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.
Angelin Preljocaj
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
Bayerisches Staatsballett: Sphären.02 | Preljocaj
Sphären.02 certainly embraced a spectrum of styles. Whether it said much about future directions for ballet or dance is highly questionable, however.
An evening of many colours: Badisches Staatsballett’s International Benefit Gala
Invariably a wonderful evening’s dance… this year’s gala was also a farewell, and a thank you, to outgoing artistic director Bridget Breiner
A dance of seduction: Bayerisches Staatsballett in Le Parc
Prelocaj deals with love and attraction, sexual desire and seduction. It’s very much a ballet of suggestion, of desire that’s only realised in Act III
Ballet Preljocaj in a Swan Lake with a message
There are changes but… there are swans. There is a lake. There is an Odette in white, and a Siegfried who falls for an Odile in black.
Three choreographers meet for Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin’s Spectres d’Europa #3
Bruno Bouché, Angelin Preljocaj and Alba Castillo
A sparkling evening of superlative dance: Ballet Icons Gala
A show of much cheer on a rainy winter evening
Prelocaj, Balanchine and Béjart in the Royal Swedish Ballet and Opera’s Stravinsky triple-bill
A thrilling evening on all counts
Beyond the 50th anniversary: Scottish Ballet announce their 2020-21 plans
Includes a new reimagining of MacMillan’s Mayerling
