Royal Swedish Ballet in Mats Ek’s Juliet & Romeo
Kaho Yanagisawa gave Juliet youth and spontaneity, quickly maturing into a determined woman wanting to choose her life partner and follow her heart
Kaho Yanagisawa gave Juliet youth and spontaneity, quickly maturing into a determined woman wanting to choose her life partner and follow her heart
Alongside the love story, Rudi van Dantzig also shows how the blood feud between the families affects the whole community around them
Gala fireworks don’t come much brighter than Flames of Paris and the performance from Viola Pantuso and Shale Wagman was a winner
Schonbrun delivered on all counts with beautifully placed feet, crystalline classical positions and a finely drawn reading of a complex, wilful Juliet.
Anna Rose O’Sullivan stole the performance with depiction of a headstrong, intuitive, naïve, madly in love teenager
While certainly a romantic story of two lovers, Romeo and Juliet is also a tale haunted by death, which Bobrov emphasises throughout.
Ballet returns to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre with Romeo and Juliet. “It’s fabulous to see it again and its Northern Ballet at their best.”
Mackenzie Brown and Henrik Erikson delivered in spades. Brown’s Juliet seemed to surf the waves of emotion that were flooding through her body
A programme designed to show “What we are, who we are, and to give a taste of what we do.” A fine evening of high-quality dancing
The costumes are breathtaking, the lighting perfectly captures its changing moods and the dancing, of course, was excellent.
The visits of Tiler Peck and Friends and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater garner both two awards, with the De Valois lifetime award going to Ian Webb.