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Sarabande, Nederlands Dans Theater, photo © Prudence Upton

NDT in Sydney: Sweet Dreams are Made of This

June 13, 2013 – 1:36 pm

Nederlands Dans Theater’s season at the Sydney Opera House is united by the dreamlike quality of a quartet of pieces

By valerie | Tagged Danielle Rowe, Jiri Kylian, Nederlands Dans Theater, Paul Lightfoot, Phlip Glass, Sarabande, Sh-Boom!, Shoot the Moon, Silas Henriksen, Sol Leon, Spenser Theberge, Stan Freberg, Sweet Dreams, Webern | Comments (0)

The Bright Stream, final scene, Bolshoi Ballet, photo © Damir Yusupov

The Bolshoi looks on the bright side of life

June 10, 2013 – 9:32 am

When Alexei Ratmansky first heard a recording of Shostakovich’s ballet score for The Bright Stream in 1995, he must have

By valerie | Tagged Adrian Piotrovsky, Alexei Loparevich, Alexei Ratmansky, Anastasia Vinokur, Bolshoi Ballet, Boris Messerer, Denis Medvedev, Denis Savin, Dimitri Shostalovich, Egor Simachev, Fyodor Lopukhov, Ksenia Pchelkina, Maria Alexandrova, Mikhail Lobukhin, Nina Kapstova, Ruslan Skvortsov, Serge Filin, The Bright Stream | Comments (0)

Le Corsaire, the pirates' den, Bolshoi Ballet, photo © Damir Yusupov

Turbans and tutus: the Bolshoi brings Le Corsaire to Australia

June 7, 2013 – 7:47 am

Le Corsaire, as danced by the Bolshoi Ballet, is like a croquembouche. The caramel-wrapped cone of pastry balls sprinkled sugar

By valerie | Tagged Alexei Ratmansky, Andrey Bolotin, Anna Tikhomirova, Bolshoi Ballet, Boris Kaminsky, Maria Alexandrova, Marius Petipa, Mikhail Lobukhin, Pavel Sorokin, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Ruslan Skvortsov, Vladislav Lantratov, Yekena Zaytseva, Yevgeny Ponomaryov, Yuri Burlaka | Comments (2)

Amber Scott and Adam Bull, Dyad 1929, Australian Ballet, photo © Branco Gaica

At the Vanguard: tough and tender was the night

May 2, 2013 – 9:19 pm

Vanguard is a trio of sweets. The first and last are sharp and brittle, a wake-up for the palate. In

By valerie | Tagged Australian Ballet, Bella Figura, Daniel Gaudiello, Dyad 1929, George Balanchine, Jiri Kylian, Joke Visser, Lana Jones, Leanne Stojmenov, Leonide Massine, Ode, Olivia Bell, Paul Hindemith, Steve Reich, The Four Temperaments, Vanguard, Wayne McGregor | Comments (0)

Everything old is new again as Li Cunxin launches his artistic directorship with Stevenson’s Cinderella

April 7, 2013 – 12:59 pm

The Queensland Ballet’s new production of Cinderella begins and ends with two powerful images, the first representing oppression and grief,

By valerie | Tagged Alexei Ratmansky, Andrew Mogrelia, Ben Stevenson, Christopher Wheeldon, Cinderella, Clare Morehen, Frederick Ashton, Hao Bin, Houston Ballet, Li Cunxin, Matthew Lawrence, Meng Ningning, Paul Boyd, Queensland Ballet, Stanton Welch, Thomas Boyd, Tracy Grant Lord, Yu Hui | Comments (2)

Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev in Don Quixote, The Australian Ballet 2013, photo © Jeff Busby

Osipova and Vasiliev: A trip to the moon on gossamer wings

March 18, 2013 – 2:55 am

Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev don’t just dance Don Quixote at a level of perfection we seldom, if ever, see.

By valerie | Tagged Ako Kondo, Amber Scott, Australian Ballet, Chengwu Guo, Don Quixote, Francis Croese, Ivan Vasiliev, Matthew Donnelly, Natalia Ospiova, Reiko Hombo, Rudolf Nureyev, Steven Heathcote | Comments (4)

Sylvie Guillem in Bye by Mats Ek, photo © Bill Cooper

Rearranged by Forsythe and de-glamourised by Ek, Sylvie still shows that perfect line that comes from her ballet beginnings

March 12, 2013 – 7:46 am

In Sylvie Guillem’s production, 6000 Miles Away, William Forsythe’s abstract duet, Rearray, is the brain and Mats Ek’s melancholy solo,

By valerie | Tagged 27’52”, 6000 Miles Away, Bye, David Morrow, Ivo Pogorelich, Jiri Kylian, Massimo Murru, Mats Ek, Nataša Novotná, Rearray, Sylvie Guillem, Václav Kuneš, William Forsythe | Comments (1)

The best came last in Sydney Dance Company’s new look of 2013

March 3, 2013 – 2:02 pm

With De Novo, the umbrella title for Sydney Dance Company’s new triple bill, Rafael Bonachela has put together a program

By valerie | Comments (0)

If you see only one Giselle in your lifetime, make it the Paris Opera Ballet’s

January 31, 2013 – 5:25 am

Anton Dolin, a famous interpreter of Albrecht in Giselle, once said that the heroine of the ballet should not emerge

By valerie | Tagged Adien Bodet, alexandre benois, Amélie Lamoureux, Audric Bezard, Dorothée Gilbert, Emmanuel Thibault, Eugune Polyakov, Giselle, Koen Kessels, Laurent Hilaire, Marie-Agnès Gillot, Mathieu Ganio, Melanie Hurel, Paris Opera Ballet, Patrice Bart, Rudolf Nureyev | Comments (8)

Melissa Hamilton in Trespass, photo © 2013 Royal Opera House and Andrej Uspenski

The metamorphosis of a dark tale of trespass

January 28, 2013 – 1:11 pm

Those with long memories might recall the acrobatic pas de deux, much loved in the Soviet era, for the mythical

By valerie | Tagged Alistair Marriott, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wheedon, Conrad Shawcross, Jonathan Watkins, Kim Brandstrup, Liam Scarlett, Mark Wallinger, Minna More Ede, Royal Ballet, Titian Metamorphosis, Wayne McGregor, WIll Tuckett | Comments (0)

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