United States The Art of Falling: Hubbard Street and The Second City, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 6.11.2015-8.11-2015. (JRo)
Hubbard Street and The Second City: A Cocktail of Comedy and Dance in LA
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Rambert’s Most Successful Triple Bill in Three Years
United Kingdom Kats-Chernin, Schoenberg, Rolling Stones, Love, Art & Rock’n’Roll: Rambert, Rambert Orchestra / Paul Hoskins (director), Sadler’s Wells, London, 3.11.2015. (J.O’D)
Adam Blyde and Miguel Altunaga ©Tristram Kenton
Subtle and Melancholic Balletic Meditation on Odyssean Themes
United Kingdom Various composers, No Lander: Riccardo Buscarini/TIR Danza/Artstrust Productions, The Place, London, 28.10.2015 (J.O’D)
Nureyev’s Spirit Lives on in ENB’s Romeo and Juliet
United Kingdom Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet (Rudolf Nureyev Production): Dancers of English National Ballet and the English National Ballet Philharmonic / Gavin Sutherland (conductor). Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes, 22.10.2015. (JPr)
(c) Bill Cooper
Louis XIV and Elgar Feature on BRB’s Triple Bill
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Montague, Theme and Variations; Enigma Variations, The King Dances: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Paul Murphy (conductor) Sadler’s Wells, London, 16.10.2015 (J.O’D)
Sankai Juku Dance to the Music of Time in Umusuna
United States Amagatsu: Umusuna – Memories Before History: Sankai Juku, Royce Hall, Los Angeles, 16.10.2015 (JRo)
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)