Think Big: A dance festival for young audiences in Munich
In theatres, performance spaces, public squares and schools, with everything geared towards a young audience
Germany
Nationaltheater Mannheim Dance Ensemble: Kosmos – SCHWERE los
Perhaps it’s best not to overthink it and rather just sit back and enjoy the fine dancing and the many nuances in the work’s sometimes strange imagery
Stuttgart Ballet: Novitzky/Dawson
It may be abstract in the sense of being non-narrative… but Dawson’s choreography and the company’s dancing reached inside and touched the soul
Staatsballett Berlin: Giselle
This performance of Patrice Bart’s Giselle was special in that it saw Ksenia Ovsyanick dance the lead role for the last time
Choreographers across generations in Badisches Staatsballett’s Strings/Jumps
A well-balanced programme of quality dance – the visit of 92-year-old Hans van Manen and a rapturously received premiere from Mthuthuzeli November
Peeping Tom makes a guest performance with Triptych in Munich
The nine performers were absolutely fabulous. They were in complete command of every physical expression
Andrew Skeels creates new work with Bayerisches Staatsballett
Despite knee-pads and sore muscles – the dancers said that Skeels’ style is hard on a ballet trained body – the studio at times reverberated with laughter.
Osiel Gouneo, Black Romeo, a biography
“My way into the white world of ballet,” well summarizes his story but the biography… also gives a rare insight into what it means to be a dancer
La Bayadère with the Bayerisches Staatsballett
La Bayadère is a fairytale, which the Bayerisches Staatsballett turn into big drama. But the company does not ignore the problems the ballet has
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Nelken
Often humorous, the dances border on grotesque, as if begging [us]… to acknowledge that the overwhelming sweetness can quickly turn into horror
Flaubert’s Madame Bovary comes to rich balletic life at the Staatsballett Berlin
The bored middle-class housewife is raised to literary heights by the novel’s rich romantic language and Spuck follows suit in high choreographic art