English National Ballet: Giselle
The happy grins and overheard comments during the interval told you all you needed to know. Mary Skeaping’s Giselle is wonderful, a real gem.
The happy grins and overheard comments during the interval told you all you needed to know. Mary Skeaping’s Giselle is wonderful, a real gem.
This much needed new production looks a treat… Paul Pyant’s video design is very good… Dick Bird’s sets are glorious… Act Two is a riot of colour
A celebration of black dancers past and present. “A packed evening of a dozen short dance works brimming with talent.”
Ahead of their debuts as Akram Khan’s Giselle, ENB’s Francesca Velicu and Ivana Bueno spoke to Maggie Foyer about getting into the role.
Erina Takahashi brought to her rendition of Giselle, a delicacy, intimacy, and freshness… searing dramatisation of the doomed woman
A mixed bill brought, inevitably perhaps, mixed success but without a shadow of a doubt, it was worth it for Set Fast alone.
The third year’s classical work was Les Patineurs (1937), and then Pina Bausch’s Tannhăuser Bacchanal (1972), a fascinating piece of dance history
What we’ve come to expect from Ballet Nights is quality, variety and difference. This was evident in spades at the fifth presentation.
Sangeun Lee had emotion in spades, her sharp-edged Odile contrasting starkly with her soft, sad, Odette
One couple, Breanna Foad and Thiago Pereira stood out, and it was no great surprise when Foad was named Emerging Dancer 2024
It will be another step on his choreographic journey as he creates the contemporary work for 2024 finalists, Anna Ciriano and Shunhei Fuchiyama