A year in dance: 2016 in review
SeeingDance editor David Mead takes a personal glance back at the dance he saw in 2016.
Giselle
A gossamer-like Giselle: Alina Cojocaru with English National Ballet
Cojocaru produces a very fine dramatic contrast between the corporeal heroine and her corresponding Wili
Flying high: TNUA dancers shine in their Winter concert
Excellenty danced excerpts from Giselle, but Chang Kuo-wei’s (張國韋) Alternate Realm (鏡界) takes the honours
A magnificent theatrical evening: Akram Khan’s Giselle
It delivers on every level, as do the company who fully engaged both physically and emotionally
Power, beauty and sadness in Akram Khan’s Giselle
Marvellously powerful ensemble choreography and great duets
A tale of two Giselles: The Royal Ballet in Japan
There is so much to say about Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov, and so few ways of saying it
Just getting on with it: Sir Peter Wright’s life in dance
Wrights and Wrongs: My Life in Dance – Peter Wright with Paul Arrowsmith
English National Ballet to perform Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring
English National Ballet release their Autumn 2016 and Spring 2017 programmes
