21st-Century Choreographers celebrated by The Royal Ballet

Par Graham Watts, 19 mai 2021

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“a spontaneous eruption of affection for a live art that had been absent from this stage”

Critique faite à Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Londres, le 18 mai 2021

Within the Golden Hour (Christopher Wheeldon)

Optional Family: a divertissement (Kyle Abraham)

The Statement (Crystal Pite)

Solo Echo (Crystal Pite)

The Royal Ballet

Koen Kessels, Direction

Jay Gower Taylor, Décors

Jasper Conran, Costumes

Peter Mumford, Lumières

Ilaria Martello, Lumières

Dan Scully, Lumières

Crystal Pite, Costumes

Joke Visser, Costumes

Tom Visser, Lumières

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Anna Rose O'Sullivan, Danse

Vadim Muntagirov, Danse

Francesca Hayward, Danse

Valentino Zucchetti, Danse

Yasmine Naghdi, Danse

Ryoichi Hirano, Danse

Leo Dixon, Danse

David Yudes, Danse

Cesar Corrales, Danse

Natalia Osipova, Danse

Marcelino Sambé, Danse

Stanisław Węgrzyn, Danse

Lukas B Brændsrød, Danse

Harry Churches, Danse

Isabella Gasparini, Danse

Hannah Grennell, Danse

Ashley Dean, Danse

Kristen McNally, Danse

Calvin Richardson, Danse

Joseph Sissens, Danse

Christopher Vanderspar, Violoncelle

Robert Clark, Piano

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.

***11

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Programme Y

Anne-Laure Faubert, 8th July

A l’occasion de la 13° édition des Etés de la Danse, l'Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater prend ses quartiers à la Seine Musicale.

Un hommage à Pierre Boulez hétéroclite

Laurine Mortha, 5th December

Avec une soirée mixte réunissant les chorégraphies de Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor et Pina Bausch, l’Opéra de Paris rend hommage au compositeur et chef d’orchestre contemporain Pierre Boulez.

****1

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.

****1

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.

****1

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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 reawakening: 21st-Century Choreographers celebrated by The Royal Ballet