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John O’Dwyer

Dancer Demonstrates Strength and Vulnerability

10/06/201302/06/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Stravinsky/Meryl Tankard, The Oracle: Paul White (dancer), Philharmonia Orchestra/ Esa-Pekka Salonen (recorded), Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, 31.5.2013. (JO’D)

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

Tale of Witchcraft Told in Dance

29/05/201324/05/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Albicastro, Albinoni, Tartini, Valentini, Vivaldi, Witch-hunt (Hexenhatz): Bern Ballett, Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 22.5.2013. (JO’D)

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

Northern Ballet’s Gatsby Raises Questions

20/05/201316/05/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Richard Rodney Bennett CBE (orch. Longstaff, Sutherland), The Great Gatsby: Artistes of Northern Ballet, Northern Ballet Sinfonia / John Pryce Jones (music director/conductor), Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 14.5.2013. (JO’D)

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

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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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

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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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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Kafka Novella Metamorphoses into Ballet

25/03/201323/03/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Frank Moon, The Metamorphosis(choreography by Arthur Pita), Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 20.3.2013 (JOD)

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