United States Amagatsu: Umusuna – Memories Before History: Sankai Juku, Royce Hall, Los Angeles, 16.10.2015 (JRo)
Sankai Juku Dance to the Music of Time in Umusuna
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Overtones of Shakespearian Tragedy in BRB’s Swan Lake at Sadler’s Wells
United Kingdom Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Koen Kessels (conductor), Sadler’s Wells, London, 13.10.2105 (JO’D)
(c) Birmingham Royal Ballet
Ben Duke’s Intriguing One Man Dance Tribute to Milton
United Kingdom Various composers, Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me): Lost Dog, The Place, London, 9.10.2015 (J.O’D)
A Triple Bill from Birmingham Royal Ballet to Gratify, Appetise and Delight
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Kline & Elgar – A Triple Bill from Birmingham Royal Ballet: Dancers of Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Paul Murphy & Philip Ellis (conductors), Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham, 28.9.2015 (GR)
The Mariinsky Ballet’s Broadly Comic and Oddly Unsettling Cinderella in LA
United States Prokoviev, Cinderella (choreography – Alexi Ratmansky): The Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 8.10.2015 (JRo)
More Satisfying Ending for BalletBoyz’ Revised Young Men
United Kingdom Keaton Henson, Young Men: BalletBoyz, Sadler’s Wells, London, 6.10.2015 (J.O’D)
The Magic and Mirth of Twyla Tharp’s Preludes and Fugues and Yowzie
United States Tharp: Twyla Tharp 50th Anniversary Tour: Preludes and Fugues, Yowzie: Twyla Tharp Company, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, 1.10.2015 (JRo)
Ron Todorowski, Amy Ruggiero with pointed finger, John Selya looking away in Yowzie costumes
Disorienting Dance Piece from Jefta van Dinther
United Kingdom Kiers, As It Empties Out, Jefta van Dinther, Sadler’s Wells/Platform Theatre at Central Saint Martins, London, 01.10.2015 (J.O’D)
