A showcase for Ukrainian ballet at Sadler's Wells

Par Graham Watts, 08 septembre 2021

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“de Froberville returned to partner Francesco Gabriele Frola in a fizzing Diana and Actaeon showpiece”

Critique faite à Sadler's Wells Theatre, Londres, le 7 septembre 2021

System A/I (World premiere) (Ludovic Ondiviela)

Grand Pas Classique (Victor Gsovsky)

Suite en Blanc (Serge Lifar)

Le Corsaire (excerpt) (Marius Petipa)

Lisova Pisnya (The Forest Song) (Adagio) (Vakhtang Vronsky)

The Dying Swan (Mikhail Fokine)

La Bayadère (excerpt) (Marius Petipa)

Five Tangos (Hans van Manen)

Diana and Actaeon (excerpt) (Agrippina Vaganova)

Taras Bulba (Gopak) (Rostislav Zakharov)

Don Quixote (suite) (Marius Petipa)

Ballet de l'Opéra National d'Ukraine

Alexander Ingram, Direction

Matthew Ball, Danse

Mayara Magri, Danse

Denys Cherevychko, Danse

Natalia de Froberville, Danse

Olesia Shaytanova, Danse

Christine Shevchenko, Danse

Isaac Hernández, Danse

Cesar Corrales, Danse

Leo Dixon, Danse

Yuliia Moskalenko, Danse

Volodymyr Kutuzov, Danse

Daniil Silkin, Danse

Anna Muromtseva, Danse

Fernando Montaño, Danse

Francesco Gabriele Frola, Danse

L'hommage vibrant de l'Opéra de Paris à Patrick Dupond

Laurine Mortha, 23rd February

Deux ans après le décès de Patrick Dupond, l'hommage prit la forme d'une somptueuse soirée de gala, avec le défilé du Ballet et l'interprétation de trois œuvres emblématiques du parcours du danseur.

*****

National Ballet of Canada runs the gamut from sci-fi to suspendu

Gianmarco Segato, 21st March

National Ballet of Canada adds three new works to its repertoire with cutting-edge pieces by William Yong and Emma Portner as well as Serge Lifar's early 20th-century paean to classicism.

****1

Ivan Putrov's Against the Stream gala unearths some gems

Graham Watts, 7th April

A well-curated gala with gravitas; showcasing several works and dancers rarely, if ever, seen in London.

****1

Australian Ballet's Imperial Suite

Pia Savoie, 2nd May

Pia Savoie reviews the Australian Ballet in Imperial Suite at the Sydney Opera House, combining the two classics Ballet Imperial by Balanchine and Lifar's Suite en Blanc.

****1

San Francisco Ballet's Program 7

Terez Rose, 29th April

San Francisco Ballet's Program 7 presents a satisfying triple-bill event, featuring a world premiere of Liam Scarlett's Hummingbird, as well as the memorable Suite en Blanc and The Fifth Season.

****1

Ballet in a Splendid Setting: English National Ballet at St Paul's Cathedral

Hanna Weibye, 3rd July

To sit directly under the splendid chiaroscuro dome of St Paul's Cathedral, with angels, apostles and Christ himself glittering down from mosaiced arches, is to be in the middle of astonishing beauty.

***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.