Life-changing inspiration in AAADT's third programme

Von Graham Watts, 13 September 2019

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“choreography was effervescent, in colourful costumes that seemed to fizz like cascading fireworks”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, am 10 September 2019

Ounce of Faith (Darrell Grand Moultrie)

Members Don't Get Weary (Jamar Roberts)

Ella (Music by Ella Fitzgerald) (Robert Battle)

Revelations (Alvin Ailey)

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Mark Eric, Kostüme

Khalia Campbell, Tanz

Daniel Harder, Tanz

Renaldo Maurice, Tanz

Johnny Loves Johann, unevenly at the Joyce Theater

Carla Escoda, 14th April

Acclaimed violinist and 2024 MacArthur Fellow Johnny Gandelsman invited four choreographers to join him on a marathon through Bach's six cello suites. His musicianship was the highlight of the evening.

***11

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Atlanta: simply spellbinding

Rebecca Ehrhardt, 15th February

At the start of an ambitious cross-country tour, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is transcendent at Atlanta's historic Fox Theatre.

*****

Foreseeable Future is aimless movement to aimless music at NYCB

Ivy Lin, 9th October

Some excellent individual performances but a disappointing program for Contemporary Choreography I with New York City Ballet.

**111

NYCB's Sara Mearns charts her next act?

Ivy Lin, 4th April

New York City Ballet's Sara Mearns proves that she is a natural contemporary dancer in a self-curated double bill.

****1

Martha Graham does Americana

Ivy Lin, 3rd April

Janet Eilber has done an amazing job of steering the Martha Graham Dance Company into the modern age with multiple mixed programs.

****1

BalletX: Jamar Roberts and Jennifer Archibald top an uneven mixed bill

Carla Escoda, 27th September

BalletX, a contemporary ballet company that prides itself on its diversity and its commitment to commissioning new work, brings an ambitious and mostly successful mixed bill to the Joyce Theater.

****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.

Life-changing inspiration in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's third Sadler's Wells programme