A Night at the Museum with Birmingham Royal Ballet
The highlight was Olivia Chang-Clarke’s new Melody in Three. While classical through and through, dotted throughout are quirky moments that make you smile
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Ballet Nights 05
What we’ve come to expect from Ballet Nights is quality, variety and difference. This was evident in spades at the fifth presentation.
Dances of life: Bundesjugendballett
The ensemble of eight graduate dancers aged 18-23… brims with talent… a fabulous evening, one filled with energy, passion and fine dancing.
L’Animale by Chiara Bersani
A work of subtle developments. Minute movements have great effect, should you make the effort to notice them, to appreciate their value to the whole
English National Ballet School dance PCK and Pita
Most fun was Arthur Pita´s Death Defying Dances. Full of dark humour and fabulous music, it is an absolute delight.
Bacchae: Prelude to a Purge by Marlene Monteori Freitas
Bacchae will stay with me for a long time… but sadly not for the right reasons. And I am still left with the question: Why?
New English Ballet Theatre & Norwegian National Ballet 2
A wonderfully varied, enjoyable evening that mixed out-and-out classical ballet with contemporary dance, although Oslo-based NNB2 had the edge
Ballet Nacional de España: Invocación
Escuela bolera, contemporary dance with a Spanish twist, danza estilizada, and of course, flamenco.
English National Ballet’s Swan Lake-in-the-round
Sangeun Lee had emotion in spades, her sharp-edged Odile contrasting starkly with her soft, sad, Odette
Czech visitors thrill at The Grange Festival: National Ballet of Brno in Oktetto
A programme designed to show “What we are, who we are, and to give a taste of what we do.” A fine evening of high-quality dancing
Ashton Celebrated at The Royal Ballet
The evening rounded off on a high with Rhapsody… Daichi Ikarashi did well, leaping and turning with aplomb