Resolution 26: Hannah Todosijczuk, SynEcho, Kill Your Darlings
The dancers are committed and the themes are ambitious. What I miss is not effort, but clarity.
Reviews
Bayerisches Staatsballett in Neumeier’s Illusionen – wie Schwanensee
A coming together of Swan Lake and the ill-fated King Ludwig II of Bavaria, a troubled dreamer renowned for building castles and his homosexuality
Resolution 26: Fin de Fiesta, JJ James, Lauren Scott
Three works that approach dance from very different directions. Movement functioned as performance, but also a way of listening, gathering and questioning
A wintery delight: Scottish Ballet’s The Snow Queen
Christopher Hampson’s version of the Snow Queen for Scottish Ballet is like a breath of fresh air. A terrifically entertaining spectacle,
Resolution 26: ZhouXin Theater, Babyteeth, DREAM
All three pieces show performers with ability and intent, but none of them offers a thread I can follow.
Resolution 26: Mia Segal, Greta Gauhe & Deborah Dimeglio, Hui-Hsin Lu
From theatrical storytelling, to an intimate duet built around physical touch, to an abstract collaboration between movement and installation
Akram Khan’s Giselle: a ballet about being moved
Even the afterlife offers no freedom, only a different choreography of obedience. In this Giselle, death is not release. It is relocation.
Resolution 26: Megan Westpfel Co, Wild Guess and Ming-Chin Hsieh
Some works appear fully formed, while others feel provisional, still in dialogue with larger ideas yet to come… energy emerges as a shared currency
Resolution 26: Isadora D’Héloïsa, Qi Song, Seirian Griffiths
In Interchange, Seirian Griffiths’ choreography of dance, gymnastics and more is totally absorbing… grace, fluidity and tremendous technical skill
Resolution 26: Maya Inniss, Aurora Casatori, Ty Burrows
Across the evening, each work investigates the combination of different art forms as a means of shaping a personal artistic language.
Resolution 26: Sana El-Wakili, Esther Cheong, Paxton Ricketts
Sound repeatedly insists on being more than accompaniment. It presses into the choreography, shaping timing, attention and pressure on the body