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Ballet and Dance Reviews

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Conviction and Daring in Eva Recacha’s Easy Rider

13/05/201427/04/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom    Easy Rider, Eva Recacha/The Place: The Place, London, 26.0.2014 (J.O’D)

Eva Recacha Easy Rider Photo by Chris Nash
Eva Recacha Easy Rider Photo by Chris Nash

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Birmingham Royal Ballet launch City’s International Dance Festival with Verve

01/06/201427/04/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Three Short Works: Quatrain; Kin; Les Rendezvous: Artists of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Philip Ellis (Conductor). The Crescent, Birmingham, 24:4:2014 (GR).

 

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Crystal Pite’s Choreographed Encounters Based on The Tempest

13/05/201426/04/2014 by Stan
Photo (c) Crystal Pite
Photo (c) Crystal Pite

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Belton, The Tempest Replica: Kidd Pivot/Crystal Pite, Sadler’s Wells, London, 25.4.2014 (J.O’D)

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Raw Physical Power from Bourne’s Male Swans

01/06/201424/04/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake: New Adventures, Matthew Bourne (director/choreographer) Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 23.04.2014 (SRT)

Chris Trenfield as The Swan in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake.  Photo by Helen Maybanks
Chris Trenfield as The Swan in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Photo by Helen Maybanks

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Eifman’s Anna Karenina Harks Back to Choreography Soviet Style

13/05/201420/04/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Anna Karenina: Saint Petersburg Eifman Ballet, London Coliseum, London, 19.04.2014 (J.O’D)

Eifman Ballet in 'Anna Karenina'  photo by Hana Kudryashova
Eifman Ballet in ‘Anna Karenina’ photo by Hana Kudryashova

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Dance with Talk Doesn’t Quite Come Off

13/05/201417/04/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Various Composers, If Play Is Play…: HeadSpaceDance, Royal Opera House (Linbury Studio Theatre), London, 16.04.2014 (J.O’D)

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Eifman Offers Halfway House Between Classical Ballet and Moderrn Dance

13/05/201416/04/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom    Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Massenet (recorded), Rodin: Saint Petersburg Eifman Ballet, London Coliseum, London, 15.4.2014 (J.O’D)

Eifman Ballet in 'RODIN' Lyubov Andreyeva as Camille, Oleg Gayshev as Rodin photo by Souheil Michael Khoury
Eifman Ballet in ‘RODIN’ Lyubov Andreyeva as Camille, Oleg Gayshev as Rodin photo by Souheil Michael Khoury

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Two Stravinsky Ballets Become One in Fabulous Production

13/05/201414/04/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Stravinsky,  The Rite of Spring & Petrushka: Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre/Sadler’s Wells, Royal Ballet Sinfonia / David Brophy (conductor), Sadler’s Wells, London, 11.04.2014 (J.O’D)

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