Norwegian National Ballet's Dialogues II: brief but brilliant

Anaïs Touret and Douwe Dekkers in Samantha Lynch's Couch

Claudio Cangialosi and Aishwarya Raut in Akram Khan's Mud of Sorrow

Juan Gil and Johnny McMillan in Sharon Eyal's Inspired by Into the Hairy

Clotilde Tran and Johnny McMillan in Mats Ek's A Sort Of...

Ana Laguna and Yvan Auzely in Mats Ek's A Cup of Coffee

Von Graham Watts, 05 April 2025

Laden, bitte warten...

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“in another laugh-out-loud moment, she poured the coffee into his mouth and stirred it with a spoon”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Oslo Opera House, Main Stage, Oslo, am 3 April 2025

A Sort of... (Mats Ek)

Mud of Sorrow (Akram Khan)

Inspired by Into the Hairy (Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar)

Couch (Samantha Lynch)

A Cup of Coffee (Mats Ek)

Norwegian National Ballet

Clotilde Tran-Phat, Tanz

Johnny McMillan, Tanz

Philipe Lens, Tanz

Nicha Rodboon, Tanz

Anaïs Touret, Tanz

Douwe Dekkers, Tanz

Les duos contrastés de « Dialogues II » au TCE

Julie Jozwiak, 26th April

L'art du duo est à l'honneur au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées dans le cadre de TranscenDanses, avec des pièces courtes mais intenses de Mats Ek, Samantha Lynch, Akram Khan et Sharon Eyal.

***11

Sharon Eyal et Mats Ek à Garnier, ou les dérives de l’amour

Laurine Mortha, 27th March

Sharon Eyal inaugure la soirée avec la re-création d’OCD Love, puis l’Opéra de Paris rend hommage à l’inénarrable chorégraphe Mats Ek, qui fête ses 80 ans cette année, avec la reprise d’Appartement.

****1

Mats Ek's She was black + A Sort Of ...: thrillingly captivating

Maggie Foyer, 6th June

Norwegian National Ballet's highly entertaining double bill of two of Mats Ek's most popular works is enthralling.

*****

Royal Swedish Ballet's Julia and Romeo: surreal and modern

Graham Watts, 21st April

Ek’s vision of the romantic tragedy is seen through a distorted lens, sometimes fascinating, sometimes bemusing.

***11

Ek and Ekman's subversive double bill is enjoyable madness

Vikki Jane Vile, 21st February

The latest double bill from Staatsballett Berlin features witty, high energy and thought provoking works by Mats Ek and Alexander Ekman, though the audience may not fathom their meaning.

***11

A new Mats Ek Rite of Spring a leaving gift for ENB's Tamara Rojo

Graham Watts, 9th November

Ek's second, very different take on Stravinsky's Rite crowns an English National Ballet triple bill extolling the pure joy of dance and exposing the terror of forced marriage.

****1

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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.