Balanchine and Morau, Preljocaj and Xie Xin: Hamburg Ballet’s Fast Forward
From George Balanchine’s Serenade to Xie Xin’s The Moon in the Ocean, via Marcos Morau’s Totentanz and Angelin Preljiocaj’s Annonciation.
Angelin Preljocaj
Ballet Icons 20th Anniversary Gala
Somewhat more classical than previous years, the standard of dancing was sans pareil. Just what the doctor ordered.
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.
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