dirac Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 A review of "Nureyev: Legend and Legacy" by Louise Levene in The Financial Times. Quote Quality was, frankly, uneven but the material was well selected, production was slick and there were several outstanding performances. The only decor was a slideshow of Nureyev portraits, his wise, witty gaze blazing out at the stalls. Birmingham’s Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conducted upstage by David Briskin and led by Robert Gibbs’s superb first violin, provided a living backcloth to the dance. Review by Sanjoy Roy in The Guardian. Quote It began somewhat shakily, Guillaume Côté hesitant in Nureyev’s interpolated solo in The Sleeping Beauty which, shorn of dramatic context, in any case feels cut adrift. Two people on stage are already a drama, and Oleg Ivenko (star of The White Crow, Fiennes’ film about Nureyev) and Maia Makhateli fared better in the lilting leans and swaggers of a scene from Gayane – though Xander Parish and Iana Salenko looked oddly mismatched in the following Bayadère duet, she an icy apparition who seems to leave him not just cold, but nonplussed. Link to comment
dirac Posted September 11, 2022 Author Share Posted September 11, 2022 The managing director of Milwaukee Ballet talks about the planning for the new season. Quote There are two primary reasons that this season features what Pauls calls "big story ballets." One is because the Milwaukee Ballet's artistic director Michael Pink was unable to create such extravagant performances with the Covid-19 restrictions and concerns in previous seasons. The other is to get more audience members excited to come back to live performance. Link to comment
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