The 16th World Ballet Festival on demand
Everything is straight out of the top drawer in the first of two programmes from the festival held in Tokyo in August 2021
John Neumeier
Coming to cinemas, a ballet to take the breath away: Bolshoi Ballet in Lady of the Camellias
Coming next in the Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema season is John Neumeier’s Lady of the Camellias. Charlotte Kasner takes a look. The seeds of John Neumeier’s Lady of the Camellias were sown when Marcia Haydeé commissioned him to produce a work for Stuttgart Ballet. Initially he planned a production of Cleopatra but changed his mind … Read more
Hamburg Ballett in John Neumeier’s Ghost Light: A Ballet in the Time of Corona
Finely crafted episodes…a tribute to Neumeier’s mastery
John Neumeier creates Ghost Light, a new ballet respecting social distancing
A sequence of carefully arranged, hopefully ‘delicious’ miniatures
Ballets by John Neumeier: video on-demand from Hamburg Ballet
Five ballets to be screened in full over the next month
A beautiful story now told in compelling dance: John Neumeier’s The Glass Menagerie
Alina Cojocaru has all the fragility and otherworldliness required of Laura
A ballet of endless questioning: Shakespeare Sonnets by Hamburg Ballet
Searching out complex emotions
The World of John Neumeier: a window on the man and his choreography
A journey through a lifetime of choreograpy
The mind and music of a genius: Hamburg Ballet in John Neumeier’s Beethoven Project
The detail in the dance is astounding
Thoughts about ballet and a look forward to Hamburg Ballet in Hong Kong: a conversation with John Neumeier
“Painting with human beings in space and time”