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.
Germany
Think Big: A dance festival for young audiences in Munich
In theatres, performance spaces, public squares and schools, with everything geared towards a young audience
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
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
Duato, Skeels and Eyal at the Bayerisches Staatsballett
The three pieces are about the death of woman, the extinction of a whole society and a world in which people seem closed in on themselves
Choreographers across generations in Badisches Staatsballett’s Strings/Jumps
A well-balanced programme of quality dance – the visit of 92-year-old Hans van Manen and a rapturously received premiere from Mthuthuzeli November
Peeping Tom makes a guest performance with Triptych in Munich
The nine performers were absolutely fabulous. They were in complete command of every physical expression
Osiel Gouneo, Black Romeo, a biography
“My way into the white world of ballet,” well summarizes his story but the biography… also gives a rare insight into what it means to be a dancer