United 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)
John O’Dwyer
Tale of Witchcraft Told in Dance
United Kingdom Albicastro, Albinoni, Tartini, Valentini, Vivaldi, Witch-hunt (Hexenhatz): Bern Ballett, Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 22.5.2013. (JO’D)
Northern Ballet’s Gatsby Raises Questions
United 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)
Choreographers and Composers Collaborate on New Ballets
United 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)
Fervent Applause for Edward Watson in Mayerling
United 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)
Imaginative Reworking of Two Stravinsky Ballets
United 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)
Royal Ballet Conjures Up the Mysterious Orient
United 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)
Kafka Novella Metamorphoses into Ballet
United Kingdom Frank Moon, The Metamorphosis(choreography by Arthur Pita), Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 20.3.2013 (JOD)