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Ballet and Dance Reviews

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Choreographers and Composers Collaborate on New Ballets

07/05/201306/05/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Zimmer, Gozzi, Cockeram, Osborn, Baldwin, Garcia Tomas, Choreographics – A Letter to…: Dancers of English National Ballet and English National Ballet School with Composers from the Royal College of Music, The Place, London, 3.5.2013. (JO’D)

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

Fervent Applause for Edward Watson in Mayerling

07/05/201322/04/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Liszt (arranged and orchestrated by Lanchbery), Mayerling: Dancers and Orchestra of the Royal Ballet / Martin Yates (conductor), Sergey Levitin (co-concert master), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 19.4.2013. (JO’D)

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

Beautiful But Bloodless

07/05/201321/04/2013 by Stan

 IndiaIndia Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake: Pathé Live ballet-screening, Godrej Dance Academy Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai, 14.4.2013 (JSM)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Jiten S. Merchant, Mumbai

Ecstasy and Death – Ballet Triple Bill

17/01/201819/04/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Ecstasy and Death – Ballet Triple Bill: Dancers of English National Ballet, Orchestra of English National Ballet, conducted by Gavin Sutherland. London Coliseum, London, 18.4.2013. (JPr)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Jim Pritchard, London

Highs and Lows in Canada National Ballet’s Romeo

13/04/201419/04/2013 by Stan

 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prokofiev/Ratmansky, Romeo and Juliet: Dancers of the National Ballet of Canada, Royal Ballet Sinfonia / David Briskin (conductor), Sadler’s Wells, London, 17.4.2013. (JPr)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Jim Pritchard, London

Imaginative Reworking of Two Stravinsky Ballets

22/04/201314/04/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring & Petrushka: Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre in collaboration with Sadlers Wells, Lidija Bizjak and Sanja Bizjak (piano), Sadler’s Wells, London, 12.4.2013 . (JOD)

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

Duato’s Ballet Pays Tribute to Bach and His Music

08/04/201307/04/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Bach: Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness: Dancers and Orchestra of Mikhailovsky Ballet / Mikhail Tatarnikov (conductor), London Coliseum, London. 5.4.2013  (MMB)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags London, Margarida Mota-Bull

Royal Ballet Conjures Up the Mysterious Orient

08/04/201306/04/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Minkus (orch. Lanchbery) , La Bayadère: Dancers and Orchestra of the Royal Ballet / Valeriy Ovsyanikov (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 5.4.2013. (JOD)

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