Dutch National Ballet dance Beethoven
Hans van Manen’s Grosse Fuge proves convincingly that Beethoven’s music is perfectly suitable for dance
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Dutch National Ballet in David Dawson’s perfect The Four Seasons
One of those blissful moments when dance, music and design chassé into alignment…a moment of sublime beauty
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Season Encore and School Celebration
It has been “a season unlike any other,” says Artistic Director Peter Boal as the company bids a fond farewell to departing dancers
San Francisco Ballet School Virtual Festival
Behind the scenes film, followed by senior students in three works, including two world premieres
The Asian-American choreographic voice: 2021 CrossCurrent Contemporary Dance Virtual Festival
The mix of screendance and film of stage performances certainly evidence the increasing Asian-American choreographic voice
Flatpack Collaboration at the Birmingham International Dance Festival
A look at six dance films including the subtly beautiful but strongly-messaged In Plain Sight by Tanin Torabi
A unique piece of theatre: Circus Days and Nights by Cirkus Cirkör and Malmö Opera
This unique commingling of poetry, opera by Philip Glass and and circus has created something quite magical
Rhainnon Faith Company: Drowntown
Set in a dystopian world, ostensibly on the edge of a marine lido. Godot-like we are apparently waiting for a lifeguard to arrive
A trip into the darkness of emotional loneliness and frustration: B.DANCE in Rage
Superbly danced and full of atmosphere. A beautiful, dark, work that journeys into the depths of the human soul
San Francisco Ballet in Swan Lake
OnlineMay 21, 2021 Charlotte Kasner What has been a hugely pleasurable digital season from San Francisco Ballet came to a close with Helgi Tomasson’s 2009 production of Swan Lake, his second for the company. His robust re-telling is well suited to modern sentiments: after all we are all familiar with women suffering coercive control (if … Read more
Neo by Alexei Ratmansky
A new duet for Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside intersperses frenetic, sharp movement with languid ports de bras