dirac Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 A review of Ballet Zurich by Ilona Landgraf in her blog, "Landgraf on Dance.: Quote The Ballet Zurich’s new triple bill Timekeepers is a testament to a wind of change that has swept through the company since Cathy Marston took the reins as artistic director last August. Twenty new faces joined the company, and many others left to follow the previous artistic director, Christian Spuck, to the State Ballet Berlin. I was told that, despite initial hesitation, the Ballet attracts large audiences to its performances. The premiere of Timekeepers was indeed very well attended. Its program combined two world premieres – Meryl Tankard’s For Hedy and Mthuthuzeli November’s Rhapsodies – with Bronislava Nijinska’s Les Noces (1923). Each of the three pieces comprises music that premiered almost exactly one-hundred years ago. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 A review of New York City Ballet by Carla Escoda for Bachtrack. Quote New York City Ballet paid tribute to Jerome Robbins on the opening of its winter season with Fancy Free, about three sailors on shore leave looking for some action, and In the Night, about three couples who have mixed feelings about the action they are getting. Also on tap was The Four Seasons, in which a throng of dancers indulge in outdoor flirtations in all kinds of weather. Part classical ballet spoof and part exercise in bravura, Seasons takes its hummable score from the third act ballet of the 19th century Italian opera I Vespri Siciliani plus other bits of Verdi. (As a humorous reminder, the composer’s name is painted in a huge font on the backdrop above an enormous lyre and putti.) The opening night cast brought it home. Link to comment
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