Thursday, May 12

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Reviews of Northern Ballet in "Casanova."

Bachtrack

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This was five years to the day since my last viewing of Kenneth Tindall’s Casanova  and much has changed in those intervening years not least that Federico Bonelli has recently succeeded the long-serving David Nixon as Northern Ballet’s artistic director. Marking the beginning of Bonelli’s tenure with this revival of Casanova seemed an apposite statement confirming Northern Ballet’s tradition for ballet theatre and reaffirming Tindall’s role as Resident Choreographer. This, his first full-length ballet, mixes a creative cocktail of grandiose design, inventive choreography and a cinematic score into an epic adventure of absorbing dance theatre.

Broadway World

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Kerry Muzzey's score brings a heavy, melancholy and fine sense of drama but as the plot develops it becomes a little repetitive and Casanova's liaisons with his various lovers lose their individual identity.

 

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A review of Rome Opera Ballet by Silvia Poletti for Bachtrack.

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Martínez’ Le Corsaire is a new 21st-century ballet created in Romantic French style. It's somewhat similar to Manuel Legris’ Sylvia, currently on stage in Milan, with which it shares a tight, fluent narrative built on an extremely richly ballet vocabulary, whose range goes from the refined footwork of the Romantic era to the more expressive neoclassical movements, together with some virtuosic bravura moments and a little touch of lively character dance. All this gives the contemporary audience the flavour and the beauty of ballet, boldly and masterly performed. It should come as no surprise: Martínez, as Legris, is a former étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet and he deeply understands the reasons and the possibilities of development of the classic idiom in purity.

 

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A preview of the Nureyev Legend and Legacy Gala by Teresa Guerreiro for CultureWhisper.

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The programme was put together by the former Royal Ballet principal Nehemiah Kish and will be hosted by former Royal Ballet Director Dame Monica Mason, who was one of Nureyev's stage partners, and Ralph Fiennes, director of the 2018 film The White Crow, which tells the story of Nureyev's defection.