Singularly sensational: A Chorus Line
The final number apart, it’s not glitzy and it’s not glamourous but it is a terrific piece of theatre. And the singing and dancing are top-notch too.
David Mead
Bayerisches Staatsballett: Sphären.02 | Preljocaj
Sphären.02 certainly embraced a spectrum of styles. Whether it said much about future directions for ballet or dance is highly questionable, however.
Two debuts, two promotions and Cranko’s fine Swan Lake with Stuttgart Ballet
“Freely adapted from traditional versions.” Fine performances from Gabriel Figueredo and Mizuki Amemiya, both promoted at the end of the evening
Staatstheater Nürnberg Ballett: Maillot/León-Lightfoot
Les Noces and Stop-Motion may only contain around an hour’s dance, but it proved an evening laden with emotion and intensity.
Emotions in full flow: Henrik Erikson and Mackenzie Brown in Stuttgart Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet
Mackenzie Brown and Henrik Erikson delivered in spades. Brown’s Juliet seemed to surf the waves of emotion that were flooding through her body
Classicism to the fore at the John Cranko School Matinée
Top quality dancing… But perhaps best of all, everything was very classically rooted, with pointework very much to the fore for the women.
An evening of many colours: Badisches Staatsballett’s International Benefit Gala
Invariably a wonderful evening’s dance… this year’s gala was also a farewell, and a thank you, to outgoing artistic director Bridget Breiner
Nationaltheater Mannheim Dance Ensemble: Kosmos – SCHWERE los
Perhaps it’s best not to overthink it and rather just sit back and enjoy the fine dancing and the many nuances in the work’s sometimes strange imagery
Stuttgart Ballet: Novitzky/Dawson
It may be abstract in the sense of being non-narrative… but Dawson’s choreography and the company’s dancing reached inside and touched the soul
A new ballet ensemble puts storytelling to the fore: Ballet MAR in Warp & Weft
Excellent dancing, good choreography, efficient storytelling. And specially commissioned music. All rather impressive for a first outing by Ballet MAR
The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance
The standard was uniformly high although, as in the past couple of years, it was the men, who got two pieces all to themselves, who thrilled