Freshly hatched: Gauthier Dance's Dying Swans Project

Por Graham Watts, 20 abril 2021

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“a superb summary of the psychological frustrations of a solitary pandemic lockdown”

Crítica hecha desde Theaterhaus, Stuttgart el 16 abril 2021

la Cigna (World premiere) (Mauro Bigonzetti)

Flatternd (World premiere) (Bridget Breiner)

Off White (World premiere) (Virginie Brunelle)

Silent Swan (World premiere) (Kinsun Chan)

drops (World premiere) (Edward Clug)

Fallen Wings (World premiere) (Dominique Dumais)

AELLΩ (World premiere) (Andonis Foniadakis)

Emovere (World premiere) (Itzik Galili)

Covid Cage (World premiere) (Eric Gauthier)

Kamma (World premiere) (Smadar Goshen)

Taleb’s Theory (World premiere) (Anita Hanke)

Swanny Side of Life (World premiere) (Guillaume Hulot)

Oblong Blur (World premiere) (Nicki Liszta)

all tomorrow's parties (World premiere) (Constanza Macras)

We Were Many (World premiere) (Kevin O'Day)

Oloris Oram (World premiere) (Elisabeth Schilling)

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Garazi Perez Oloriz, Bailarín

Nora Brown, Bailarín

Barbara Melo Freire, Bailarín

Bruna Andrade, Bailarín

Alessio Marchini, Bailarín

Shori Yamamoto, Bailarín

Anneleen Dedroog, Bailarín

Izabela Szylinska, Bailarín

Andrew Cummings, Bailarín

Theophilus Veselý, Bailarín

Shawn Wu, Bailarín

Jonathan dos Santos, Bailarín

Louiza Avraam, Bailarín

Sidney Elizabeth Turtschi, Bailarín

Luca Pannacci, Bailarín

Mark Sampson, Bailarín

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***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.

Freshly hatched: 16 new choreographies in Gauthier Dance's Dying Swans Project