English National Ballet School annual performance
The third year’s classical work was Les Patineurs (1937), and then Pina Bausch’s Tannhăuser Bacchanal (1972), a fascinating piece of dance history
The third year’s classical work was Les Patineurs (1937), and then Pina Bausch’s Tannhăuser Bacchanal (1972), a fascinating piece of dance history
The company are not content with being superb jugglers. There’s a lot of movement skills and comedic flair too
Often humorous, the dances border on grotesque, as if begging [us]… to acknowledge that the overwhelming sweetness can quickly turn into horror
A man of resilience, grace, generosity of spirit, and an acute observer of the complexities of the human condition, he passed away in 2021
It remains an unparalleled piece exploring relationships between the sexes…full of ideas and observations that have not lost their brilliance.
Despair, solitude and collective reminiscence
Includes a live streaming of The Piece with the Ship
Starts with Bausch’s ‘He takes her by the hand and leads her into the castle, the others follow’
The tension between the sexes seems heightened on the windswept sands