dirac Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Trey McIntyre makes a new piece for San Francisco Ballet. Quote “So it’s really this idea that in life, we grapple with two hungers,” McIntyre says, recapping a core philosophy of the Kalahari Bushmen that has obsessed him for more than a year. “One, the little hunger, is for stuff like coffee or an interview, or a career or all the material needs in life. Even like, this table.” He pauses, flattens his hands against the laminate surface with the wonder of a teenager on an acid trip. “Eventually this table decays and falls apart and there’s another surface that’s more appropriate for holding this cup of coffee, you know? And then there’s the big hunger. The hunger for meaning. For a consciousness bigger than all this.” Link to comment
dirac Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 A review of English National Ballet in 'Le Corsaire' by Louise Levene in The Financial Times. Quote She opted for Anna-Marie Holmes’s version, first made for Boston Ballet in 1997. It isn’t everyone’s favourite — unfocused storytelling, flat ending — but it was vastly improved by Rojo’s inspired choice of designer. Bob “Batman” Ringwood transformed the production into a Technicolor orientalist extravaganza, the stage flooded with supersaturated shades of viridian, violet, scarlet and gamboge. Painterly gauzes and frontcloths whisk us from one scene to the next and stormy seas are whipped up with a wind machine and a bolt of blue parachute silk: a triumph of old-school stagecraft. Link to comment
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