TanzLuzern: HOPE
Two pieces by young choreographers, both of whom have a special relationship with the company: Mthuthuzeli November and Phoebe Jewitt.
Europe
Gauthier Dance Juniors: Dream Team
All six dancers appeared in all four pieces, performing with class, commitment and bags of energy. Best, though was the way all connected with the audience
A Symbiosis of Dance and Music: Listen! by Ceren Oran
As musicians and dancers shared the stage, the music seemed to be bound together by moving bodies, which again were bound through the music
Sao Paulo Dance Company: Goecke, Binyamini, Céspedes
In Marco Goecke’s Le Chant du Rossignol, the dancers, all terrifically sharp, precise, appear from and disappear back into a deep, abyss-like upstage blackness.
Theater Pforzheim: Swan Lake
I can safely say that I have never felt a swan’s breath on the back of my neck. Until now. Because that’s precisely what happened during Act Two…
One evening, two worlds: Dance x 2 by Dance Theater Heidelberg
‘Crash: reassembled’ by Astrid Boons, a reworking of her 2020 piece, and ‘IT’S NIGHT AGAIN’, a new work by Italian choreographer duo Panzetti/Ticconi
The scene of tomorrow: International Solo Dance Theater Festival Stuttgart winners on tour
The six works on this year’s tour certainly live up the requirement to be “original, imaginative, unique and… display unusual achievement.”
Compagnie Leïla Ka: Triptyque
Leïla Ka’s choreography is sharply incisive and precise, requires great core strength and physicality, but also leaves plenty of space for vulnerability
Dancers of Tomorrow: Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung Matinée in Munich
The autumn matinee of the Ballett-Akademie der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Akademie) and Bayerisches Junior Ballett München (BJBM)
Dutch National Ballet: Romeo and Juliet
Alongside the love story, Rudi van Dantzig also shows how the blood feud between the families affects the whole community around them
Ballett Zürich: Countertime
A well-balanced triple bill of a MacMillan classic, a European premiere from director, Cathy Marston, and a brand new commission from Bryan Arias.