Firecrackers at the 15th Ballet Icons Gala

By Margaret Willis, 28 January 2020

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“Ekaterina Krysanova and Artem Ovcharenko... composure, aristocratic bearing and Fabergé daintiness”

Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 26 January 2020

Grand Pas Classique (Victor Gsovsky)

Diamonds (George Balanchine)

Finding Light (Edwaard Liang)

Giselle (Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot)

Frida (Annabelle Lopez Ochoa)

Carmen Suite (Alberto Alonso)

Don Quixote (Marius Petipa)

Once with (Jason Kittelberger)

Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj)

Elegie (Giuseppe Picone)

The Sleeping Beauty (Marius Petipa)

Dust (Akram Khan)

Le Corsaire (Anna-Marie Holmes, Marius Petipa, Konstantin Sergeyev)

Valery Ovsyanikov, Conductor

Ekaterina Kondaurova, Dancer

Timur Askerov, Dancer

Alyona Kovalyova, Dancer

Xander Parish, Dancer

Lucía Lacarra, Dancer

Matthew Golding, Dancer

Yasmine Naghdi, Dancer

Marcelino Sambé, Dancer

Maia Makhateli, Dancer

James Stout, Dancer

Maria Alexandrova, Dancer

Vladislav Lantratov, Dancer

Nicoletta Manni, Dancer

Julian MacKay, Dancer

Natalia Osipova, Dancer

Jason Kittelberger, Dancer

Vittoria Valerio, Dancer

Claudio Coviello, Dancer

Luisa Ieluzzi, Dancer

Giuseppe Picone, Dancer

Ekaterina Krysanova, Dancer

Artem Ovcharenko, Dancer

Erina Takahashi, Dancer

James Streeter, Dancer

Iana Salenko, Dancer

Daniil Simkin, Dancer

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Margaret Willis

Margaret studied ballet in Moscow for five years and later was a member of London City Ballet. A reviewer since 1978 for many newspapers and magazines including Dancing Times and Dance Magazine, Margaret is a specialist on Russian Ballet, and has written books on Russian Ballet and Carlos Acosta.