The Royal Ballet, Wheeldon’s Ballet to Broadway: never a dull moment

Lukas B. Brændsrød and Marianela Nuñez in Wheeldon's Fools Paradise

Lauren Cuthbertson in Wheeldon's The Two of Us

Joseph Sissens and Matthew Ball in Wheeldon's Us

Matthew Ball and Joseph Sissens in Wheeldon's Us

Cesar Corrales and Anna Rose O'Sullivan in Wheeldon's An American in Paradise

Christopher Wheeldon's An American in Paris with The Royal Ballet

Por Graham Watts, 11 mayo 2025

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“hybrid style of ballet and Broadway suits him, and he performed with notable bravado and charisma”

Crítica hecha desde Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Londres el 9 mayo 2025

Fool's Paradise (Christopher Wheeldon)

The Two of Us (Christopher Wheeldon)

Us (Christopher Wheeldon)

An American in Paris (Wheeldon) (Christopher Wheeldon)

The Royal Ballet

Koen Kessels, Dirección

Bob Crowley, Diseño de escena, Diseño de vestuario

Natasha Katz, Diseño de iluminación

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Marianela Núñez, Bailarín

Lauren Cuthbertson, Bailarín

Calvin Richardson, Bailarín

Matthew Ball, Bailarín

Joseph Sissens, Bailarín

Anna Rose O'Sullivan, Bailarín

Cesar Corrales, Bailarín

La CND despliega un logrado tríptico neoclásico

Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 10th July

Tres coreografías de registros estilísticos homogéneos, pero capaces de reservar sorpresas gracias a las cualidades y el buen quehacer de la Compañía Nacional de Danza.

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Lucía Lacarra y Matthew Golding nos acercan las distancias

Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 23rd January

Lucía Lacarra y Matthew Golding, también afectados por la separación forzada, proponían una unificación de coreografías preexistentes en un todo unitario para compartir su experiencia vital, fusionando sus movimientos con imágenes proyectadas en pantalla y con una selección musical de carácter íntimo y profundo.

*****

Atlanta Ballet shines in a mixed contemporary program

Rebecca Ehrhardt, 3rd April

Atlanta Ballet's Golden Hour program featured two world premieres and the Atlanta premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour.

*****

NYCB: Ratmansky’s The Naked King is not satire, but good fun

Ivy Lin, 7th February

New York City Ballet presents a very entertaining quadruple bill which includes Alexei Ratmansky’s latest work, The Naked King, showing off the company’s comic talents.

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Les « Racines » inégales du Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris à Bastille

Laurine Mortha, 6th October

Entre une pièce des années 1950 de Balanchine et les deux créations récentes des chorégraphes Mthuthuzeli November et Christopher Wheeldon, le programme mixte néo-classique produit un effet mitigé.

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The Royal Ballet’s Like Water for Chocolate is sumptuous but complex

Amanda Jennings, 1st October

The Royal Ballet’s season opener, Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate, is visually tremendous, very well danced but the many principal and soloist characters are difficult to keep up with.

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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.