With many new full-length dance works to look out for in the new season, we preview several anticipated new creations from leading choreographers – including a number with newly commissioned scores.
Miyako Yoshida talks about her deep connection to Giselle, bringing her own production to London with the National Ballet of Japan, and the challenges of being an artistic director.
Encompassing over 500 interviews with people involved in the dance world, Voices of British Ballet aims to preserve important oral testimony from people instrumental to the development of ballet in the UK.
The original cast of principals – and current interpreters – discuss the joys of working with the late choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, and the great legacy he has left to today’s dancers.
Zurich sees an impressive 11 new opera and 5 new dance productions in 2024–25, including two world premieres, marking the departure of intendant Andreas Homoki after 13 years at the house.
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.
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