The Royal Ballet celebrates Bernstein with 2 world premières

Por Graham Watts, 17 marzo 2018

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Crítica hecha desde Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Londres el 15 marzo 2018

The Age of Anxiety (Liam Scarlett)

Yugen (Sir Wayne McGregor)

Corybantic Games (Christopher Wheeldon)

The Royal Ballet

Koen Kessels, Dirección

Edmund de Waal, Diseño de escena

Shirin Guild, Diseño de vestuario

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Sergey Levitin, Violín

Jean-Marc Puissant, Diseño de escena

Erdem Moralıoğlu, Diseño de vestuario

Robert Clark, Piano

Sarah Lamb, Bailarín

Federico Bonelli, Bailarín

Marcelino Sambé, Bailarín

Mayara Magri, Bailarín

El brillante Lago del Royal Ballet: pureza, lirismo y frescura

Cintia Borges Carreras, 22nd July

El ingenio coreográfico de Scarlett encandila a los amantes de la danza. El cisne de Marianela Núñez y la elegancia aristocrática de Vadim Muntagirov trascienden lo técnico para contar desde la emoción.

*****

London City Ballet’s Momentum: a scintillating mix of old and new

Amanda Jennings, 13th September

Christopher Marney has once again brought together a group of outstanding dancers, superb coaches and brilliant choreography to produce an evening of thoroughly absorbing dance.

*****

Scarlett’s Frankenstein returns to the San Francisco Ballet stage

Terez Rose, 20th March

Seeing Frankenstein in its 2025 incarnation feels worthy and redemptive. It’s as vivid and cinematic as ballet gets.

****1

Drawing from tradition but not in thrall to it: London City Ballet

Carla Escoda, 17th September

While most in the audience at New York's Joyce Theater might not have known the original London City Ballet, their affection was palpable at the close of this program.

****1

Swan Lake: double debuts at the Royal Ballet

Amanda Jennings, 11th May

Two very impressive debuts in the lead roles of Liam Scarlett's Swan Lake with The Royal Ballet, bodes well for the futures of Mariko Sasaki and Joseph Sissens.

****1

Queensland Ballet's Dream: pretty fairytale or dark drama?

Ruth Ridgway, 12th April

The music shimmers and the dancers shine in this twisted tale, a comic ballet but with dark undertones.

***11

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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.

The Royal Ballet celebrates Bernstein with Yugen/The Age of Anxiety/Corybantic Games