La Sylphide with the Bayerisches Staatsballett
Keller not only looks like an incarnation of the sylphs in the engravings of the ballet from the Romantic era, she also fills her creature with life
La Sylphide
Spirits of the Ballet in Giselle and La Sylphide
Ballet workshops for adults seem to have fallen by the wayside rather in England. But at the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich they are going strong. On a Saturday evening in February, Jeannette Andersen joined one such. Half-an-hour before the workshop began, the 18 participants, one man and 17 women of various ages, slowly trickled into … Read more
BRB2: Carlos Acosta’s Classical Selection
If this Saturday matinée at a sold out Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham is anything to go by, BRB2 are well worth catching again
BRB2 in Carlos Acosta’s Classical Selection
A fine evening and a fine initiative that deserves to succeed. Yet more evidence of the excellent work Carlos Acosta is doing in Birmingham
Dance for Ukraine
A naturally emotion-laden evening, with most of the dance laden with symbolism, as the ballet world came together to raise money for aid for Ukraine
The Russian Ballet Collection: more newly restored films – La Sylphide & Chopiniana
No shortbread-tin Scotchness here
Scottish Ballet’s Sophie Martin a wonderfully prickly, mischievous Sylph in Matthew Bourne’s Highland Fling
An ultimately powerful, unforgiving tale
Jurgita Dronina beguiles in English National Ballet’s La Sylphide
She glowed with ethereality, enhanced by her feather-light ballon and steely point work