Ballet Nights: another dose of cabaret ballet with highlights

Yasmine Naghdi and Reece Clarke in Asaf Messerer's Spring Waters

Yasmine Naghdi and Reece Clarke in Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet

Laurel Dalley Smith in Laurel by Robert Cohan

James Pett and Travis Clausen-Knight in Nerve Wire

Chloe Keneally in Paquita

Felicity Chadwick in Joshua Junker's 324a with Viktor Erik Emanuel on piano

Von Graham Watts, 25 Februar 2024

Laden, bitte warten...

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“the pair sold the essential narrative of the early yearning of adolescent love with great intensity”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Lanterns Studio Theatre, London, am 23 Februar 2024

Mixed Programme (Asaf Messerer, Sir Robert Cohan, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Marius Petipa, Jordan James Bridge, James Pett, Travis Clausen-Knight)

Dancers of the Royal Ballet

Viktor Erik Emanuel, Klavier

Chloe Keneally, Tanz

Jordan James Bridge, Tanz

Yasmine Naghdi, Tanz

Reece Clarke, Tanz

Felicity Chadwick, Tanz

James Pett, Tanz

Travis Clausen-Knight, Tanz

Cydney Watson, Tanz

Liam Woodvine, Tanz

Laurel Dalley Smith, Tanz

World ballet stars and future talents at Ballet Nights’ Decadance

Vikki Jane Vile, 4th February

Ballet Nights is an ambitious dance project that began two and a half years ago and was the brainchild of founder, Jamiel Devernay-Laurence. Lots to applaud while celebrating its tenth programme.

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Yorke Dance Project impresses in Modern Milestones at the Linbury

Maggie Foyer, 19th January

Yorke Dance Project are in fine form presenting five diverse and engaging works, including new pieces by Christopher Bruce and Liam Francis.

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Ballet Nights: A Grand Finale is the perfect recipe for pleasure

Deborah Weiss, 24th November

A mix of world class performances and interesting new choreography is a bit of a magnet for ballet-goers.

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Yorke Dance Project's Past Present in the Linbury Theatre

Graham Watts, 12th November

An emotional programme of historical reenactments and inspiration

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Martha Graham Dance fields five winners at the Joyce Theater

Carla Escoda, 27th October

Martha Graham's dancers look terrific in the jumble of ancient and recent works that make up Program B at the Joyce.

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David Hughes Dance bring Something Old, Something New... to Aberdeen

Kirsty Morgan, 26th October

From the disturbing to the comical, the beautiful to the weird, David Hughes Dance brought four very different dances to the Lemon Tree theatre in Aberdeen last Saturday. Artistic director, David Hughes, has compiled works from four different choreographers which – as the title Something Old, Something New...

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.