United Kingdom Tom Dale Company’s Step Sonic: The Place, London, 14.11.2019. (JO’D)
Tom Dale Company’s dancers become their own sound source for Step Sonic’s music
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Osipova shines in Raymonda Act III but ghosts of the 1960s haunt The Royal Ballet’s triple bill
United Kingdom The Royal Ballet’s Concerto/Enigma Variations/Raymonda Act III: Dancers of The Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Pavel Sorokin (conductor). Directed for the screen by Ross MacGibbon and broadcast live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 5.11.2019. (JPr)
Richard Alston’s Final Edition is surely not the last word …
United Kingdom Richard Alston Dance Company, Final Edition: Dancers (Joshua Harriette, Nicholas Shikkis, Nahum McLean, Jason Tucker, Ellen Yilma, Elly Braund, Jennifer Hayes, Monique Jonas, Alejandra Gissier, Niall Egan), Snape Maltings, Suffolk, 2.11.2019. (CS)
Heart-breaking duets from César Morales and Momoko Hirata are a highlight of BRB’s Giselle
United Kingdom Adolphe Adam, Giselle: Dancers of Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Koen Kessels (conductor). Sadler’s Wells, London, 1.11.2019. (JO’D)
Northern Ballet’s Dracula gives Javier Torres a role to sink his teeth into
United Kingdom Northern Ballet’s Dracula: Directed for the screen by Ross MacGibbon and broadcast live from Leeds Playhouse’s Quarry Theatre to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 31.10.2019. (JPr)
In Los Angeles, the Mariinsky Ballet in Balanchine’s sparkling Jewels
United States Fauré, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, George Balanchine’s Jewels: Artists of the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra / Alexei Repnikov (conductor), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 26.10.2019. (JRo)
Renata Shakirova in ‘Rubies’. Photo by Natasha Razina © State Academic Mariinsky Theatre
Best thing about Sadler’s Wells’s Pure Dance is Natalia Osipova the pure dance phenomenon
United Kingdom Natalia Osipova – Pure Dance: Natalia Osipova, Jonathan Goddard, David Hallberg and Jason Kittelberger. Sadler’s Wells, London, 23.10.2019. (JPr)
A quartet of formidable artists collaborate on THE DAY at UCLA’s Royce Hall
United States David Lang, THE DAY: Maya Beiser (cello/performance), Wendy Whelan (dancer), Lucinda Childs (choreographer), Center for the Art of Performance, Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, 19.10.2019. (JRo)
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