Staatsballett Berlin: Giselle
When the assured Riho Sakamoto first stepped out of her home as Giselle, she didn’t so much skip round the stage as fly.
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Staatsballett Berlin: 2 Chapters Love
“2 Chapters Love may be full of ‘classic’ Eyal but, in many ways, it also feels very much an ode to classical ballet.” Plus Sol Léon’s Stars Like Moths.
Staatsballett Berlin: SAABA & Minus 16
The fourth of Sharon Eyal and partner Gai Behar’s work to be danced by the Staatsballett, SAABA is different. Behar’s choreography feels more dreamy.
Legacy at the Linbury
A celebration of black dancers past and present. “A packed evening of a dozen short dance works brimming with talent.”
An evening of many colours: Badisches Staatsballett’s International Benefit Gala
Invariably a wonderful evening’s dance… this year’s gala was also a farewell, and a thank you, to outgoing artistic director Bridget Breiner
Staatsballett Berlin celebrates 20 years with a sparkling gala
The varied programme of mostly excerpts from longer pieces delighted the enthusiastic audience on a summery Sunday evening
Staatsballett Berlin: Giselle
This performance of Patrice Bart’s Giselle was special in that it saw Ksenia Ovsyanick dance the lead role for the last time
Flaubert’s Madame Bovary comes to rich balletic life at the Staatsballett Berlin
The bored middle-class housewife is raised to literary heights by the novel’s rich romantic language and Spuck follows suit in high choreographic art
Staatsballett Berlin: Onegin
Onegin… thoughtful, restless, troubled, austere. A sense of deep solitude and… incapacity to open up emotionally accompanies him throughout
A dance of sublime pleasure. Staatsballett Berlin in Christian Spuck’s Messa da Requiem
“…Rich in aesthetic charm and delicate beauty… abounds in dramatic moments… absorbs and leads to wonder.”
Cathy Marston to become Ballet Director at Ballett Zürich
She will take over as new Ballet Director and Chief Choreographer for an initial period of two years, starting from the 2023-24 season