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Unlocking new angles on a classic: Shobana Jeyasingh Dance's Bayadère - The Ninth Life

By Graham Watts, 26 March 2015
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Reviewed at Royal Opera House: Linbury Theatre, London on 25 March 2015
Programme
Bayadère - The Ninth Life (Shobana Jeyasingh)
Performers
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance
Adam Wiltshire, Set Designer
Sunbee Han, Dancer
Avatâra Ayuso, Dancer
Sooraj Subramaniam, Dancer
Noora Kela, Dancer
Fabiana Piccioli, Lighting Designer
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Graham Watts
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.