Dancing Bach: The Mikhailovsky Ballet's powerful contemporary face in London

By Cristina de Lucas, 08 April 2013

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Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 5 April 2013

Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness (Nacho Duato)

Mikhailovsky Ballet

Marat Shemiunov, Dancer

Sabina Yapparova, Dancer

Polina Semionova, Dancer

São Paulo Dance Company: a sensational London debut

Deborah Weiss, 9th February

If you’re in need of some joy and exhilaration, the São Paulo Dance Company offers the perfect solution at Sadler's Wells.

*****

Petipa Awards Gala: thrilling theatrics and star turns!

Margaret Willis, 23rd September

A shimmering smorgasbord of some of today’s most exciting international dancers, who performed pristine works by Petipa.

****1

Polina and Friends gala wins Berlin balletomanes

Katja Vaghi, 17th May

Organised by Berlin State Ballet audience’s darling, the principal dancer Polina Semionova, the gala Polina & Friends and its stellar cast literally left the house roaring from enthusiasm.

*****

Duato | Shechter in Berlin

Katja Vaghi, 6th November

Duato | Shechter by the Staatsballett Berlin at the Komische Oper is a classic yet sleekly contemporary programme.

***11

Danse Danse brings the Brazilians

Rebecca Galloway, 28th April

São Paulo Companhia de Dança presents a mixed programme of works by Edouard Lock, Jomar Mesquita and Nacho Duato at the Théâtre Maisonneuve in Montréal

***11

Hong Kong Ballet visits NY

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 16th March

The program that the Hong Kong Ballet presented at the Joyce Theater showed a company that is disciplined and technically accomplished.

***11

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Cristina de Lucas

After a career in the legal field where she combined her job as an Attorney at Law with collaborative roles in various local and international cultural enterprises, Cristina de Lucas turned to dance research and criticism in 2009, when she moved to London. She obtained her doctorate from the Department of Dance at the University of Roehampton (London). Her fully-funded thesis focused on the confluence between dance and narrative in the repertory of the British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan. Her research has received several awards, such a full Vice-Chancellor scholarship and the 2014 SDHS Graduate Student Travel Grant. She also reviews dance and cinema, contributing regularly to several publications in Spain and UK.