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Lambrecht Wessels

Lambrecht Wessels

Lambrecht Wessels is a conflict analyst, publicist and avid dance fan living in Amsterdam. He writes about modern and classical dance, and follows Dutch National Ballet and the Netherlands Dance Theater especially. But he also visits dance performances in Belgium, the UK and Scandinavia.

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Glitter and groove with Balanchine in Amsterdam

By Lambrecht Wessels, 13 September 2019

Dutch National Ballet continues its series honouring the great choreographer.

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Glitter and groove with Balanchine in Amsterdam

By Lambrecht Wessels

No slim pickings at Dutch National Ballet's “New Moves”

By Lambrecht Wessels, 1 July 2019

The short programme of new works choreographed by DNB dancers leaves the audience refreshed with enthusiasm.

No slim pickings at Dutch National Ballet's “New Moves”

By Lambrecht Wessels

Arqués fiery Ignite captures the attention at Dutch National Ballet

By Lambrecht Wessels, 14 June 2019

Anna Tsygankova is clearly enjoying her part in Forsythe's Pas/Parts 2018, an exposé of the vocabulary of modern ballet.

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Arqués fiery Ignite captures the attention at Dutch National Ballet

By Lambrecht Wessels

Timeless and uplifting: NDT1 dances Crystal Pite

By Lambrecht Wessels, 2 April 2019

Nederlands Dans Theater 1’s new triple bill premieres Imre Van Opstal and Marne Van Opstal's Take Root alongside works by Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar and Crystal Pite.

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Timeless and uplifting: NDT1 dances Crystal Pite

By Lambrecht Wessels

A Swan Lake of awe inspiring beauty in Amsterdam

By Lambrecht Wessels, 16 March 2019

This Swan Lake is a continued homage to classical female beauty and awe-inspiring dancing. The swans' collective mourning at Siegfried’s betrayal and its consequences are palpable.

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A Swan Lake of awe inspiring beauty in Amsterdam

By Lambrecht Wessels

A great Requiem premieres at Dutch National Ballet

By Lambrecht Wessels, 9 February 2019

Dawson impresses most where the dynamic between utter stillness and his lyrical movements is greatest, and Bryers has composed a beautiful and meditative series of compositions

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A great Requiem premieres at Dutch National Ballet

By Lambrecht Wessels

A boisterous Junior Company showcases experimental choreography in Gouda

By Lambrecht Wessels, 5 February 2019

What the young dancers lack in finesse they make up in boisterousness. Sidorova's dance vocabulary seems endless. Kuindersma's Mesmer radiates into the theatre.

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A boisterous Junior Company showcases experimental choreography

By Lambrecht Wessels

A heartfelt Dame aux camélias at Dutch National Ballet

By Lambrecht Wessels, 15 October 2018

For a ticket to 19th-century romance, head to Amsterdam, where John Neumeier's story will stir your heart and lift you up.

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A heartfelt Dame aux camélias at Dutch National Ballet

By Lambrecht Wessels

Touching Tristan and Isolde enthrals Holland festival audience

By Lambrecht Wessels, 13 June 2018

Sasha Mukhamedov, James Stout and their fellow dancers succeed to drag us off to a romantic tragedy on the British isles on a June evening.

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Tristan and Isolde enthrals Holland festival audience

By Lambrecht Wessels

NDT's Savoir Faire programme is a feast of virtuosi dances

By Lambrecht Wessels, 24 May 2018

Shut Eye (Lightfoot & León) is like an alternating current. Woke Up Blind (Goecke) is entertaining and vulnerable. Pite's work hits the rythmic nail on the head. You want to freeze-frame Pite's dancers, snap a picture and hang it on the wall.

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A feast of virtuosi dances

By Lambrecht Wessels

Junior Company and Ish dancers in Grimm © Michel Schnater

ISH and Dutch National Junior's Grimm is a crowd pleaser

By Lambrecht Wessels, 22 April 2018

A pulsing one hour and 40 minutes for young ballet and hip hop dance fans.

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Junior Company and Ish dancers in Grimm © Michel Schnater

Grimm: A Crowd Pleaser

By Lambrecht Wessels

Rapturous treat for dance and theatre lovers by NDT

By Lambrecht Wessels, 19 December 2017

Dreamlike storytelling in a virtuoso dance-scape.

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NDT: Side B Adrift

By Lambrecht Wessels

Ode to the Master: van Manen bill in Amsterdam

By Lambrecht Wessels, 15 September 2017

As generations of dancers move on and off the stage, working hard for their very short lived moment in the spotlight, we can rest assured that there will be many classic Van Manen pieces in the repertoire for them to dance.

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DNB: Ode to the Master

By Lambrecht Wessels

Summer's over, and Ballet's back in Amsterdam

By Lambrecht Wessels, 12 September 2017

Athletic (modern) classics combined with playful Hans van Manen and romantic Kuindersma make for a great evening. Elisa Badenes and Anna Ol are superb.

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Ballet's back in Amsterdam

By Lambrecht Wessels

Contemplative and powerful evening of entertainment; Made in Amsterdam 1

By Lambrecht Wessels, 11 February 2017

Dutch National Ballet proves its innovative tradition of modern ballet with playful, serious, subtle and powerful pieces.

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Made in Amsterdam 1

By Lambrecht Wessels

Modern Ballet at its current best, Made in Amsterdam 2

By Lambrecht Wessels, 12 February 2017

Wheeldon’s vocabulary, Ratmansky’s Lyricism, Pastor’s roaring engine and Dawson’s mesmerising planetary roaming little prince Edo Wijnen, make for a happy afternoon.

