Confident new works from the Joffrey Ballet

Por Joseph Houseal, 13 febrero 2020

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Crítica hecha desde Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, Chicago el 12 febrero 2020

Commedia (Christopher Wheeldon)

Mono Lisa (Itzik Galili)

Bliss! (Stephanie Martinez)

The Sofa (Chicago premiere) (Itzik Galili)

The Times are Racing (Chicago premiere) (Justin Peck)

Joffrey Ballet

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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Joseph Houseal

Joseph Houseal is the director of Core of Culture, cultural preservation organization based in Chicago and specializing in the Himalayas and ancient Asia. He has been a contributor to Ballet Review, New York, for 30 years, and a columnist for Buddhistdoor Global for four. Houseal’s writing on dance, from performance to philosophy has appeared in French, Swedish, Chinese, and English. His installation work has appeared in 14 museum exhibitions; held in 5 permanent collections. Houseal is a graduate of St John’s College, Annapolis, and hold a Masters of Philosophy from the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in London.