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.
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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.
Sabor on the street! Ballet Hispánico’s 55th birthday bash
It was a truly joyous few hours. Performances from BH2, salsa and merengue sessions for everyone, live music from the terrific Tempo Alegre…
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.