Sweden Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Soloists, Gothenburg Opera Orchestra, amateur dancers, Henrik Schaefer (conductor), Gothenburg Opera main stage, 30.5.2015 (NS)
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A Choreographer Explores What We Lose When We Forget
United States Memoriam (In Memory of Memory): MamLuft&Co. Dance, Jeanne Mam-Luft (artistic director), Taft Theatre, Cincinnati, Ohio. 22.5.2015 (RDA)
Franco-Belgian Collaboration Brings Dance to Bach’s Music
United Kingdom J.S. Bach, Partita 2: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Boris Charmatz, Amandine Beyer, Rosas, Sadler’s Wells, London, 22.5.2015 (J.O’D)
Latest Intake to London Contemporary Dance School Show Considerable Promise
United Kingdom Various composers, EDge on tour: London Contemporary Dance School, The Place, London, 19.5.2015 (J.O’D)
Sex-Appeal Trumps Subtlety in Tania Pérez-Salas’s Ex-Stasis and Made in Mexico
United States Tania Pérez-Salas, Passion in Dance: Ex Stasis, Made in Mexico (Macho Man), Compañía De Danza, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 15.5.15-17.5.15 (JRo)
Whitley’s Frames Captures Zeitgeist in Rambert Triple Bill
Whitley’s Frames Captures Zeitgeist in Rambert Triple Bill United Kingdom, Bjarnason, Bryars, Higgins, Triple Bill: Rambert, Rambert Orchestra / Paul Hoskins (conductor), Tredegar Town Band / Ian Porthouse (conductor), Sadler’s Wells, London, 12.5.2015 (J.O’D) Frames Dancers: Miguel Altunaga, Carolyn Bolton, Simone Damberg Würtz, Daniel Davidson, Edit Domoszlai, Liam Francis, Julia Gillespie, Brenda Lee Grech, Dane … Read more
Performers Combine Medieval Song with Contemporary Dance
United Kingdom Various 13th Century Composers, d’avant: Sasha Waltz & Guests, Southbank Centre, London, 6.5.2015 (JO’D)
Ex-Bolshoi Dancer Osipova Triumphs in Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée
United Kingdom Ferdinand Hérold (arr. John Lanchbery), La Fille mal gardée: Dancers of The Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Barry Wordsworth (conductor). Relayed from Royal Opera House, Covent Garden to Empire Cinema, Basildon, 5.5.2015. (JPr)
