Pita's Little Match Girl

By Graham Watts, 15 December 2016

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“Pita has turned the essence of Andersen’s tale into a visually appealing spectacle”

Reviewed at Sadler's Wells: Lilian Baylis Studio, London on 14 December 2016

The Little Match Girl (Arthur Pita)

Next Generation Festival: Rambert School impresses throughout

Graham Watts, 1st July

A show where the whole School was the star.

****1

English National Ballet School embraces the unconventional

Deborah Weiss, 19th June

English National Ballet School Professional Trainees show great versatility in their final performance of the year, with a highly entertaining mixed programme.

****1

Pita’s disturbing take on Hans Christian Andersen’s grim fairy-tale

Sarah Kirkup, 20th June

Natalia Osipova and Jonathan Goddard excel in the gothic drama of Pita’s storytelling – but is it all just a bit too gory?

***11

ABT's Whiteside and Trenary star in Pita's The Tenant at The Joyce

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 10th November

The single best thing about The Tenant was Frank Moon’s score, played by Moon himself on the piano, violin, and singing.

***11

Ballet Black: a contrasting bill of Shakespearian envy and whimsy

Kirsty Morgan, 8th June

Ballet Black delights the Glasgow Tramway with a contrasting double-bill of Shakespearian envy and whimsy.

****1

The final program in SF Ballet's Unbound festival

Jaime Robles, 26th April

Most of the pieces were choreographed at a similarly demanding level, with speed, precision and immaculate timing as necessities.

****1

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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.

Arthur Pita's The Little Match Girl