Our pick this week is Oberon’s Grove account of Ashley Bouder‘s revelatory performance in Donizetti Variations, followed by equally powerful dancing from four other NYCB principals in Stravinsky Violin Concerto: The audience were clearly bedazzled by Ashley’s prodigious pirouettes, flashing jumps and the fiorature of her footwork, calling the ballerina and her dashing cavalier Andrew [...]
From the monthly archives:
May 2010
Our guest blogger Carling Talcott describes a happy event that took place at the Royal Danish Ballet after their M/K Danseur Noble premiere last week. Read her account of this all-male program here. I contemplated going home right after the performance ended, but at the last minute decided to stop by the reception upstairs in [...]
In an interesting piece for The new Criterion novelist Laura James recently debated the watering-down of meaning and depth in modern ballet, arguing that: If these dances were houses, no one would be able to live in them. And no one does. I think I might like to live inside Chroma though. Just for a [...]
When we spoke to choreographer Kim Brandstrup earlier this year we were intrigued by his ongoing project with The Royal Danish Ballet, a company we have been lucky enough to visit recently. Kim was working on two matching ballets, one all-male, another all-female which would premiere days apart in different mixed bills. When we found [...]
We’ve been sharing a “cult blog post of the week” in our Facebook page for over a month now and as we are getting good feedback on this initiative we have decided to do it over here as well. Starting this week we’ll pick one favourite dance blog post and invite you to visit it. [...]
As the 2009/2010 Royal Ballet season nears its final stretch we send it off in style. To celebrate Balanchine’s glittery Symphony in C which closes the season together with McGregor’s Chroma and Wheeldon’s Tryst, we invited principal dancers Roberta Marquez and Steven McRae to talk to us and pose for a Fred-and-Ginger photo shoot. We [...]
