Pictures at an exhibition: Ballet Pécs premieres Vasarely Etudes

Par Graham Watts, 02 juin 2021

Chargement en cours, veuillez patienter...

Voir le listing complet

Critique faite à Müpa: Festival Theatre, Budapest, le 28 mai 2021

Vasarely Etudes (world premiere) (Balázs Vincze, Katalin Ujvári, Molnár Zsolt)

Ballet Pécs

Balázs Cziegler, Décors

Fruzsina Nagy, Costumes

Miklós Hepkó, Lumières

Balázs Vincze, Lumières

Iván Kamarás, Danse

Atilla Kiss B, Danse

Teodóra Uhrik, Danse

Éva Vári, Danse

Anna Györfi, Voix

Tamás Kéméndi, Accordéon

An homage to Wilhelmine von Bayreuth with Hasse's Artaserse

Orsolya Gyárfás, 21st April

In a pasticcio of Hasse’s Artaserse and Ezio, director Balázs Kovalik and the students of the Theaterakademie August Everding stage the life of Wilhelmine von Bayreuth.

***11

Theme and Variations / Études opens in Budapest

Graham Watts, 17th November

A double bill that focuses on the purity of classical ballet form, in a fine combined 70th Anniversary celebration, excellently performed by Hungarian National Ballet.

***11

Three shades of Hans van Manen

Jade Larine, 20th October

Now an ever-developing city, Budapest has become much more than faded grandeur, actually, and the Hungarian National Ballet’s recent moves reflect just that

****1

Duetti d'amore - Sabadus and Baráth explore baroque rarities in Budapest

Nahoko Gotoh, 4th March

Every early music festival these days needs one or more star countertenors in their programme. At this year’s Müpa Budapest’s Régizene Fesztival, Valer Barna-Sabadus was featured together with homegrown soprano Emöke Bárath.

*****

L'énergie brute de Shechter II dans In the Brain aux Abbesses

Julie Jozwiak, 3rd April

La jeune troupe d'Hofesh Shechter montre tout son immense talent, dans un formidable élan de libération des pulsions et des êtres comme ils sont.

*****

(La) Horde tape dans le mille avec Roommates au Centquatre

Julie Jozwiak, 2nd April

Dans le cadre du festival Séquence Danse, le Ballet national de Marseille et son collectif de directeurs artistiques ont proposé un spectacle ambitieux et intelligent en six temps.

****1

Plus de critiques...

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.