dirac Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 A review of American Ballet Theatre by Leigh Witchel for dancelog.nyc. Quote Watching the pas de trois, Camargo sat in a chair at the front as if he were used to asking his friends to perform for him. He knew his story and so did we. Camargo’s Siegfried was energetic and happy. When the Queen Mother presented him with a crossbow so large it took two maidens to carry it, he genuinely took pleasure in its receipt and thought about how and what he was going to hunt. Siegfried had shadows that we saw soon enough, but we got to see his vibrancy as well. Those points became his character. Link to comment
dirac Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 A review of Hamburg Ballet's Nijinsky Gala by Silvia Poletti for Bachtrack. Quote Therefore, this Nijinsky Gala was an occasion to reaffirm the unsaid warning of how insane a war can be, and how it can destroy artists’ inner lives. Besides the colours of the bouquets, the Ukrainian theme appeared, from time to time, in the ribbons adorning the chignons of the girls of the Hamburg Ballet School who opened the show dancing with their bold partners a Gopak, a Ukrainian dance. Or in the adamantine beauty of Olga Smirnova’s purest dance: the two pieces she performed with her partner Jakob Feyerlick represent her story. Her present, as a principal dancer at Dutch National Ballet after her valiant decision to leaving the Bolshoi, embodied in the cerebral, rigorous structures of Hans Van Manen’s intense Trois Gnossiennes (also an occasion to celebrate his 90th birthday); and her academic background, exalted by her performance as the gorgeous, stylised ballerina of Grand Pas Classique, the celebrated tour de force created by another artist signed by exile, Viktor Gvovsky. Link to comment
dirac Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 Two ballet students file a lawsuit against the University of Cincinnati. Quote Two female students allege that the university protected the male ballet dancer at the expense of numerous female dancers, according to the lawsuit from Engel & Martin, LLC. Link to comment
dirac Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 A review of the Ballet of the State Theater Nuremberg by Ilona Landgraf in her blog, "Landgraf on Dance." Quote The ballet of the State Theater Nuremberg recently premiered “Made For Us III” and, in so doing, resumed their project of commissioning ballets from external choreographers (a project originated in 2014). This year, pieces by Bryan Arias and Joseph Hernandez shared the stage. Link to comment
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