The Ballet Icons Gala celebrates 20 years
As the always much-anticipated annual Ballet Icons Gala reaches a milestone, David Mead talks to founder-director Olga Balakleets.
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
Modern dance and the heartbeat of Ireland: Michael Keegan-Dolan on MÁM
This February and March, Michael Keegan-Dolan’s MÁM tours to nine venues. David Mead talks to the choreographer to talk about the work
Dutch National Ballet’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
It is still a lovely ballet with a warm child centred approach, designed with flair by Van Schayk.