Rentaro Nakaaki on choreographing for English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer
It will be another step on his choreographic journey as he creates the contemporary work for 2024 finalists, Anna Ciriano and Shunhei Fuchiyama
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The Dance Locker: Melissa Hamilton
In the latest of our occasional series, Melissa Hamilton opens her dance locker, revealing a special moments and ballets from her career to date.
Humanity. Tragedy with comedy. Maguy Marin on May B.
If Maguy Marin has a signature work, May B. is surely it. Ahead of its coming to London, the choreographer Marin tells David Mead about the piece.
National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica: celebrating who we are
A conversation with artistic director Marlon D. Simms about the company, and what Let’s Dance International Frontiers audiences can expect
Andrew Skeels creates new work with Bayerisches Staatsballett
Despite knee-pads and sore muscles – the dancers said that Skeels’ style is hard on a ballet trained body – the studio at times reverberated with laughter.
Moments in relationships and something of ourselves: Pett|Clausen-Knight on IMAGO
Maggie Foyer talks to James Pett and Travis Clausen-Knight, whose IMAGO receives its UK premiere on April 26 and 27.
Bringing Frankenstein’s monster to the dance stage
Goddard describes Frankenstein as an episodic work, “A series of romantic era tableaux, inside of which I can kind of operate as The Monster.”
The Dance Locker: Tzu-chao Chou
For the second in our occasional series, the Birmingham Royal Ballet principal dancer chooses his seven works that have particular significance, saying a few words about each. Born in Yilan in the north-east of Taiwan, Tzu-chao Chou (周子超) was very active as a child. When he was nine, his parents thought that dance lessons would … Read more
Mthuthuzeli November: making ballet with humanity
Ahead of the premieres of his new works for Ballett Zürich and The Royal Ballet, Maggie Foyer looks at the work of the South African choreographer.
Varna International Ballet takes Swan Lake back to its roots
Daniela Dimova talks about Varna International Ballet’s Swan Lake, now touring, that restores the score and dramaturgy to Tchaikovsky’s original.
La Strada: bringing a film classic to the ballet stage
Cojocaru recalls being particularly attracted by Gelsomina’s way of thinking. “Her way of being, of seeing the world… so naive, innocent and simple…”