitude and… incapacity to open up emotionally accompanies him throughout