Dark and disturbed: Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Swan Lake/Loch na hEala
A gritty retelling that sees Odette as sexually abused by a priest
Swan Lake
A summer evening in the park with The Royal Ballet School
MacMillan’s Concerto: utterly beguiling and quite spine-tingling
Krzysztof Pastor’s new Swan Lake for Polish National Ballet is a tour de force
The rewritten story is both radical and traditional in an intriguing new mix.
The Royal Swedish Ballet in Pär Isberg’s The Dream of Swan Lake
A seriously good evening of ballet with a contemporary resonance
Behind the Scenes: English National Ballet’s Music Director, Gavin Sutherland
His lifelong passion for ballet and its music shines through
Old favourites, new challenges: Russian Ballet Icons Gala
A tribute to Diaghilev that looked backward, showcased the contemporary and offered something new
Yuri Grigorovich, master Russian choreographer, reaches his 90th birthday
As he celebrates his 90th birthday on January 2nd, Charlotte Kasner looks at the colossus of Russian choreographers that is Yuri Grigorovich, his times and his work. Yuri Nikolayevich Grigorovich was born in 1927 in Leningrad, ten years after the October revolution that swept imperialism away and just three years after the death of Lenin … Read more
As he celebrates his 90th birthday, three Yuri Grigorovich classic ballet productions come to the big screen
As Charlotte Kasner points out in her in-depth look at Yuri Grigorovich, if there is one choreographer who dominated Russian ballet during the second half of the 20th-century it is surely Yuri Grigorovich, who on January 2nd, 2017, celebrates his 90th birthday, an occasion being marked by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow with a season … Read more
Hard-hitting contemporary themes dominate Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Swan Lake (Loch na hEala)
Poetry, beauty, mystery and folklore; political and moral corruption, religious superstition and abuse
Humanising Odette: Jurgita Dronina in Hong Kong Ballet’s Swan Lake
The fullness of her courage is moving because it feels true
A revisionist Swan Lake for our times
The Australian Ballet makes a welcome return to the London Coliseum