“The spirit of Margot” celebrated in The Royal Ballet's Fonteyn gala

Por Graham Watts, 10 junio 2019

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“one famous British ballet Dame paying tribute to another”

Crítica hecha desde Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Londres el 8 junio 2019

El pájaro de fuego (Mikhail Fokine)

La bella durmiente (Rose Adage) (Marius Petipa)

Nocturne (Sir Frederick Ashton)

The Wise Virgins (Sir Frederick Ashton)

Birthday Offering (Sir Frederick Ashton)

Ondine (Shadow pas de deux) (Sir Frederick Ashton)

Sylvia (Les chasseresses) (Sir Frederick Ashton)

Daphnis et Chloé (Mikhail Fokine)

Romeo y Julieta (Balcony pas de deux) (Sir Kenneth MacMillan)

Façade (Tango) (Sir Frederick Ashton)

Le Corsaire (Anna-Marie Holmes, Marius Petipa, Konstantin Sergeyev)

Apparitions (Ballroom scene) (Sir Frederick Ashton)

The Royal Ballet

Emmanuel Plasson, Dirección

Itziar Mendizabal, Bailarín

Nehemiah Kish, Bailarín

Marianela Núñez, Bailarín

Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Bailarín

Romany Pajdak, Bailarín

Fumi Kaneko, Bailarín

Sarah Lamb, Bailarín

Ryoichi Hirano, Bailarín

Zenaida Yanowsky, Bailarín

Mayara Magri, Bailarín

Anna Rose O'Sullivan, Bailarín

Alexander Campbell, Bailarín

Natalia Osipova, Bailarín

David Hallberg, Bailarín

Darcey Bussell, Bailarín

Gary Avis, Bailarín

Vadim Muntagirov, Bailarín

Yasmine Naghdi, Bailarín

Lauren Cuthbertson, Bailarín

Matthew Ball, Bailarín

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

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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.