Royal Ballet Flanders: it's either bemusing or brilliant!

Royal Ballet Flanders in Jermaine Spivey's Extant

Royal Ballet Flanders in William Forsythe's One Flat Thing, reproduced

Royal Ballet Flanders in Crystal Pite's Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue

By Jonathan Gray, 05 June 2023

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“they make exaggerated shapes with their bodies or manically slap their own faces in unison”

Reviewed at Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerp, Antwerp on 3 June 2023

One flat thing reproduced (William Forsythe)

Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue (Crystal Pite)

Extant (Jermaine Spivey)

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Jermaine Spivey, Set Designer, Lighting Designer

Linda Chow, Costume Designer

Jim French, Lighting Designer

Marquet K. Lee, Costume Designer

Koen Bollen, Dramaturgy

William Forsythe, Set Designer, Lighting Designer

Stephen Galloway, Costume Designer

Kirsten Wicklund, Dancer

Austin Meiteen, Dancer

Clàudia Gil Cabús, Dancer

Claudio Cangialosi, Dancer

Shane Urton, Dancer

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Jonathan Gray

Jonathan Gray was born in Wales and studied at The Royal Ballet School, Leicester Polytechnic and Wimbledon School of Art. He was a member of the curatorial department of The Theatre Museum, London, from 1989 until 2005, and was editor of Dancing Times from 2008 until its closure in 2022.