Tamara Rojo leads from the front in Akram Khan’s Giselle

Von Mark Pullinger, 19 September 2019

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“an outstanding piece of theatre that deserves the widest possible audience”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, am 18 September 2019

Giselle (Akram Khan)

English National Ballet

Gavin Sutherland, Musikalische Leitung

Tim Yip, Bühnenbild, Kostüme

Mark Henderson, Licht

English National Ballet Philharmonic

Tamara Rojo, Tanz

James Streeter, Tanz

Jeffrey Cirio, Tanz

Stina Quagebeur, Tanz

Isabelle Brouwers, Tanz

Den Atem stocken lassen: der neue Ballettabend in Stuttgart

Rainer Zerbst, 28th June

Drei Werke von Akram Khan, Johan Inger und Itzik Galili schaffen einen atemberaubenden Abend.

*****

Royal Danish Ballet’s Lady Macbeth: Akram Khan works his magic again

Graham Watts, 7th May

An excellent extension to Akram Khan’s growing repertoire of contemporary ballet, Lady Macbeth, his first creation for Royal Danish Ballet, brought out powerful performances from the entire cast.

****1

Akram Khan’s Giselle for ENB at the Coliseum: hauntingly mesmeric

Deborah Weiss, 15th January

ENB have brought Akram Khan’s Giselle to London's Coliseum for the first time. It’s looking better than ever and should not be missed.

*****

‘Osipova/Linbury’: a pot pourri of delights

Deborah Weiss, 10th November

An interesting evening displaying the many facets of Natalia Osipova's talents alongside her equally exciting guests at the Linbury.

****1

Thikra: Night of Remembering – past voices shaping our present

Daniel Pratt, 29th October

Akram Khan in concentrated colour, setting the darkness chiming with Thikra: Night of Remembering at London's Sadler's Wells.

****1

Thikra, la nouvelle création capillotractée d’Akram Khan

Laurine Mortha, 2nd October

Le chorégraphe anglais d'origine bangladaise propose une nouvelle création qui raconte avec une surprenante naïveté narrative un semblant de rituel féminin, confrontant les cultures orientales mais sans créer de dialogue fécond.

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Passion and sincerity: Tamara Rojo leads from the front in Akram Khan’s Giselle