The scene of tomorrow: International Solo Dance Theater Festival Stuttgart winners on tour
The six works on this year’s tour certainly live up the requirement to be “original, imaginative, unique and… display unusual achievement.”
Germany
Compagnie Leïla Ka: Triptyque
Leïla Ka’s choreography is sharply incisive and precise, requires great core strength and physicality, but also leaves plenty of space for vulnerability
Dancers of Tomorrow: Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung Matinée in Munich
The autumn matinee of the Ballett-Akademie der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Akademie) and Bayerisches Junior Ballett München (BJBM)
Ultima Vez / Vim Vandekeybus: Void
Sandborgh, Yee and Taddeo display a raw, aggressive and at times brutal male energy, which is rarely seen in choreography for women
Ballett des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz: Stravinsky in Paris
“Having pulled you in, it holds you all the way to the final moment… An unusual Sacre for sure. But also one with a rare beauty.”
Goyo Montero says goodbye: Staatstheater Nürnberg Ballett in Malditos Benditos
Montero’s final work for the Staatstheater Nürnberg Ballett, Malditos Benditos is a series of personal revisiting of some of the his most popular works
Staatsballett Berlin: Gods and Dogs, Angels’ Atlas
The Staatsballett Berlin dancers were beautifully precise and neat in all the complex combinations, the movement looking fresh and innovative
Gauthier Dance Juniors & Barak Marshall: Barker
Full of boundless energy, fine dancing and pretty impressive acting… fifty minutes that’s hugely enjoyable and extremely entertaining.
Compagnie Marie Chouinard: Magnificat, Body Remix/Remix
Each movement has its own choreographic and lighting colour, the dance shifting easily from light and bouncy, to more earthy, floor-based
Nederlands Dans Theater: Figures in Extinction
A triptych that speaks about real, urgent, worrying and dramatic themes, realised through a combination of danced poetry and beauty
Badisches Staatsballett: Leuchtfeuer
Kristina Paulin’s ‘Das Schloss’, a ballet version of Kafka’s unfinished novel, Raimondo Rebeck’s Journey of a Memory, and Mauro Bigonzetti’s Cantata