Ballet and Dance Reviews – Page 44 – Seen and Heard International

Ave Maya– Ballet Stars Pay Handsome Tribute to Maya Plisetskaya

26/02/201809/03/2016 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Various Composers, Ave Maya – Ballet Gala in memory of Maya Plisetskaya: Dancers and English Ballet Philharmonic / Valery Ovsyanikov (conductor). London Coliseum, 6.3.2016. (JPr)

Ballerinas Maya Plisetskaya and Luidmila Konovalova at the legendary Russian ballet icon’s 85th birthday gala where Konovalova performed her signature Black Swan pas de deux. — Luidmila Konovalova (r) with
Maya Plisetskaya at her 85th birthday gala

Bleak, Violent Odyssey at Wilton’s has Moments of Surprising Beauty

04/03/201628/02/2016 by John O'Dwyer

United Kingdom Various composers, The Odyssey: Mark Bruce Company, Wilton’s Music Hall, London, 25.2.2016. (J.O’D)

Mark Bruce Company 2016 'The Odyssey' photo by Nicole Guarino — *The Odyssey* photo by Nicole Guarino

BRB Continue their Our Shakespeare Celebrations with a Classic Romeo and Juliet

29/02/201626/02/2016 by Geoff Read

United Kingdom Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Koen Kessels (conductor, Birmingham Hippodrome, 24.2.2016. (GR)

Engaging, Well-Pitched Triple Bill Concludes Resolution 2016

27/02/201621/02/2016 by John O'Dwyer

United Kingdom Various composers, Resolution 2016: Glitch, It Takes Two Too, Ideas in Motion, Salah El Brogy Company, Yukiko Masui, Pro-Motion, The Place, London, 19.02.2016. (J.O’D)

19Feb Yukiko Masui It takes two too3 photo by Mickael Marso Riviere — Yukiko Masui’s *It Takes Two Too*
photo by Mickael Marso Riviere

A Dream of a Start to Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Shakespeare Celebrations

22/02/201620/02/2016 by Geoff Read

United Kingdom Mendelssohn & Chopin, Sir Frederick Ashton Double Bill: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Paul Murphy (conductor), Jonathan Higgins (piano), Birmingham Hippodrome, 17.2.2016. (GR)

120627_The Dream_634.tif — Mathias Dingman as Puck in *The Dream* (c) Bill Cooper

Pina Bausch’s Final Dance Work Comes to London

28/02/201612/02/2016 by John O'Dwyer

United Kingdom Various composers, “…como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si” (Like moss on a stone): Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Sadler’s Wells, London, 11.2.2016 (J.O’D)

Pina Bausch Como el musguito en la piedra; photo credit, Laszlo Szito.

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s Rice: Primal, Elegant, and Moving

08/02/201604/02/2016 by Jane Rosenberg

United States Lin Hwai-min, Rice: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 29.1-2016-31.1.2016. (JRo)

RICE-01-8330_Photo by LIU Chen-hsiang — *Rice* (c) Liu Chen-Hsiang

Slow Pacing Detracts from L.A. Dance Project’s Triple Bill

06/02/201631/01/2016 by Jane Rosenberg

United States Various composers, Peck, Cherkaoui & Millepied (choreography): L.A. Dance Project, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, 29.1.2016-30.1.2016. (JRo)

JaneLADPphoto — *Hearts & Arrows* (Dancers Stephanie Amurao and Aaron Carr)
Photo credit: Rose Eichenbaum

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