Love across time and cultures: Clorinda Agonistes at Sadler's Wells

Clorinda Agonistes

Jemima Brown, Emily Thompson-Smith, Harriet Waghorn and Ellen Yilma

Jonathan Goddard and Ed Lyon

By Graham Watts, 11 September 2022

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“Jeyasingh’s distinctive choreography... went way beyond just illustrating the music”

Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 9 September 2022

Clorinda Agonistes (Shobana Jeyasingh)

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance

Merle Hensel, Set Designer

Jonathan Goddard, Dancer

Jemima Brown, Dancer

Ed Lyon, Tenor

Dima Orsho, Soprano

Emily Thompson-Smith, Dancer

Harriet Waghorn, Dancer

Ellen Yilma, Dancer

Precipice at The Grange Festival: a mirror of our times

David Karlin, 22nd August

Michael Chance takes the audience around The Grange in a thoughtful show combining opera excerpts, dance, acrobats, vocal and instrumental music.

****1

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance: Bayadère – The Ninth Life

Graham Watts, 16th October

A radical and challenging new look at La Bayadère that has the well-worn familiarity of something borrowed but also brings a distinctively and refreshingly new perspective

***11

Rambert: Murder, Mystery and A Party

John O'Dwyer, 10th May

Ninety years since it was founded, Rambert continues to bring varied and challenging dance styles to Sadler's Wells.

***11

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance's Bayadère - The Ninth Life

Graham Watts, 25th March

Unlocking a fascinating new angle on the legend behind the classical ballet.

***11

Thierry Pécou, historien des lions à l'Opéra national du Rhin

Jean Landras, 25th September

La création mondiale d'Until the Lions de Thierry Pécou à l'Opéra national du Rhin bénéficie d'une belle distribution et de la direction attentive de Marie Jacquot, mais ne convainc pas entièrement.

***11

The Trocks at Sadler’s Wells: uproariously entertaining

Graham Watts, 5th May

A very welcome and hilarious return to the UK from Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, this time at Sadler’s Wells, they offer familiar and new works.

****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.