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Made in Amsterdam (2)

By Lambrecht Wessels

Layers of pink and brilliant performances in Dutch National Ballet's Coppelia

By Lambrecht Wessels, 10 December 2016

Coppelia's convincing cartoon world with some great dancing by soloists De Jongh and Camargo and comedic genius by Yanowsky.

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A brilliant Coppelia

By Lambrecht Wessels

Nederlands Dans Theater's Spiritwalking: A Tonic for the Mind

By Lambrecht Wessels, 8 December 2016

It's all there; the virtuoso dancing, brilliant live Philip Glass music, mysteriously connected couples whirled into a subtle feeling of expansion. If your brain lacks a much needed moral and creative boost this is your December pick-me-up.

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NDT: Spiritwalking

By Lambrecht Wessels

And at Scapino Ballet, they partied till they dropped

By Lambrecht Wessels, 17 September 2016

A party you never thought you'd attend with dance and acrobatics to live music is a worthy celebration of 70 years of Scapino Ballet

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Scapino Ballet: TING!

By Lambrecht Wessels

Romantic late summer dancing: Dutch Masters open the season in Amsterdam

By Lambrecht Wessels, 14 September 2016

Dutch summer Romance? Yes, that's a thing. With some virtuoso dancing thrown in for good measure.

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Dutch Masters opens DNB's season

By Lambrecht Wessels

New Moves 2016: Young choreographers of Dutch National Ballet

By Lambrecht Wessels, 24 June 2016

Dutch National Ballet's New Moves 2016 edition proves to be a great success.

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By Lambrecht Wessels

Dutch National Ballet's “Transatlantic”: an energetic summer finale

By Lambrecht Wessels, 11 June 2016

Energetic evening to start your summer. You can cut out Dawson's tableaus and frame them on the wall.

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An energetic summer finale at DNB

By Lambrecht Wessels

A Promise of Things to Come: Scapino Ballet's Let's Dance

By Lambrecht Wessels, 2 June 2016

A bowler hat, two pierrots, a dreamy band, ravens and dancing through the audience make for a great tease of what's to come with Scapino Ballet

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Scapino Ballet: Let's Dance

By Lambrecht Wessels

Shechter's Punching Mirror brings 5* to NDT's new bill

By Lambrecht Wessels, 29 April 2016

NDT present a double bill of works by Leon/Lightfoot and Hofesh Shechter. Virtuoso dancing in Shut Eye whilst Shechter doesn't pull punches with political Clowns: there are so many ways to die on stage this night....

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By Lambrecht Wessels

The Devil Within : NDT's Switch 16

By Lambrecht Wessels, 1 April 2016

NDT offers its dancers a platform to explore their own choreographic skills with Switch 16 - to mixed results.

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By Lambrecht Wessels

Dutch National Ballet's New Moves: the future’s bright

By Lambrecht Wessels, 3 July 2015

New Moves brings together on stage eleven works by young choreographers of Dutch National Ballet. A mixed evening, with some bright ideas.

New Moves: Young Choreographers of Dutch National Ballet

By Lambrecht Wessels

Dutch National Ballet's Ballerina: Showing off on the edge

By Lambrecht Wessels, 14 May 2014

Grand, bold dancing by great Ballerinas! Ballerinas dance their favourite pieces. Sexy and sleek Brandsen. Lovely, deep Wheeldon. Larissa Lezhnina's last night. An absolute go see.

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Dutch National Ballet's Ballerina

By Lambrecht Wessels

NDT in an evening with Hofesh Shechter: Uprising and In Your Rooms

By Lambrecht Wessels, 3 April 2014

NDT 1 Dances Schechter's groovy assaults to the senses, Uprising and In Your Rooms, from a call to uprising to a search for political engagement.

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NDT with Hofesh Shechter: Uprising and In Your Rooms

By Lambrecht Wessels

Relentless humour and lyrical athleticism: Dutch National Ballet's Fairytales

By Lambrecht Wessels, 1 March 2014

Dutch National Ballet's Fairytales is fantastic night out for all ages. Anna Tsygankova as the title role in Firebird and Remi Wörtmeyer as Puck in The Dream stun their Dutch audience with their athleticism and expressiveness. At Amsterdam Muziektheater.

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Dutch National Ballet's Fairytales

By Lambrecht Wessels

Scapino Ballet's 1920s spectacle The Great Bean

By Lambrecht Wessels, 13 February 2014

Scapino Ballet present an entertaining evening in The Great Bean, from modern street-inspired dance to mesmerizing dreamy vistas, and finally a 1920's spectacle. At Rotterdam Schouwburg.

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Scapino Ballet's The Great Bean

By Lambrecht Wessels

Netherlands Dance Theatre Programme III is Utterly Unmissable

By Lambrecht Wessels, 11 February 2014

Netherlands Dance Theatre present Kylián's Heart's Labyrinth, Goecke's Hello Earth and new work by Lightfoot and Leon, Stop-Motion, in Programme III at Stadsschouwburg, Utrecht.

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Nederlands Dance Theatre's Programme III

By Lambrecht Wessels

Nederlands Dance Theatre 1 embody the importance of love

By Lambrecht Wessels, 13 December 2013

An unmissable Christmas mass from awe-inspiring dancers of Nederlands Dance Theatre. Lambrecht Wessels reviews at Lucent Danstheater, Den Hague.

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Nederlands Dance Theatre's Programma II

By Lambrecht Wessels

The Dutch National Ballet's Sleeping Beauty

By Lambrecht Wessels, 12 December 2013

Lambrecht Wessels reviews Dutch National Ballet's Sleeping Beauty at Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam.

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The Dutch National Ballet's Sleeping Beauty

By Lambrecht Wessels