Dinner Party: pulling back the curtain on relationships
An exploration of the relationships between five couples… visited in turn, each conversation heard in recorded text, seen in dance.
USA & Canada
New York City Ballet: Donizetti Variations, Ballade, Swan Lake
A pleasing, if unexciting evening. While nicely danced, it would be fair to say that none of the three ballets are out of Balanchine’s top drawer.
Fall for Dance Program 3: Two pas de deux, postmodern dance and something of today
Fall for Dance Program 3 with Hannah O’Neill and Hugo Marchand of Paris Opera Ballet, Gibney Dance, and Roderick George/kNoname Artist
Fall for Dance Programme 2: Dog Rising, Resurrection, Impasse
A stamina-sapping piece by Clara Furey/Bent Hollow, Memphis-Jookin from Charles ‘Lil Buck’ Riley, and Johan Inger’s weird and wonderful Impasse
New York City Ballet: Square Dance, Episodes, Western Symphony
Square Dance, bright and playful; Episodes, cool, detached and often regarded as Balanchine at his most abstract, and the fun Western Symphony
Akram Khan’s Dust provides a deeply moving end to the opening Fall for Dance evening
Set against a backdrop of the trenches and images of men going ‘over the top’, it remains incredibly haunting. The audience was totally rapt.
Juilliard Fall Festival Opening Night
London audiences will get a chance to see Juilliard students next year as the school has joined forces with the Rambert School in a year-long collaboration
Trajal Harrell / Zürich Dance Ensemble: Monkey Off My Back or The Cat’s Meow
The show draws on multiple art forms, being at least as much about fashion, visuals and music as the choreography; perhaps more so
vildwerk.: conservation meets dance
A marriage between dance, conservation and wildlife experts. “The dance…was largely very pleasing… The dancing right out of the top drawer.”
American Ballet Theatre: Innovation Past and Present
World premieres by Gemma Bond and Kyle Abraham, whose complex and unpedictable Mercurial Son “has lots to see and lots to like”
New York City Ballet: All-Peck
Everywhere We Go is a ballet that’s never forgets its classical roots, but ballet that’s also very ‘of today.’ The sort of ballet that makes you want to return.