Dance
Bolshoi Ballet dismisses world star Nikolai TsiskaridzeSunday, 09 June 2013
The celebrated star of the Bolshoi, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, has been told his contracts will not be renewed when they expire at the end of this month - an effective dismissal for Russia's flamboyant and outspoken ballet icon. The dancer is currently... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Perm: To Russia With RomeoSunday, 09 June 2013
If you look at a map of Russia, you will find the city of Perm just west of the spine of the Ural Mountains which divides European Russia from Asia, about 720 miles north-east of Moscow. Just under two hours away by plane, you only understand the... Read more... |
Mayerling, The Royal BalletThursday, 06 June 2013
So last night the Royal Ballet’s first couple, at shockingly short notice, gave their last performance with the company, in MacMillan’s Mayerling, a terrifying, piteous experience that I know I’ll never see surpassed. Johan Kobborg and Alina... Read more... |
iTMOi, Akram Khan Company, Sadler's Wells TheatreFriday, 31 May 2013
When the public “got” or did not “get” the original Rite of Spring of Nijinsky and Stravinsky exactly 100 years ago this week, they couldn't call on emotional logic or aesthetic familiarity or symbolic recognition to help. Only imaginative reflex... Read more... |
Raven Girl, Royal Ballet/ Witch-Hunt, Bern Ballett/ The Great Gatsby, Northern BalletSaturday, 25 May 2013
Ballet is telling stories again. Last night Wayne McGregor’s debut as a narrator followed hot on the heels of Cathy Marston’s Witch-Hunt for Bern Ballett, both in the Royal Opera House complex, and Northern Ballet’s visit to London with David Nixon’... Read more... |
Birmingham Royal Ballet, Layton/Bintley/Ashton, Sadler's WellsTuesday, 21 May 201323-27 October, Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2 programmes of six ballets, Sadler's Wells 25-27 Oct, Autumn Celebration! presents Joe La yton's The Grand Tour, Bintley's new Olympics ballet Faster Higher Stronge r, and Ashton's The Dream. Booking:... Read more... |
New works Binet/Whitley/Mangiola, Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal O pera HouseTuesday, 21 May 20133 new contemporary ballet creations, 21-24 Nov (triple bill) b y Robert Binet, Alex Whitley and Paolo Mangiola. Booking: http://www.ro h.org.uk Read more... |
Antonio Gades' Fuenteovejuna, Sadler's WellsTuesday, 21 May 20137-19 February: The annual Flamenco Festival London will featureartists including Latin Grammy Award-winning Vicente Amigo, gypsy flamenc o dancer Manuela Carrasco, and the great Rafael Amargo and includes commem oration of Federico Garcia Lorca's... Read more... |
The Snowman, Peacock TheatreTuesday, 21 May 201328 November-6 January, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, The Snow man, Peacock Theatre A 15th year for the traditional Christmas family e ntertainment based on Raymond Briggs' classic book about a boy who takes a night-time flight with a snowman.... Read more... |
Hofesh Shechter Company, Brighton Corn ExchangeTuesday, 21 May 2013Hofesh Shechter Company, In Good Company, 4-date tour: New c horeography by five dancers in Shechter's company, Sam Coren, James Finne more, Philip Hulford, Yeji Kim and Sita Ostheimer. Tuesday 19 June, Bri ghton Dome, Corn Exchange, www.... Read more... |
The Dream/Song of the Earth, Royal BalletTuesday, 21 May 20131 Feb-5 March, 6 performances of a classic British genius doub le bill of Ashton's deliciously erotic The Dream (based on Shakespeare's pl ay A Midsummer Night's Dream)... Read more... |
Royal Ballet, The Wind in the Willows, Linbury Studio TheatreTuesday, 21 May 201312 Dec-5 Jan (Linbury Studio Theatre), The Wind in the Willows(30 pfs). Will Tuckett's charming stagework based on the Kenneth Grahame c hildren's classic has a delicious dressing-up box quality. 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28, December, 2... Read more... |
