Bowie and Queen at the ballet

Par Hilary Stroh, 06 mai 2016

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“the kind of dancing, in short, that had the audience on the edge of their seats,”

Critique faite à Kennedy Center: Eisenhower Theater, Washington, le 5 mai 2016

Mercury Half-Life (Trey McIntyre)

Création (Edwaard Liang)

The Washington Ballet

Philosophy amid movement in San Francisco Ballet’s Dance Innovations

Terez Rose, 13th February

The ballet culminates with fouettés, bravura leaps from the oversized ensemble and a rousing finish with all 44 dancers onstage. It was an exuberant end to an intelligent, satisfying production, both of thought and movement.

****1

Pure dance with joyful power

Graham Watts, 7th June

An exciting London season closes with a glimpse of where ballet is headed, San Francisco style.

*****

The solace of love in San Francisco Ballet’s Program 5: Lyric Voices

Jaime Robles, 27th March

There is a kind of purity to Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem, and a very human sense of longing and loss.

****1

Unbound Festival continues with superb dancing

Jaime Robles, 24th April

Benjamin Freemantle danced the opening solo, gorgeously, in the role of the grandfather as a dreamy young Adonis.

****1

Harlem, Funk and a bit of Schubert

Hilary Stroh, 7th March

It’s not about being on the biggest stage that matters, but what you do on any stage at all – dance like there is no-one watching. But, happily in this case, we are.

****1

Angel Corella’s Pennsylvania Ballet at the Joyce

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 29th March

Pennsylvania Ballet looked very good in this opening show, their first in New York since Angel Corella took over as Artistic Director

***11

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Hilary Stroh

Hilary is an independent scholar and academic historian, based in DC. She has a background in violin, piano and ballet. Educated at Dublin and Cambridge, she has recently published her first two books.

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