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Category Archives: Ballet
Passion and sincerity: Tamara Rojo leads from the front in Akram Khan’s Giselle
Akram Khan: Giselle English National Ballet, Sadler’s Wells, 18th September 2019 Akram Khan’s arresting revision – or reimagining – of Giselle for English National Ballet has captured the public imagination to an extraordinary degree. Premiered in 2016, it has sold … Continue reading
Tilting at windmills: Bolshoi’s Don Quixote cranks into top gear
Don Quixote Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Opera House, 15th August 2019 Don Who? It’s best to forget Cervantes when it comes to the ballet version of Don Quixote, especially in Alexei Fadeyechev’s three-year old Bolshoi production, last seen here at Covent … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexei Loparevich, Alexei Matrakhov, Anna Balukova, Anna Tikhomirova, Antonina Chapkina, Bolshoi Ballet, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Don Quixote, Elena Zaitseva, Igor Tsvirko, Kristina Karasyova, Margarita Shrainer, Minkus, Pavel Sorokin, Ruslan Skvortsov, Valery Leventhal, Vera Borisenkova, Yuri Ostrovsky
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The Bolshoi’s Spartacus conquers Covent Garden
Spartacus Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Opera House, 29th July 2019 Big, bold, brassy. There’s only one company you’d want to see dance Spartacus: the Bolshoi Ballet. Although Aram Khachaturian’s raucous romp through the Third Servile War, in which Spartacus leads a … Continue reading
Persistent: ENB’s outstanding new triple bill celebrating female choreographers
Broken Wings/ Nora/ The Rite of Spring ***** English National Ballet, Sadler’s Wells, 4th April 2019 Choreography was long a male preserve, yet it’s still sobering to learn that Tamara Rojo was dancing professionally for over two decades before she performed … Continue reading
Victoria: Northern Ballet delivers intriguing history lesson at Sadler’s Wells
Victoria Northern Ballet, Sadler’s Wells, 29th March 2019 In her 200th anniversary year, Queen Victoria is everywhere. A few days after Season 3 of the British television series Victoria was launched, Cathy Marston’s new full-length work for Northern Ballet headed … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Prudames, Cathy Marston, Feeney, Jonathan Lo, Joseph Taylor, Mika Akuta, Mlindie Kulashe, Northern Ballet, Pippa Moore, Sean Bates, Victoria
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