Pictures at an exhibition: Ballet Pécs premieres Vasarely Etudes

Von Graham Watts, 02 Juni 2021

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Müpa: Festival Theatre, Budapest, am 28 Mai 2021

Vasarely Etudes (world premiere) (Balázs Vincze, Katalin Ujvári, Molnár Zsolt)

Ballet Pécs

Balázs Cziegler, Bühnenbild

Fruzsina Nagy, Kostüme

Miklós Hepkó, Licht

Balázs Vincze, Licht

Iván Kamarás, Tanz

Atilla Kiss B, Tanz

Teodóra Uhrik, Tanz

Éva Vári, Tanz

Anna Györfi, Sänger

Tamás Kéméndi, Akkordeon

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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.