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
Bridget Breiner
Badisches Staatsballett: The Girl & the Nutcracker
Bridget Breiner shifts the action to early 20th-century America. The all-new choreography is refreshingly classical, the ballet a showcase for technique
Badisches Staatsballett International Benefit Gala
An enjoyable and interesting evening with the focus on duets and the more contemporary end of the spectrum, and only one firework pas de deux.
A tale of two queens: Badisches Staatsballett in Maria Stuart
While Sophie Martin is a commanding presence as Elizabeth, albeit someone aloof and alone… it is Bridgett Zehr as Mary who stalks every scene
A symphony of dance: Badisches Staatsballett in Per aspera ad astra
Glen Tetley’s Voluntaries is intensely moving. The dance soars literally, in its cruciform overhead lifts, and in its spirituality.
Badisches Staatsballett: Ruß – Eine Geschichte von Aschenputtel (Soot – A Retelling of Cinderella)
Bridget Briner’s complex, impressive version that relocates the story and tells it from the perspective of Livia, one of Cinderella’s stepsisters
Stuttgart Ballet in Party Pieces selected by Reid Anderson
An evening of tasty short ballets and excerpts