La Sylphide premieres in Atlanta

Par Jenifer Sarver, 19 février 2019

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“I was delighted to truly enjoy one of our great classics being performed so well”

Critique faite à Fox Theatre, Atlanta, le 17 février 2019

La Sylphide (August Bournonville)

Atlanta Ballet

Airi Igarashi, Danse

Sergio Masero-Olarte, Danse

Bret Coppa, Danse

Erica Alvarado, Danse

Irresistible: Justin Peck’s The Wind-Up premieres at NYCB

Carla Escoda, 29th January

Never has Justin Peck seemed more compositionally assured, and paradoxically freer, than in his latest ballet, breaking the mold of past work that mostly celebrated the camaraderie of his generation.

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Royal Danish Ballet bounce through Bournonville's A Folk Tale

Zoë Anderson, 17th October

Though Bournonville himself saw A Folk Tale as his finest work, it’s rarely performed outside Denmark. The Royal Danish Ballet bring fleet-footed buoyancy to it all.

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Pure Bournonville bounce: Johan Kobborg's La Sylphide in Prague

Deborah Weiss, 14th May

The Czech National Ballet bears all the hallmarks of a group of dancers who are hungry to learn and to embody whatever is offered to them.

*****

BRB2 in Carlos Acosta's Classical Selection is full of vitality

Graham Watts, 25th April

With five founding dancers in BRB2, this inaugural dance salad was embellished with other ingredients including the addition of seven members from the main company.

****1

A roller-coaster of diverse dance as ENB celebrates its 70th

Graham Watts, 17th January

A slick and stylish celebration at the Coliseum of this great company's achievements over 70 years.

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The Royal Danish Ballet "an expression of joy" in New York

Ivy Lin, 9th July

The program notes include a quote by August Bournonville that says, "The Dance ... is essentially an expression of joy." And in this short but sweet program the company proved that it can still give a master class in showing the joy of The Dance.

*****

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Jenifer Sarver

Jenifer Sarver was the first American to be hired as soloist with the ballet of the Teatr Wielki in Lodz, Poland, and has also been a soloist with Ireland’s Cork City Ballet, a member of the Slovene National Ballet (Maribor, Slovenia), the Opera na Zamku (Szczecin, Poland), the San Diego Ballet and the California Ballet. Ms. Sarver has also been a guest principal dancer and performed the complete classical repertoire. She has enjoyed two full-time assistant professorships, served as an artistic director for a regional ballet company and taught, choreographed and set repertoire all over the world.