Ballet Nights makes an impressive and unforgettable Scottish debut

Sophie Martin and Joan Ivars Ribes in David Dawson's On the Nature of Daylight

Steven McRae in his own Czardas

Caspar Lench in Joshua Junker's 324a

BlacBrik (Nahum McLean and Darius Drooh) in their Death of the Bachelors

Constance Devernay-Laurence in Christopher Wheeldon's I Married Myself

Tyrone Singleton and Constance Devernay-Laurence in MacMillan's Elite Syncopations

Par Kathy Elgin, 08 juillet 2025

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“Darrell’s exquisite choreography had Mutso questing, yearning and plaintive, arms outstretched”

Critique faite à Theatre Royal, Glasgow, le 4 juillet 2025

I Married Myself (Christopher Wheeldon)

Divided (Diana Loosemore)

Five Rückert Songs (excerpt) (Peter Darrell)

Death of The Bachelors (Nahum McLean, Darius Drooh)

On the Nature of Daylight (David Dawson)

Czardas (Steven McRae)

324a (Joshua Junker)

Splice (Ekleido)

Infant Spirit (Marco Goecke)

Elite Syncopations (excerpt) (Sir Kenneth MacMillan)

Ballet Nights

Jamiel Devernay-Laurence, Mise en scène

Constance Devernay-Laurence, Danse

Eve Mutso, Danse

BlacBrik

Sophie Martin, Danse

Joan Ivars Ribes, Danse

Steven McRae, Danse

Caspar Lench, Danse

Hannah Ekholm, Danse

Faye Stoeser, Danse

Andrew Cummings, Danse

Kevin Poeung, Danse

Tyrone Singleton, Danse

Viktor Erik Emanuel, 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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Kathy Elgin

After a career in publishing, Kathy Elgin turned her enthusiasm for dance into a real job by joining the late, great John Percival, Dance Critic of The Times, in his re-launch of Dance and Dancers magazine in 1981. She was later delighted to join its rival, The Dancing Times, as Scottish correspondent until the magazine’s sad demise in 2022. She lives in Edinburgh.