Happy new year everyone! Yesterday we tweeted about this great blog post from TenduTV citing globalization as one of ten dance buzzwords for 2012. In our first post of the year, guest blogger Wiebke Schuster proves she’s right on the trend line, with a report from a very British season in Munich: What is “very [...]
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With so many great stories lending themselves to ballet adaptations, one does wonder what has stopped the major ballet companies from putting out more narrative work? Is it Balanchine’s ghost? Lack of appetite for risk? Recently a panel organised by The Arts Desk discussed how companies with public funding ought to be doing more in that regard. At [...]
One of the highlights of National Ballet of Canada’s 60th anniversary season is a gorgeous new version of Romeo and Juliet by Alexei Ratmansky. Amongst the hottest classical choreographers in the world right now, Ratmansky has been churning out one success after another: for ABT a new Nutcracker and a short piece, Dumbarton, and for [...]
Rambert Dance Company are in town until Saturday with a programme that contrasts childlike innocence with the heavy traumas and conflicts from Tennessee Williams’s adult universe. There is plenty of historical interest in the evening’s first piece, Merce Cunningham‘s RainForest: this nature study was choreographed in the student protest year of 1968 in collaboration with [...]
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of their first visit to London, the Mariinsky Ballet left a trail of brilliancy following its three-week residency at Covent Garden. The company brought a selection of works that played to its strengths: from big classical works like Swan Lake and La Bayadère (which showed off a flawless corps de ballet) [...]
Bizet’s Carmen is one of the most successful operas of all time and its popularity has led the way to many choreographic interpretations, deriving more or less directly from Mérimée’s libretto. Two of the most often performed ballet versions are Roland Petit’s for Ballets de Paris – created in 1949 and using Bizet’s original score [...]
