dirac Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 Japanese dancers win gold at the USA International Ballet Competition. Quote The last time a Japanese won a gold medal in the contest was when Shiori Kase vied for the senior women’s division in 2014. Toku, 21, from Kobe in western Japan, won in the senior women’s division and Sasaki, 24, from Osaka Prefecture, won in the senior men’s division. Link to comment
dirac Posted June 25, 2023 Author Share Posted June 25, 2023 A review of the West Australian Ballet by Rita Clarke for Limelight magazine. Quote GAINSBOURG sizzles with power and physical agility. Alzaim’s choreographic style is musical and funny. His dancers catch the floodtide of movement, often dancing on the spot with arms and limbs thrusting into the smoky air. There is almost non stop activity with episodes of waiters cavorting with flapping napkins or black round trays. In between there are tender and expressive duets between Osma and his muses Birkin (Dayana Hardy Acuna) Brigitte (Asja Petrovski) and Lizzie (Polly Hilton). Link to comment
dirac Posted July 3, 2023 Author Share Posted July 3, 2023 A review of American Ballet Theatre by Ivy Lin for Bachtrack. Quote And what a complex story! I read the synopsis several times before the show, reread it during intermissions, and still had a hard time keeping up. The long first act is especially expositional, as we are introduced to the star-crossed lovers Tita and Pedro (Cassandra Trenary and Herman Cornejo), Tita’s dictatorial mother Mama Elena (Christine Shevchenko), Tita’s sister Rosaura (Hee Seo), the other sister Gertrudis (Catherine Hurlin), the family cook Nacha (Luciana Paris) and the kindly Dr. John (Thomas Forster). The storyline includes Pedro and Rosaura’s baby that doesn’t respond to anyone nursing him than Tita, a meal that causes guests to orgasm uncontrollably, the cook’s flashbacks of a lost love, and … you really have to read and reread the synopsis. Link to comment
dirac Posted July 3, 2023 Author Share Posted July 3, 2023 A review of the English National Ballet in "Cinderella" by Sarah Crompton in The Observer. Quote If one quality characterises Christopher Wheeldon’s career – which ranges from the Royal Ballet to Broadway and many points in between – it is his desire to create work that audiences can lose themselves in. As someone who grew up in rural England and fell in love with dance completely out of the blue, watching Frederick Ashton’s chickens in a television screening of La Fille Mal Gardée, he has a contagious delight in the wonder of it all. Link to comment
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