Virtuoso dancing in Hungarian National Ballet's Laurencia

Von Graham Watts, 11 März 2020

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“Tatiana Melnik is a rare jewel in the company’s crown”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Erkel Színház (Erkel Theatre), Budapest, am 6 März 2020

Laurencia (Vakhtang Chabukiani, Mikhail Messerer)

Hungarian National Ballet

Pavel Sorokin, Musikalische Leitung

István Rózsa, Bühnenbild

Nóra Rományi, Kostüme

Tatiana Melnik, Tanz

Gergely Leblanc, Tanz

Cristina Balaban, Tanz

Lili Felméry, Tanz

Iurii Kekalo, Tanz

Jessica Carulla Leon, Tanz

Hungarian State Opera Orchestra

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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.