International DANCE Festival München: Powerful words and intriguing dance
19 shows. 11 days. 9 venues. The first of several reports focuses on director Tobias Staab’s opening remarks, and ‘deadlier than dead’ by Ligia Lewis.
Reviews
Royal Swedish Ballet: Romeo and Juliet
Schonbrun delivered on all counts with beautifully placed feet, crystalline classical positions and a finely drawn reading of a complex, wilful Juliet.
Modern Table in Ham:beth
The six dancers present sequence after sequence of precise, tight, intricate, and repetitive dance, that certainly hits the spot.
Bat Out of Hell: The Musical
The live band do more than justice to Steinman’s compositions, they give them fresh life and vigour with feet stamping indulgence
Ballet BC: Frontier, Passing
Crystal Pite’s Frontier takes the audience on a fabulous thirty-minute journey to a place somewhere between conscious and unconscious
Ballet Hispánico: CARMEN.maquia
A more authentically Spanish take on the story, traditional yet innovative and with a contemporary vibe. It looks terrific, and was wonderfully danced
A trip down ballet’s memory lane with BRB2
The best performance of the afternoon came in the closing pas de deux from The Firebird… Alexandra Manuel was quite simply terrific
The Royal Ballet: All-Wheeldon Ballet to Broadway
Not only a super demonstration of the range of his output, but the title encapsulates neatly his journey from classical ballet to musical theatre.
Northern Ballet: Jane Eyre
One of the most beautifully danced ballets I have seen in a long while. All the dancers were both technically and expressively excellent
Acosta Danza: Cuban Eclectico
For sheer athleticism, expression and the multiple techniques of the dancers, all on show in Cuban Eclectico, they are hard to beat.
Oona Doherty’s Specky Clark
The narrative takes convoluted turns and tangents; the fine lines of the Specky’s reality an ambiguous jumble