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Oeuvre: Like Water for Chocolate

Rechercher des événements de musique classique, opéra et ballet
Fichier de données
CompositeurTalbot, Joby
ÉpoqueContemporain
Année2022
Type d'œuvreDanse
Critiques récentesEn voir plus...

The Royal Ballet’s Like Water for Chocolate is sumptuous but complex

Francesca Hayward as Tita and Marcelino Sambé as Pedro in Wheeldon's Like Water for Chocolate © Foteini Christofilopoulou
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.

American Ballet Theatre's Like Water for Chocolate nails the climax

SunMi Park as Tita and Daniel Camargo as Pedro in Christopher Wheeldon's Like Water for Chocolate © Marty Sohl

Wheeldon’s choreography eschews the sweep and expanse of classical ballet for gravity-succumbing floor rolls and lots of twirling, swirling and swishy port de bras.

Like Water For Chocolate: frustratingly earthbound

Cassandra Trenary and Herman Cornejo in Christopher Wheeldon's Like Water for Chocolate © Marty Sohl
Wheeldon lacks the imagination to take this story beyond that of a well-crafted adaptation of a beloved movie.