Installed at the Kennedy Center right when the cherry blossoms were at their cockiest, New York City Ballet bowed to its glorious past and flaunted its protean present in two dazzling programs.…
23 APRIL 2015
30 MARCH 2015
Firing squads & zombies in Milwaukee Ballet’s war-time Giselle
Michael Pink’s reworking of Giselle for Milwaukee Ballet may not be the most farfetched distortion of the Romantic classic. But Pink’s setting of the ballet in a 1940’s Jewish ghetto, policed by armed guards, and the mass execution of ghetto inhabitants, who then resurrect as zombie-like Wilis in white pyjamas, …
15 MARCH 2015
The highs and lows of San Francisco Ballet’s latest mixed bills
San Francisco Ballet unleashed 24-year-old corps dancer Myles Thatcher’s latest creation on a wildly enthusiastic audience on February 24th – an audience that included dance world luminaries William Forsythe and Natalia Makarova, whose work was also on display in a decidedly mixed bill.…
10 MARCH 2015
Only four more days to keep Ballet San Jose alive
Ballet San Jose danced their heart out last month in a dazzling, ambitious program of iconic American works by Balanchine, Robbins and Tharp, of which we wrote:
…The company, with an infusion of new, youthful talent from Cuba, China, and points beyond – imported by the charismatic José Manuel
9 MARCH 2015
“Being a King is not all it’s cracked up to be”: A Winter’s Tale
Did you catch the HD broadcast of the Royal Ballet’s A Winter’s Tale, with the magnificent Ed Watson, Lauren Cuthbertson, and Zenaida Yanowsky? Click here for our “bite-size” review on Twitter.…