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Ballet and Dance Reviews

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Uncertainty and Delays Affect Performance by Birmingham Royal Ballet

22/10/201317/10/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Hindson, E=mc2; Walton, Tombeaux; Jeffes, ‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Café: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Paul Murphy (conductor), Sadler’s Wells, London, 15.10.2013 (JO’D)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags John O'Dwyer, London

Peter Wright’s Sleeping Beauty in great hands (and legs) with BRB

22/10/201315/10/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Sleeping Beauty: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Koen Kessels (conductor), Birmingham Hippodrome, 10.10.2013 (GR).

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Birmingham, Geoff Read

Cedar Lake’s Dance Trilogy Impresses Scotland

15/10/201313/10/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Various Composers: Indigo Rose, Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue, Necessity, Again: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, 12.10.2013 (SRT)

NECESSITY, AGAIN, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Baden Baden, Germany.
NECESSITY, AGAIN, Cedar Lake Contemporary Photo (c) Jane Hobson

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Edinburgh, Simon Thompson

Transylvanian Dance Encounters in Jack the Ripper’s Haunts

15/10/201312/10/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Various Composers, Dracula: Mark Bruce Company, Wilton’s Music Hall, London, 11.10.2013. (JO’D)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags John O'Dwyer, London

Interface between Humans and Technology in McGregor’s New Dancework

15/10/201312/10/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom A Winged Victory For The Sullen:Atomos, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Sadler’s Wells, London, 9.10.13. (JO’D)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags John O'Dwyer, London

Wonderfully Versatile Dance Trilogy from Birmingham Royal Ballet

11/03/202306/10/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom E=mc2/Tombeaux/Still Life at the Penguin Café: A triple bill of ballets danced by dancers from Birmingham Royal Ballet, all choreographed by David Bintley, with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Paul Murphy (Conductor), Birmingham Hippodrome, 3.10.2013. (GR)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Birmingham, Geoff Read

Elemental Forces Drive Lucy Guerin’s “Weather”

07/10/201305/10/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Lucy Guerin (with dancers from the premiere season), “Weather,”  Lucy Guerin Inc.,  Royce Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, 4.10.13 (JRo)

 

Lucy Guerin inc_WEATHER__1-743_Image_by_Heidrun_Lohr
Lucy Guerin  “Weather”
Photo: Heidrun Lohr

 

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Concert Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Jane Rosenberg, Los Angeles

Dancers Focus on Movement and the Space Around

07/10/201304/10/2013 by Stan

 Dessner/Peck,  Lang/Millepied, Bryars/Forsythe:  L. A. Dance Project, Sadler’s Wells, London, 3.10.2013 (JO’D)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags John O'Dwyer, London
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